Creativity In The Classroom Analysis

In a society where everything is constantly shifting and changing, it is essential for education to move away from teaching facts and figures to educating to inspire curiosity and creativity. The need for creativity in the classroom matters more than ever in our society. "Creativity is no longer seen as just being for artists and musicians .It's a crucial skill for everybody to master. "the following three articles were elaborated critique Department thinking, creativity and observation of contact,

For the entirety of the fall semester, I took on a project to create a three-page layout for a fictional campaign in National Geographic magazine about endangered species. The goal was to create different content for my portfolio, challenging my skills in photography and photo-manipulation. I transformed people into animals and used gel lighting and Photoshop to create my artwork (see Appendix A figure 1 & 2). At the end of the semester, I reviewed my completed pieces and two theorists best fit my creative process, Julie Burstein, and Teresa Amabile. Julie Burstein discusses the best way to foster creativity is by ‘letting go’ she outlines this in four lessons (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). These lessons include experiences, challenges, limitations and loss (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). While Teresa Amabile discusses how the theory of creativity is fostered through her componential model of creativity (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). These include domain-relevant skills, creative thinking skills and motivation (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). Both of these theorists go hand in hand providing me with the framework for my best work. This essay will discuss how Amabile’s theory for intrinsic motivation and Burstein’s lesson of experience and loss, align in my creative process to be conducive to my work.

Creativity is all about the 21st century skills and the future students. One form of creativity they will use is brainstorming. It includes elaborating, analyzing refining, and evaluating ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts (Syrett, 2002). Creativity involves originality, and working with peers to come up with ideas. It will allow you to fail and work on what went wrong and recreate it. They will have the tools that are needed to be creative. Creativity is an important aspect for every student to

Creativity in the Classroom is an article written by Nicholas Provenzano that was published on the George Lucas Educational Foundation website in June of 2015 that is meant to assist teachers in combining creative arts in their general education curriculum. Provenzano addresses the common concern that teachers share pertaining to the lack of room for creativity in an education that revolves around standardized testing by offering three specific strategies. The first of these techniques is what he calls “open-ended projects”. Provenzano explains that the teacher provides students with a topic and has them prepare presentations that they feel suit them best as well as the rubric they would be graded by, which has resulted (for him personally)

Creativity is equally as important as literacy, and we need to start treating it that way in schools around the world. According to Ken Robinson’s claim in his, “How Schools Kill Creativity” speech, he believes this to be exceptionally true. All children are creative and talented, however, we have grown up in a world where we believe that it’s wrong to exemplify our creativity. Robinson uses both, pathos, and ethos to help make his claim. He arises emotion in you; he causes you to really think, to trust him, and to question ultimately, how things are being done in the educational system. We as a world have become so consumed with the idea of putting each child into a category of what they’re going to be successful in, regardless of their creativity or passions. You’re either good at math, science, or English; everything is based on your academic ability. What happens then to the people who aren’t academically smart, but are more creative? They are then made to feel that what they have to offer the world simply isn’t good enough, but the truth is, it is good enough. Over time however, we are taught out of our creativity. Schools around the world kill creativity by instilling a sense of fear in the child that what they are doing, and how they feel is wrong, this ultimately discourages them, and they fall victim to the industrialized educational system that we have present day. Robinson believes now more than

My husband is the school superintendent for a small school district in Oilton. With all of the budget cuts it is unfortunate that art education has become a thing of the past. We have always sent our daughter to private voice, acting, and dance lessons and she has been involved with community theater since she was small. She will study Theater as her minor as she enters college this August. Unfortunately, this is a luxury that 99% of the children of Oilton will never be able to experience. However, with projects such as The Creative Classroom, the opportunity for learning through the arts can, once again, become a reality.

“On Defining Creativity” is a dry and scholarly article written to persuade readers’ views regarding usage of the terms “creative” and “creativity.” The article is convincing, and uses logical reasoning combined with etymology to craft an argument. “How ‘Rock Star’ Became a Business Buzzword” is an observation (rather than an attempt to redefine a word like “On Defining Creativity”) that is entertaining and well-supported. Both articles are convincing in their own respects, each employing different techniques. However, the articles do not make conclusive statements: “On Defining Creativity” ends in a multitude of questions and a call for more thought on the term “creativity,” and “How ‘Rock Star’ Became a Business Buzzword” ends with a tale

The Industrial Revolution was one of the most significant developments in America History; it was the era in which the country supplanted itself as one of the world’s leaders. It is no surprise than that the education system still reflects that era. That is to say that the education system promotes knowledge in math and reading and not skills. Frederick Taylor calls it scientific management, that practice of educating students in order to succeed in America’s new factory oriented economy. This thought has been echoed in the present day by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, well-known entrepreneur and multi-billionaire, who has said knowledge workers are needed to make America more competitive on the global scene. In a similar way the Bush administration in 2001 launched the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA), which essentially made the function of the American education system based on standardized testing. The overarching idea of the act was to make reading and math the most important subjects in school while testing them continuously. This is a dangerous precedent because students have been turned into test taking robots, incapable of creating new and meaningful ideas. Without creativity students will lose the motivation to learn, or even attend school. Students already lack the will to be in school each day and by focusing solely on teaching toward the test it is easy to estimate this will only get worse. Since the focus is on testing

Change, creativity and innovation are essential elements for survival and growth of an organization. Creativity is vital for the birth of fresh and beneficial ideas. Creative thinking allows groups and individuals to solve problems or stimulate to think differently in order to bring forth fruitful ideas. The above mentioned creative thinking enabled our team of six different personalities to come together and implement a plan to solve a complex problem in a hospital. Our assigned task was to recommend a plan in order to alleviate hospital readmission among elderly population within thirty days of discharge. In this paper the author is narrating the team dynamics, functionalities and personal competencies in the process of recommending a change in the system. As a member in the innovation leadership team the author is also reflecting on the assessment, capacity for innovation in the organization which is the hospital where the team is assigned.

Consider the educationalist professor Sir Ken Robinson's words "If you are not prepared to fail, you can't be original" (Ted). By saying this he had defended that people need to be brave, and then he adds that today's education system leads students to a certain and specific way. So students don't have a chance to fail because they have nothing to do by their own. If a student ignores the system, he will be a uneducated person, in general uneducated people has less value in today's society. Otherwise, if he accepts it, and goes where system leads, he will lose his creativity. To be accomplished in this life, education is one of the most important things. That means you need to be successful in your education life, and as Sir Ken Robinson said: "Failing is the worst thing a student can do in this system" (Ted). If you fail, people will just stigmatize you. So today's education system and situations in life kills the creativity.

Conventional wisdom has it that concepts of creativity include art, dance, and literature; but, the core of creativity focuses on creating something new. The comprehension of creativity and its importance in education allows one to maintain better problem solving skills, remain innovative, and excel beyond the years of ordinary schooling (“Creativity and Education”). Cognitive psychologist Jean Piaget once said, “The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done”. Two recent articles discuss and challenge this issue. The first, Mr. Secomb’s article, “The Seeds of Growth: Why Creativity is Important in Education”, was originally published in his school newsletter and later appeared April of 2013 in the blog “Inquire Within” where “educators from around the world share their thoughts”(“About”). In this article, Secomb argues that creativity is a multi-step process part of a bigger goal: innovation throughout the world. The second article, Dr. Kitchen’s, “The Importance of Creativity in Education Technology”, was published April of 2015 in ETS Magazine, otherwise known as “Education Technology Solutions”. Kitchen argues that school systems are too similar to what they have been in the past, which is hindering students’ creative and critical skills in the education process. Although the author of “The Seeds of

Being one of the key words for successful, “creativity” becomes increasingly vital in different industries to keep competitive within the region or over the world. As the Crafts Council of England stated, "There are few areas of life where the nation 's priorities for education, health, employment and industry are not dependent on the development and application of creative practical skills." (quoted in Joubert & Green, 1999). In order to be more competitive in the future cultural and economic field, UK government believe that “creativity can be developed” (ibid.) through creative education, which could help to inspire young people’s imagination, innovation, and interaction. However, creativity can be understood and carried out in diverse

Creativity is the ability to produce work which is both original and unexpected design .Creativity is a wide scope which is important at both individual and societal level for a wide range of task domain at an individual level of creativity which is relevant to our idea. When you are solving your problem on particular job in your daily life activities, with your creativity idea can lead you to new finding movement to innovate the job you want to create. One of the most important aspects of creativity is the economic aspect of it, create lot of job opportunity and produce lot of products and service for individual an the government

Description: Pre-K Creativity is a weekly program that will mix a traditional preschool story time with an art project. This program will be targeted to preschool aged children and their caretakers.

Creative thinking is what controls our today’s imaginative economy and industrial advancements in our nation and all of the damaging issues. Our society is in need of creativity and people who need to be informed of how important it is to have creativity. It is important to bring creativity into school classrooms, to apply them and teach them because our economy is dependent on new ideas, new thoughts, and new creations. The latest lack in creativity can be solved in several steps. The authors, Bronson and Merryman, state our students (kindergarten to 6th grade) are declining and it is most serious right now, along with the “potential consequences that will come along with this impact.” This drop in “creativity quotient” is highly crucial to our economy and nation’s future. I would have to argue to bring back creativity in classrooms due to “creativity quotient steadily creeping down.” Teaching creativity in classrooms could help bring up this huge decrease and eventually start creating new, original student ideas.