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CREATIVITY

 

Situation

You’d like all your pupils to develop their creativity. And you’ve inspired them with enriching experiences from visiting galleries to hosting artists–in–residence. So why is it that pupils still:

  • - Wait passively to be told exactly what to do
  • - Seem bereft of any wish to propose new ideas for fear of ridicule
  • - Fail to make connections other than those you point out
  • - Leave their creative efforts disorganised and underdeveloped
  • - Don’t transfer their creative strategies across subjects
  • - Show great inconsistency in their creative efforts?

 

Solution 

Using visual tools gets to the heart of the problem. By working more upstream than conventional approaches, you’re able to influence directly the source of creativity. And the effort involved in seeing the process through to completion. Visual tools allow you to model, and your pupils to replicate, this process — generating, organising and executing ideas into new patterns.

 

Benefits 

When visual tools are used to prompt and support the creative process from first spark to final presentation, you can expect to see your pupils:

  • - Generating new ideas freely and fluently
  • - Exploring alternative perspectives to their automatic responses
  • - Showing greater levels of persistence when facing difficulties
  • - Turning wild and incoherent ideas into organised outputs
  • - Managing their creative efforts by a growing understanding of how the process works
  • - Probing and learning from others’ creativity
  • - Discovering how to extend their creative methods to new areas of study

 

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