Comments on: 10 ways to teach creativity in the classroom https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/08/10-ways-to-teach-creativity-in-the-classroom/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: omvishnu.com https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/08/10-ways-to-teach-creativity-in-the-classroom/#comment-945277 omvishnu.com Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:48:15 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5477#comment-945277 Anything that rewards student curiosity can feed creativity.

]]> By: Rhonda Howard https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/08/10-ways-to-teach-creativity-in-the-classroom/#comment-814217 Rhonda Howard Sun, 17 May 2015 17:20:28 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5477#comment-814217 The UK is not alone. In the US, standardized testing drives the plot. No longer do teachers have the time or support for creativity.

You are right Paul, about the avalanche of paperwork and assessment. Writing lesson plans, charting standards, LEARNING new standards, documenting formative assessments for individuals and the class as a whole, preparing for summative assessments, testing in the fall and again in the spring, recording grades, making sure we have everything necessary for our teaching evaluation systems, etc; the list is unending and overwhelming.

As a middle school LA teacher, you can add continual essays to respond to with helpful feedback in a timely manner. I look for ways to add CHOICE to my lessons, but TEACHING creativity, fostering imagination, showing appreciation for thinking outside the box… There does not ever seem to be enough time, and after that avalanche of paperwork, not enough energy.

I constantly feel as if I must be doing something wrong, or I am not using my time well, and this is with 29 years of experience.

Then we are vilified by the public, the powers above, and the media.

When my students walk in the door, I am “on” for them, I respond to their needs, and that leaves little time for the creativity we really should value at this time. The jobs and careers our students will have when they graduate will certainly not be standardized; we are doing a poor job preparing them for them for the kind of thinking they will need in order to be successful in the future.

But I know that in just one or two more election cycles (Douglas Reeves), someone will come to understand this, and then teachers will once again be blamed for how we have been teaching. And the pendulum swings again.

I think it is Rick Wormelli who pointed out that although the pendulum WILL swing, we collectively have more information/knowledge each cycle.

Wormelli is a big proponent of teaching students to think metaphorically. That is one easy way to foster creative thinking in the classroom, though he suggests we can be more strategic about it.

I hope I didn’t hijack this topic… I did manage to bring my ranting back to the idea of creativity though.

Keep doing the HARD work!

]]> By: Carol Humphreys https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/08/10-ways-to-teach-creativity-in-the-classroom/#comment-814000 Carol Humphreys Sun, 17 May 2015 07:25:06 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5477#comment-814000 Where does the teaching of creativity in the classroom really start? Let’s start with state education and standardised testing and Ofsted and performance management … Now, if they could all be linked to supporting teachers and helping them to promote the teaching of creativity in lessons, well, then we’d have a reinvigorated education system with teachers enthusiastic and willing to take these kinds of risks.

]]> By: Paul A. https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/08/10-ways-to-teach-creativity-in-the-classroom/#comment-807907 Paul A. Sat, 09 May 2015 22:46:45 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5477#comment-807907 Unfortunately the UK education system is oriented towards paperwork rather than the students. It would be great to be fostering creativity, but someone needs to tackle the growing avalanche of paperwork and asessment that buries the enthusiasm of teachers to innovate.

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