Creativity is defined as the ability to produce new and unique ideas that diverge from established customs and norms. Over the years, however, it has diminished greatly in today’s society. From a young age, schools as well as some business force people to learn certain skills in order to please others. For quite some time, colleges based a student’s intelligence on their GPA rather than creative abilities. Those who are creative are restricted in their abilities; it is acceptable for a mathematically inclined person to lack artistic skills, but heaven forbid a creative student find a science based class challenging. Currently, Academy School District 20 has not implemented a creative thinking class in Liberty High School. I believe we should include such a program, seeing that creativity in students continues to weaken nationwide. By requiring students to think creatively, we can encourage students to innovate, grow, and learn. Innovation would not be possible without …show more content…
As children continue their education, they are forced to suppress their creativity and strictly follow uniform ideas that have been used throughout generations. This concept leaves children no room for exploration despite its effectiveness in schools. Students need to learn that it is acceptable to solve problems using different methods. They must break free from the confines and uniform traditions of society; they must think for themselves. Countless novels and movies revolve around the idea of being unique and the importance of defying normality; however, its portrayal in real life is counterintuitive. The question remains: how can we depict a concept so universal without knowing how to first hand use it ourselves? Students need to learn that being unique is the first step to successes, and that creativity helps form a world of endless
In this age of high-stakes standardized testing the idea of creativity in the classroom has become less and less popular. Susan W. Cress and Daniel T. Holm present a compelling case study for keeping creativity in the classroom in “Creative Endeavors: Inspiring Creativity in a First Grade Classroom” published online April 1, 2015 in the Early Childhood Education Journal.
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
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
In chapter one, Isenberg and Jalongo (2018) defined creative behavior as original, relevant to the person and society, fluent, flexible, and serves a purpose, not only for the individual, but also for society. Children engage in many great assets of childhood such as sensitivity to stimuli, lack of inhabitation, and imagination. Through creative activities, children learn how to mentally visualize and explore original ideas, remain open to unique experiences, make thoughtful choices, persist at problem solving, develop skills in self-evaluation, communicate ideas with confidence, and use physical activity in support of creative potential (Isenberg and Jalongo, 2018). I learned that teachers play a major role in optimizing the creative potential in a child. Isenberg and Jalongo (2018) emphasized that effective teachers model creative thinking processes and positive attitude, teach children how to use the creative methods of various disciplines, and establish classrooms in which children
In Creative Schools, the second potential solution is the recognition of student’s unique abilities. A quote about this potential solution is, “All students are unique people with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as people is the heart of raising achievement” (Robinson and Aronica 56). This quote represents the main idea from this solution, recognizing and supporting the talents of students instead of shutting down their unique skills. The source of this factual evidence is the fact that all students are unique in one way or another. This reform an revolutionize the system and how students are perceived.
“Do Schools Kill Creativity?” by ken Robinson is a very powerful speech, as well as a good insight on the other side of the spectrum. Mr. Robinson begins his speech he mentions the amount of creativity we as humans have and how we have no such idea where we are headed in the future. Ken makes a point that we are educating and have been educating people to be prepared for the future. He asks why. We do not know what the next few years bring, how do we educate people properly for it. As Mr. Robinson continues he makes a point that creativity should be as important as literacy within education. Throughout the speech he gives countless examples where simple creativity and being different has brought people success and lead them down a path that math or literature never could.
Why do people need creativity when they are in school? Well it is the quality to come up with good ideas, have imagination and others.Core knowledge creativity are straightforward, expect to know they answer. We could say cheating but you have to have really good skills to cheat perfectly. In the documentary “Education” by Morgan Spurlock, In the chatterschool in new york or core knowledge school they only creativity the class has when someone have the right answer the clapy, snap finger or something else.But skill based measure to think critically for anything or just use your brain for something more meaningful.In the article “ we should cherish our children’s freedon to think”(ho,113), Ho supports one more detail on creative geography. Instead of memorizing the names of all main cities in the world, his son only drafted the map which demonstrates the route- including the names of the streets, and buildings- from his house to school, he was using his imagination meaning skill based
Although creativity is not seen as salient in America, it is critical to the stability of progress and resolution of problems; therefore, adults must provide children with more opportunities to innovate.
Today’s schools just aren’t cutting it for today’s developing society. Not all students are cut out to sit in a classroom for seven hours a day and sit through boring lectures. Not only are today’s schools not fit for most children, they are killing creativity and keeping students from expressing themselves and being curious about the world around them. With pressure from getting students prepared to take high-stakes test and preparing high school students for college and the future, schools are limiting creativity. “Creativity flourishes at the intersections of traditional disciplines, but traditional means of assessment often marginalize individuals working to define new and unique fields of endeavor. From the high-stakes tests in K-12, to the academic tenure clock, to the economy’s focus on short-term return on investments, American society’s reward structures tend to discourage unconventional thinking and limit risk-taking” (Gonchar, 2013). The real question here is are schools still providing young people with enough opportunities to show their creativity and to express themselves while fitting every student’s need for their future?
In “Do School’s Kill Creativity?” published on Ted.com on February 2016, speaker Ken Robinson questions the effectiveness of our education system to facilitate creativity. To support his position, first, Robinson explains how creative and talented every child is, and that the education system is “educating people out of that creativity”. Next, he explains how the world’s education systems place all the emphasis on subjects deemed as useful for employment and academic abilities; consequently, talented, and creative individuals believe they are not due to the schools not valuing or stigmatizing their talents. Finally, he speaks of intelligence, how diverse, dynamic, and distinct it is. Robinson ends with a statement that educators need to recognize children’s
Creativity is the base of human development. School’s were first created to help their people to be skillful and mentally capable to endure all problems. Times have changed and the morals of education have altered as well. In today’s world students from the U.S. are taught and pushed to memorize information instead of being pushed to learn how to think critically through it. Professor’s should emphasize more on the importance of ingenuity, than the importance of getting a good grade.
One consequence of America’s highly structured and rigid educational system is an evident limitation on creative processes. This is highlighted by Sir Ken Robinson in his speech, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” wherein he states that public education is build around the the process of university entrance. The result is that the interests and abilities of intelligent, creative students are overlooked, for the disciplines in which they excel are not sufficiently valued (Robinson). These circumstances perpetuate the growing stigmas around creativity, which Robinson defines as “the process of having original ideas that have value” (Robinson). By establishing a hierarchy of subjects, which places the arts, theatre and music at the bottom, American schools are hindering active learning and innovation. Thus, in regards to creativity, schools in the United States face severe shortcomings.
Creativity is the strongest part of the brain, and when one takes away the things that accentuate that, it can be very damaging. It would not only damage the students’ learning, but the American public and private schools as a
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
In some ways, I as an educator can foster creativity in the classroom by embracing each part of learning. Educators should showcase each students work on a bulletin board to embrace diversity and problem solving techniques (Lee, n.d.)