Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Creativity Blog Prompt 2
Too often, creativity is stifled in the classroom because idea generation is not encouraged. To encourage idea generation, as teacher could accept ideas from all students, and not correct/reward them for their ideas right away. It is important to just get the ideas out there first, and without the remarking about the ideas, other students may be inspired to give their ideas as well. Once everyone has thrown out their ideas, then the teacher can proceed to explain which ideas contain value and the reasoning behind that. One example could be having children tell you their opinion on what will happen next in the story. This allows the children to think creatively, and come up with various ideas since no answer may necessary "right". Not attributing judgement and giving students freedom allows for the production on creativity and generation of ideas.
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I definitely agree with this. When students see that all ideas are being accepted they are more likely to give an answer. Often times students are embarrassed of afraid that they wil get made fun of if their answer is wrong. This leads to only a select few students answering all the questions and it gives a more limited outlook to a problem. By this type of encouraging idea generation from teachers, students will be able to give their opinion without being nervous about getting criticized.
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