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Creativity is an integral element of any primary classroom. It has been never more important for teachers to involve children in their own learning and provide a curriculum that motivates and engages. Being creative involves generating new ideas, reflecting upon and evaluating different teaching approaches, and establishing an environment that supports creativity.
Creativity in the Primary Classroom explores how to develop as a creative teacher and how to foster creativity in your classes. Drawing from key literature and detailed real-life examples, Juliet Desailly puts into practice her extensive experience planning, advising and developing creative approaches to teaching and curriculum planning.
This book examines what creativity in a primary classroom can look like, and is supported throughout by practical activities for use across curriculum subjects and reflective tasks encouraging critical engagement with key conceptual issues.
This is essential reading for students on primary initial teacher education courses including undergraduate, graduate, and employment-based routes into teaching, and also for practicing teachers wishing to enhance their own teaching.
The Key Elements of Creativity
The Key Elements of Creativity
Learning objectives in this chapter:
- To understand the three different types of creativity in education
- To know how creativity has been defined
- To recognise the key elements of creativity
- To consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of a more creative approach in the classroom
Ask a group of teachers what they mean by creativity and you will get a huge variety of responses. Creativity means very different things to different people and in terms of the primary classroom, teachers can often find it hard to envisage what it actually looks like, let alone plan to encourage or foster it. This chapter will clarify the concepts so that we can be sure we are understanding creativity in the same way.
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