Thursday, March 20, 2014

Strategies to Foster Creativity in School

Here is another article about the difficulty of encouraging creativity in school.  However, this article unlike the other, presents 5 strategies that you can use to  encourage divergent, generative thinking.  Each strategy is explained in detail...
  1. Reversing the Question/Answer Paradigm
  2. Let the Music Play
  3. Inquiry-based Feedback
  4. Encourage Play & Manage Failure
  5. Using Art Strategies
What activities have you used to inspire out-ot-the-box thinking in your classes?

Fuel Creativity in the Classroom with Divergent Thinking.  Stacy Goodman's Blog. 3.18.14. Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/fueling-creativity-through-divergent-thinking-classroom-stacey-goodman

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