Creativity Blog Post 2

Instructing and assessing creatively are great ways to encourage creativity in students. By assessing creatively a teacher allows for students to come up with their own answers that may not be word for word what the teacher taught, but still demonstrate deep understanding of the topic. One way this could be applied to teaching is with mathematics. If teachers require that students show their work then the teacher can see that they know how to do something like addition, but may not be good at the actual calculations. Teachers should also show multiple ways to do a problem so that the students can understand the problem from different perspectives and hopefully come to a deeper understanding of the topic.