Creativity
To help students become more creative thinkers, I believe it's important to:
Working Towards Student Learning Goal: Creativity
One of my goals for my students is for them to improve in their creative thinking (as measured by high school’s Creativity Rubric) by the end of each course.
This is the form I've used to measure the creativity levels of students: Creativity Assessment Form.
Here's a presentation I designed for art faculty to work towards their goals of improving students’ abilities to think creatively. This presentation was shared with all Burlington K-12 art teachers. This is a low-resolution PDF copy of the original multimedia presentation on Learning Through Play and Fostering Creativity: Presentation: Creativity and Learning Through Play
You can visit my teaching pages at our Art & Design program website (Just scroll down and to the left for my own courses.) to view lessons and assignments that challenge students in their abilities to think creatively. You'll notice that the level of complexity and intellectual challenge increases as the year progresses, as does the open-endedness of the assignments.
Several pages on our BPS Art Teachers website are devoted to creativity.
We've developed District Determined Measures focused on creative thinking.
- communicate the characteristics of truly creative thinking to students;
- impress upon students the importance of them coming up with their own ideas and thinking for themselves;
- determine ways to reward imagination and creativity, and implement those in my teaching and assessment;
- provide rich feedback to students regarding their creativity and originality;
- promote and encourage self expression; and
- create lessons that focus on students’ personal experiences to encourage narrative voice.
Working Towards Student Learning Goal: Creativity
One of my goals for my students is for them to improve in their creative thinking (as measured by high school’s Creativity Rubric) by the end of each course.
This is the form I've used to measure the creativity levels of students: Creativity Assessment Form.
Here's a presentation I designed for art faculty to work towards their goals of improving students’ abilities to think creatively. This presentation was shared with all Burlington K-12 art teachers. This is a low-resolution PDF copy of the original multimedia presentation on Learning Through Play and Fostering Creativity: Presentation: Creativity and Learning Through Play
You can visit my teaching pages at our Art & Design program website (Just scroll down and to the left for my own courses.) to view lessons and assignments that challenge students in their abilities to think creatively. You'll notice that the level of complexity and intellectual challenge increases as the year progresses, as does the open-endedness of the assignments.
Several pages on our BPS Art Teachers website are devoted to creativity.
We've developed District Determined Measures focused on creative thinking.
