I just love synchronicity.
Twitter today brought me to this blog post on creativity
The post talks about how to encourage creativity in your classroom. Some tips include
Let the students sleep on it.
Interruptions can impede creativity so warn students when you are going to interrupt them so they can finish their thoughts.
Consolidate learning objectives into multi-disciplinary projects so they are not impeded by having to concentrate on too many things at once.
My favorite tip is to empower students to brainstorm projects for you and solve them together. This can raise self esteem and increase student engagement as they become invested in their resolutions.
I’d also like to add that lack of resources can induce more creativity. We have a large lack of resources, so plenty of opportunity for creative solutions, brought about together with the students.
For example, yesterday, while visiting another school’s language class in a well -equipped language lab, the class was listen to a prompt and responding. Students were working individually and the teacher could listen in.
On my return to our school I was teaching a class of spanish students who were using photostory3(free) to illustrate and record their spanish fairy tales. Students were showing each other their movies, they were checking their pronunciation with each other, and helping each other out with moving files around. Students were working on them at home and interest was high. Less resources, more creativity?
The John Cleese video that inspired this post is here
Thanks to Wes Fryer Speed of Creativity blog post too.
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