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"Teaching" Creativity is Hard,

Published on Dec 04, 2015

ECEC 2014, PDTC 2015, GETCA 2015

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"Teaching" Creativity

is Hard!
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Jennifer Jones

B.Ed, M.Ed
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David Stawn

B.Ed, M.Ed
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Goals:

  • Share open-ended visual art projects.
  • Discuss children's literature.
  • Make connections to other curricular areas.
  • Examine Michael Michalko's 7 Tenets of Creative Thinking.
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Why cultivate creativity?

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Sir Ken Robinson

How Schools Kill Creativity (2006)
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What is creativity?

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Creativity is

intelligence having fun!
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Cultivating Creativity

in your classrooms and schools
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Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best sellers.
Website: http://creativethinking.net
Twitter: @MichaelMichalko

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#1:  You are Creative

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Books with Creative Characters

  • Going Places - Peter and Paul Reynolds (2015)
  • Funny Machines for George the Sheep – Geraldine Elschner (2014)
  • Rosie Revere, Engineer - Andrea Beaty (2013)
  • Standing in for Lincoln Green - David MacKintosh (2013)
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Books about Being Creative

  • The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds (2003)
  • The Book that Zack Wrote – Ethan Long (2011)
  • Mix It Up - Herve Tullet (2014)
  • Art & Max - David Wiesner (2010)
  • Beautiful Oops - Barney Saltzberg (2010)
  • The Nowhere Box - Sam Zuppardi (2013)
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#2:  Creative Thinking is Work

"the next step is patience and perseverance"
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Perseverance and Patience

  • The Most Magnificent Thing - Ashley Spires (2014)
  • Today I Will Fly - Mo Willems (2007)
  • So Few of Me - Peter H. Reynolds (2006)
  • Stuck - Oliver Jeffers (2011)
  • The North Star - Peter H. Reynolds (2009)
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#3:  You Must Go Through the Motions

Practice Makes Progress
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"The brain thrives on creative energy that results from experiences, real or fictional."

#4:  Your Brain is Not a Computer
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"The brain thrives on creative energy that results from experiences, real or fictional."

#4:  Your Brain is Not a Computer
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#5:  There is No Right Answer

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"Aristotle believed that things were either "A" or "not A." To him the sky was blue or not blue -- never both. Such dualistic thinking is limiting. After all, the sky is a billion different shades of blue."

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Multifaceted Nature of Creativity

  • Todd Parr Books (1998 - present)
  • Ish - Peter H. Reynolds (2004)
  • My Heart Is Like a Zoo - Michael Hall (2009)
  • Perfect Square - Michael Hall (2011)
  • Windblown - Édouard Manceau (2013)
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#6:  There is No Such Thing as Failure

"Trying something without succeeding is not failing. It's producing a result."
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Books About Creative People

  • Odd Boy Out - Don Brown (2004)
  • Picasso's Trousers - Nicholas Allan (2011)
  • Katie and the Starry Night - James Mayhew (2012)
  • Laurence Anholt Books
  • Uncle Andy's - James Warhola (2003)
  • Matisse's Garden - Samantha Friedman (2014)
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#7: We Don't See Things as They Are


We See Them as We Are

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"All experiences are neutral. They have no meaning. You give them meaning by the way you choose to interpret them...You construct your own reality by how you choose to interpret your experiences."

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#8:  Creativity Takes Time*

Are we building in time for creativity every day?
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Activity Time

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Jennifer Jones