Creativity Restart
Some days, writing a blog is a huge step towards organizing your thoughts. Today is that day regarding creativity. This is one to print out and hang somewhere, as I plan the Innovative Arts curriculum for next year.
Ideally, a student learning all about creativity should be:
- ideating daily
- seeing the creative process in multiple times and ways
- doing one-day-builds as teams, with a framework to follow (at least at first)
- planning larger projects or leading their own one-day-builds
- seeing the context for these exercises and knowing why they’re ‘taking the reps’
- exploring materials or topics with creativity in mind
- relating back to the topic something they saw in a different context
- Responding to open-ended prompts
- Owning the class environment
- Ideating about their schoolwork for other subjects
- Explaining the process of creativity
- Free-form brainstorming
- Storytelling as beginning or end of ideation session
- Using empathy
- Using the internet to jump-start ideas
- practicing both alone and together
- Seeing opportunity in mistakes and value in failure