The Creative Classroom

Creative thinkers need a classroom that inspires optimal development of creativity. Students should feel safe to express their own individuality and out of the box thinking. Learning environments such as this should:

• Focus and embrace the uniqueness of each child
• Foster imagination
• Encourage creative impulses
• Frequesntly provide provide positive feedback of children's work and ideas.
• Maintain student motivation for learning

In creative classrooms you will find children that:

• ask questions
• challenge answers and authority
• are curious
• see how various relationships work -synthesisers :)
• offer alternative solutions
• express opinions and ideas
• are risk takers
• collaborate
• ENGAGED!!!

How do we as educators reach the needs of the creative?

By providing students with various approaches to learning that promote cooperative learning, critical thinking, hands-on exploration, rigor, and imagination. As educators we must be willing to step outside of our comfort zones and shy away from "prescriptive lessons" that fail to foster creativeness-Prescriptive lessons offer prescriptive answers, and in doing so we offer a disservice to our children.