I think a way that I express my creative side is by crochet. When I was in the eighth grade I went to this summer program called Hayward Rec Connect. When they first offered to teach us how to crochet I didn’t want to because I thought it was going to be boring and a waist of time. One day it was too hot outside for me,so I decided to go inside and see if there was anything else for me to do and there was crochet. Since I didn’t and to be in the heat i just tried it out and to be honest it was quite interesting to learn and I found it fairly easy to do ad pretty relaxing to me at least. The next couple of days I couldn’t wait to crochet I even got my sister to try it out, she also took me to Michael’s the craft store to get some yarn and a
In this case, the program is oriented to students from primary four to primary six. The course is carried out in the form of small-size class, which only enrolls sixteen students. It aims to explain various creative strategies to develop students’ creativity. Kitano & Kirby (1986) stated that creativity is the ability to come up with i...
Failure, the lack of success, the omission of expected action, is present in everyone’s life. It is that sinking feeling in your gut that doesn’t go away until you go home to wish it away with simple lively pleasures. This disappointing feeling doesn’t leave me at all, unfortunately. Defeat stares me in the face from my trashcan to the small bits of shredded paper scattered across my floor. There are occasional times where I see my misery resting on top of my bookshelf, demanding to be taken care of. The cause for this negative feeling is very simple, yet very complex. Origami has caused me more emotional pain than a failing class, yet more joy results from it than getting a new puppy.
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Teaching using creative methods can help develop the whole child. It can make learning experiences more exciting, more relevant, create different contexts for learning, al...
Creative writing is my favorite; I believe it is where my writing is its strongest. I like that there are endless possibilities and that it really allows for my creativity to run wild. A particular creative essay that stands out to me is one from my ninth grade year of high school. I was assigned to write about my favorite childhood fairytale, but to put a twist to it. I wrote about Cinderella, and I totally changed up the original. I
I consider myself to be creative. I am a henna artist and my interest in henna art and makeup has developed over the years. I am also gaining my qualification as a makeup artist at West Thames College. Being able to work as a team in the collage and interact with other people from different cultures and background has enhanced my communication skills. Ice skating and swimming allowed me to do something I really enjoy.
Using creativity in the classroom will create strong students and help better them for the future. Now, students are just being taught to what is on the test. They do not learn how to be leaders, how to work in groups, people skills, or how to use their mind that is not just for memorizing the information. “The challenge now is to transform education systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically different view of human intelligence and of creativity” (Robinson K., 2011, p. 14). Using creativity and technology will allow the students to enjoy learning more. I noticed in my final project, that other students who weren’t education majors, saw this problem too. Many of them did not see creativity in a classroom, they felt that the school system was creating them into robots that taught them all how to think a certain way. Ken Robinson feels that, “we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.” (2011, p. 49). Teachers should be teaching students how to be creative, and how to think on their own, so students will be able to go far in the future and succeed in any job they
Creativity is diminishing and needs to be revived in today’s youth. One drastic cause of the limitations of creativity is the pressure put on adolescents from high-stakes testing. Their worlds are revolving around numbers, grades, and test scores instead of their creative ability to overcome challenges and tasks by thinking out of the box. Another major reason is the limitations in classrooms. Students have drilled the concept of presenting what the teacher wants in order to receive that number grade that they want, instead of presenting their way on the topic in a creative and personalized perspective; original to just that individual. Lastly, adolescent dependency on technology is driving the youth away from exploring the creativeness embedded into our daily lives, and instead, they look down and focus on their screens right in front of them. It is time to address the creativity crisis taking over our future leaders. It is time for creativity to merge back into our lives and be recognized as a vital key to success. It is time to make a
As I was deciding how I should respond to the prompt I thought of several possibilities. I chose this particular experience because it is fresh on my heart and even though it is a fairly recent experience, it has really made a huge impact on my life and opened my eyes to the world around me.
Knitting Myself Back Together When I decided this past summer to move into my own apartment after years of living with roommates, my anxiety took over completely. "Idiot," it hissed after I signed a lease on a beautiful little place in a not so nice area. "How do you think you're ready for this? You can't afford it, it's not safe, you'll regret it, you chose wrong.
First we will explore the contextual background to the focus on creativity in schools today. Where did the idea of creativity in education stem from? We will travel rapidly through the twentieth century research before coming to more recent developments and initiatives.
Creative Arts in early childhood education refers to children’s participation in a variety of activities that engage their minds, bodies and senses (Sinclair, Jeanneret & O’Toole, 2012; Kearns, 2017); to inspire all children with the opportunity for creative and imaginative expression. Duffy (2006) and Sinclair et al. (2012) state that creativity is the process where children use their imagination to problem solve, develop new ideas, independence and flexibility to accomplish tasks. Furthermore, when educators foster creativity, they are assisting children in making meaning through play and developing their growing capacity to communicate, collaborate and think critically to meet the demands of life in the 21st century (Duffy, 2006; Korn-Bursztyn, 2012; Sinclair et al., 2012).
Perhaps, one of the best ways to demonstrate creativity in math is through an identity question. An identity question is where you have an equation and you try to manipulate each side individually without touching the other side and get them to be equal. We start off with something like sin squared theta over cos theta plus cos and the objective here is to prove that it is identical to sec theta. At...
There were notebooks full of drawings and stories I created, inspired by the stories I picked up in whatever it was I could read. fake movie descriptions, satires (or what would pass for them when you’re under ten) of popular things at the time, I even tried to write a fake radio show with my friends using a tape recorded and index cards in place of cue cards. Basically anything I could use as a launch pad for creativity or inspiration I would take in, be it movies, books, any art form.
In early childhood, teachers guide children’s artistic learning, which is then supported by peers (Wright, 2003). This is known as the guided approach. In this approach, teachers reflect, explore and plan together possible way to extend children’s artistic knowledge and skills. Furthermore, activities are deliberately open-ended to foster divergent thinking and support the process instead of the product (Mills, 2014). Teaching creative arts provides children a mode of communication and a medium for representing the world (Wright, 2003). Since children learn through play, creative arts is a platform for children to interact socially, explore emotions and develop motor skills (Mills,