Reading & Response: Creativity
Instructions
Part 1
Read/watch at least one article and one video found in the additional resources for Session 1 and create a reflective response to at least by integrating content from the two resources into one reflective narrative. Question prompts include:
How is the history of our education system evident today?
What does creativity mean to you?
What was your experience of creativity in the classroom in grade and middle school? How does that compare to what you are teaching?
What does creativity add to your classroom?
How do you see your students thriving when using creativity?
Are there systemic limitations within the school that lead to your not fully meeting the needs of your students?
If you could change anything about the limitations of the education system, what would it be and why?
Post these as a response below
Part 2
Find one of your colleagues posts that provokes a response in you. This response can be positive or negative, agreement or reflective.
Articles
Videos
Why schools need to embrace kids’ creativity - Sir Kenneth Robinson
Losing Ourselves - Rachel B. Wolfe
A student-directed documentary about how an expectation for perfection and a status-driven definition of success undermines students’ love of learning and creativity, gets in the way of our ability to use high school as an opportunity to figure out what we love and who we are, and turns our intrinsic motivation extrinsic.
