Creativity and Imagination

 Creativity?

 Imagination?
 Creativity
Having good ideas and making them happen or
putting imagination to work.

 Imagination
Imagination gives us the ability to think beyond our
own experiences. It allows us to wonder what might
be, and to liberate our minds
 Teaching for Creativity
Emphasizes the role of the teacher in fostering
students’ creative learning. Providing the relationship,
environment, resources, challenges, planning and
structure to empower students.

 Creative Teaching
Teachers’ own creative processes, finding ways of
making learning exciting and engaging for the
students
 5 + 5 = 10

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Thinking  Imagination  Creativity

 Creative Capacities
 Questioning and Challenging

 Making connections and seeing relationships

 Envisaging (predicting/foreseeing) what might be

 Exploring ideas and keeping options open

 Reflecting critically on ideas, actions and

outcomes
 Creative Capacities
 Questioning and Challenging

• Asking ‘Why? How? What if?’

• Responding to ideas, questions, tasks or problems in

an unusual way
• Asking unusual questions

• Challenging conventions and assumptions

• Thinking independently
 Creative Capacities(cont.)
 Making connections and seeing relationships

• Recognizing the significance of knowledge or previous

experience

• Reinterpreting and applying learning in new contexts.

• Communicating ideas in novel or unexpected ways

 Creative Capacities(cont.)
 Envisaging (predicting/foreseeing) what might be

• Imagining and seeing in the mind’s eye

• Asking ‘what if?’

• Visualizing alternatives

• Seeing possibilities, problems, and challenges

• Looking at and thinking about things differently and

from different point of view
 Creative Capacities(cont.)
 Exploring ideas and keeping options open

• Playing with ideas and experimenting

• Responding intuitively and trusting intuition

• Keeping an open mind, adapting and modifying ideas

to achieve creative results

• Trying alternative and fresh approaches

• Overcoming difficulties, following through ideas

 Creative Capacities(cont.)
 Reflecting critically on ideas, actions and outcomes

• Playing with ideas and experimenting

• Responding intuitively and trusting intuition

• Keeping an open mind, adapting and modifying ideas to

achieve creative results

• Trying alternative and fresh approaches

• Overcoming difficulties, following through ideas

 Activity
 Draw a human figure, in groups.
Observer’s Task
 Writing Action and Reflection
What was the action going through during the activity
and your reflections on that according to creative
thinking capacities
Observer’s Task(cont.)
 What happened

 What creative learning did you see or experience?

 What were the challenges of observing it?

 What were the challenges of understanding it?

 What did it suggest to you about individual and group

creativity?

 If you had to do it all again, what would you do differently?

 Planning an activity
 Teacher knowledge

What would I need to know to help my students

 Preparation for lessons

What will I need to get ready for this lesson/project- resources,

people, trips etc
 Expectation and challenges for pupils

Creative learning objectives of the work. To what extent am I

going to lead the learning and how much the students?
 Planning

How much I plan in advance, specially if children are leading.

 Planning an activity(cont.)
 Teacher Role

To what extent can I stand back and when should I intervene.

 Organization and Resources

What resources will I need and how will I structure them.

 Behavior Management

Strategies to manage relationships with students, and students’

behavior.
 Assessment

How will I know if this work is helping the students to develop

capacity to learn.
  The Teaching Challenge
Teaching Creatively:
Make it as interesting as you can
Teaching for Creative Learning:
Design it so the students doo the most of the work-
thinking, researching, working out, presenting
• The Context Challenge
The Environment:
Classroom and immediate learning environment
Resources:
Thinking about the resources available
 PMI
 P: Plus

 M: Minus

 I: Interesting

P: Positive points of an activity, M: Negative aspects of

activity, I: What was interesting in the activity
 Questions
 Have you understood creativity and imagination better

after this lesson?

 Do you implement creativity in your own teaching?

 Will it be easy for you to implement creativity in your

lessons after the lesson? How?

 Is creativity and imagination practiced at your school?