Creativity

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Creativity

• Alan Ogg
• HMIE

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Creativity - A national priority

• We need to encourage creativity and ambition
• (NP5 - Learning for Life)
• We need to develop the conditions in which
  creativity and innovation can flourish in all
  sectors of Scottish life (SEED 2000)
• We need to equip pupils with foundation skills,
  attitudes and expectations necessary to prosper
  in a changing society (SEED 2000)

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Requirements for Work in the Future

• Technological fluency 81
• Communication skills 74 (including
  skills of presentation)
• Collaborative skills 36
• Leadership 34
• Creativity 23

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Creativity in young people

• What is needed in our society is not more
  'creative people' - we need more people who are
  more conscious of, and confident about, their
  creativity.
• People who are
• aware of change, open to change
• flexible, able to adapt to new ways
• resilient in the face of obstacles

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How can we recognise creativity in the classroom?

• Not just the creative arts
• Creativity
• across a young person's programme of learning
• underpinning and enriching the way they are
  taught and the way they learn
• Creativity working in tandem with critical
  thinking

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Where to now?.

• There is no single definition of creativity,
  but...
• Do you recognise it when you see it? - Most
  people do!
• The best way to define creativity is to invent it
  yourself
• All of us in education need to play our part in
  establishing and nurturing it

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What can we do in our schools to encourage
creativity?

• Audit our programmes
• Initiate debate about learning
• Plan for progressive development but don't be too
  analytical or dwell too much on detail
• Plan for contexts, opportunities and activities
• Share and celebrate

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What can we be in our classrooms to encourage
creativity?

• Be models of creative behaviour
• Encouraging and supportive of young people
• Valuing different ways of thinking / doing
• Interacting with pupils
• Creating authentic contexts full of potential and
  energy
• Seeking to empower young people and make them
  responsible
• Holding them accountable

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The way ahead

• The principal goal of education is to create
  people who are capable of doing new things, not
  simply repeating what other generations have
  done...
• ...people who are creative, inventive
  discoverers.
• (Piaget)