lunes, 3 de octubre de 2011
Teaching creativity
What really called my attention from the video and what I have the opportunity to experiment it every day, was the fact that children have an extraordinary capacity. It is easier for teachers to subestimate our students, because we don't need to plan challenging lessons, but we have to be aware of that creative capacity and give them the opportunities to grow from there. We must help their inteligences to develop in a creative way.
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I agree with you! One thing that called my attention was that the lecturer considered creativity as important as literacy. I would have never considered both elements at the same level!
ResponderEliminarBut now that I think about it, creativity is what makes children (and people) be unique and irreplacable to society. Creative people are the ones who solve the problems society has (I´m thinking of un Techo para Chile, Belén Educa, Telet{on, etc)
I also agree with you. I think that many times we do not consider our students' ways of learning and their creativity because it is much easier for us to plan a lesson in a more uniform way. It is difficult to plan a lesson taking into account all the different capacities and styles of our students, but I think that a good teacher must do it. Even if it is longer and taugher than doing it the easy way.
ResponderEliminarEvery time when I watch these type of videos I feel the need to change everything that I am doing. It is relevant to reflect about it because, as you said, it is easier to plan a lesson which covers the majority of the students. But we have to CREATE activities where they are challenged and they have to work with CREATIVITY. At the end, both students and teachers are developing imagination.
ResponderEliminarAs we normally have too many things to do creativity is left aside and to check classwork it is sometimes easier to check similar answers in the students´notebooks.Sometimes we need to forget our plans and encourage our students to participate with their creations and inventions.I think that those are the long-lasting things we never forget.
ResponderEliminarIt is true, we are all unique, and there must be a reason for that. Probably we all have something important to contribute with, and the ways in which we do this doesn't necesarily have to be similar to other's.In fact most of what's been great, contributions or pieces of art, has come from the side in which things are done differently. Besides being and doing things "normal" is overrated. And on the other hand, who is "normal" anyway? Maybe we just don't know our students that much to make the most of their potential. Again, beign a teacher is a challenge!
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