What is creativity and how can I support it in my classroom? In this powerup you will address this question. More specifically you will further develop your understanding of creativity and how you can support it by allowing for and establishing creative openings in your everyday classroom.
Essential Questions:
Understand what creativity is and what it looks like in the classroom
Learn how to support and invite creative openings in your classroom
This powerup aligns with INTASC learning standard #8.
Describe a learning activity where you can invite creative openings into the lesson by inviting students to come up with their own problems to solve, their own ways of solving them, and their own ways of demonstrating their understanding of what you are teaching.
Watch the brief video below
Read this brief article: https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/inviting-uncertainty-into-the-classroom
Complete the Application Activity at the end of the presentation.
Application Activity: Describe how you can establish creative openings in your teaching
Identify a topic, activity, or subject you plan to teach and explain how you can establish creative openings into your classroom
Limit your description to no more than one page in length
Include a brief description of the context (e.g., grade level, subject area, learning task),
Focus on a specific topic, learning task, or learning experience, and
Explain how what you are describing supports creativity and what level of creativity (E.g., mini-c, little-c, Pro-C).
Upload your completed description of a lesson or activity assessment to the power-up assignment portal.
Inviting uncertainty into the classroom
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/inviting-uncertainty-into-the-classroom