Resources and Websites

Part of A New Direction's Teaching for Creativity work, these sets of Taster Cards provide examples of how to practice the Creative Habits of Mind through a range of quick, playful activities. They aim to provide a scaffold for teachers who want to develop the creativity of their students across the curriculum. Teaching for Creativity also includes a set of free cross-curricular resources exploring a range of topics including RSE, the climate crisis, and Black British history.  

The image to the left can be scrolled up and down to explore the resources available.

Education Scotland's introduction to creativity skills and the resources available to develop creativity skills, creative teaching, creative learning, and creative change. 

Creativity can be thought of as the colour that brings Curriculum for Excellence to life. The four core creativity skills run throughout the four capacities and are integral to the meta skills which are increasingly important in today’s workplace.

The World Economic Forum states that by 2025, the top five skills employers will be looking for include innovation, complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity and originality. Creativity is one of our most essential skills.

Ken Robinson's work is a call to action that challenges and empowers us to re-imagine our world, and our systems, for the better, including Education.

Sir Ken Robinson changed the thinking and lives of millions of people and certainly has influenced Stirling's and Scotland's Creative Learning programme. His TED Talks are watched an average of 17,000 times a day–a figure that Chris Anderson, Head of TED, says is the equivalent of selling out the Millennium Dome every night for fifteen consecutive years. A New York Times bestselling author, Sir Ken’s books have been translated into twenty four languages.

You can see an extract from his most recent book Imagine If: Creating a Future for Us All here