In the best classrooms, a teacher should allow the student to move between gathering knowledge, memorising and synthesizing to problem-solving. This comes from teaching with imagination and encouraging students to learn in the same way. However, Uteach knows that between the stress of keeping up with the school curriculum, meeting with parents and running daily classes, it can be hard to make time for creativity and imagination in the classroom. With such little time to spare, it can be easy to think—does it really make a difference?
We can only teach with it so that students use it as a tool to get from point A to point B on their own. Creative classrooms allow students to express their ideas freely, think outside the box and learn faster and more effectively. Imagination drives human discovery, so incorporating it into your classroom prepares students for a future of creating innovative solutions.
You could incorporate word games, puns and riddles, solve-the-mystery stories and lateral thinking puzzles to your lesson plans. Or even better, get the students to make their own. This has a whole range of benefits to your students. Reflective activities offer students an opportunity to understand information better—improving their creative and contextual understanding of the content. When reflective learning exercises are displayed visually in the classroom, they become of benefit not only to those who share them but to every student in your class.
Move your desks around, or allow students to move into different groups and partners. Stifling creativity leads to problems in the classroom. Bored students stop learning: they act out, drift off, or shut down.
Within teach for the test, learning by memorization, and standardized curriculum, we have lost imagination and creativity. Students have learned to follow by rote and perform rather than ask and explore. Getting creative does not have to cost money. Creativity is not going to take away from what we are paid to do. In the end, it will pay off, with happier students who are actually learning in a healthy environment.
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Voices in Education. December 17, Our Imagination Changes Imagine is organic; it grows as our knowledge grows. Recognizing the Economic Value of Imagination One of the tragedies of traditional education is that it was designed for the industrial age. Ways to Improve these Creative Abilities in Young Minds Place an increased focus on multi-disciplinary thinking, where students are taught to make cross-curricular links and see problems from different angles and contexts.
Encourage students to not be passive consumers of information but to be involved in creative processes as active doers, using the knowledge they gain to actively solve problems. Provide forums for other imagination-enabling activities. These can include self-reflection, creative writing, listening to inspiring non-lyrical music, immersing oneself in creative films or books, and so on. Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge By getting ahead in the imagination age, our students can shape the future.
Encourage Asking, Exploring and Doing Stifling creativity leads to problems in the classroom. Next Post. This flies in the face of some common wisdom about how to encourage creativity.
Take brainstorming. Many believe it works best when no idea, however far-fetched, will be criticised. She found that encouraging people to debate ideas and even criticise them during a brainstorm generates more useful ideas than when criticism is off the table. But if there are genuine problems with an idea they should be discussed.
Should schools encourage unfettered creative activities among pupils? So what does all this mean for schools? Should we throw out the textbooks and rote learning that are used to prepare students for standardised tests?
Encourage children to let their minds wander rather than concentrate in the classroom? For instance, no one in creativity research argues that children should give free rein to their imagination at the cost of understanding a subject. Read more in the Future Education series. Can you learn to be creative? Share using Email. By Colin Barras 14th March Is creativity magical? Not according to those now teaching it as a skill, discovers Colin Barras.
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