Creative environment

CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT

Teresa Domingo

Gema Pascual

Juan Pedro Alberola

Arancha Martín Quilis

CREATIVE FEATURES

IMAGINATIONFostering our students to

create something that it

doesn’t exist is the key.

CREATIVE FEATURES

PURPOSEFULExperimentation

and creation must

have a specific

objective.

CREATIVE FEATURES

ORIGINALThe result of this

creative process

should be different

from the rest

CREATIVE FEATURES

OF VALUEThe product or result

must be of value and

reach the objectives.

TEACHERS’ ROLES IN A CREATIVE CLASSROOM

1. EXPLORER ROLE

The teacher is aninformation finder

TEACHERS’ ROLES IN A CREATIVE CLASSROOM

2. ARTIST ROLE The teacher is amagician and turnsinformation into newideas.

TEACHERS’ ROLES IN A CREATIVE CLASSROOM

3. JUDGE ROLE

Teachers help

students to

evaluate their ideas.

TEACHERS’ ROLES IN A CREATIVE CLASSROOM

4. WARRIOR ROLE

Teachers carry the

ideas into action.

ORGANISING ACTIVITIES

When planning an activity teachers must take into account:

– Every student has an enormous desire to learn

– All of them like to participate and be part of their learning process

– They have talents to discover and to develop.

ORGANISING ACTIVITIES

Teachers have to create:

– A safety and relaxing environment

– Full of rewards and positive thinking

– Involve students in their learning process.

– Use a wide range of material and problem solving activities

ORGANISING ACTIVITIES

Main objective should be developing students capacities, abilities and creative potential as much as possible.

OPINION

Teachers should adapt their teaching style to the kind of creative thinking that our students have

If our students are relaxed they can work better.

Assessment should be used as a motivational tool

Teaching process should not be reduced to a simple transmission of knowledge.

OPINION

Create a communicative environment among students and among students and teacher.

Teachers need to believe in their Philosophy

Make our students go on these steps:– Assimiliation of content– Implementation– Involvement

Bibliography

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/creativity-environment

http://classroomgamesandtech.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/creativity-exercises-some-creative.html

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/runco.html