This document discusses ways to encourage creativity in students, teachers, and curriculum. It suggests using musical games, soundscapes, drum conversations, and other improvisational activities to spark imagination in students. For teachers, it recommends cultivating an environment with flexibility, discovery, focus, and sharing. The curriculum should emphasize composing, audition, and performance, but often lacks creative work due to standardized testing pressures.

1. How to encourage
creativity in students
and teachers

2. For students
For teachers
For the curriculum
For leaders of Education

3.  Of the three basic components : problem
solving, self expression, and imagination,
imagination is the wellspring of creativity,
for it is our audacity to imagine that
pushes the boundaries of possibility. (
Frank Fitzpatrick)

4. v

5. excitement flexibility magic
discovery flow focus noise
what-ifs wonder eureka trials
communication tension pride
ownership sharing inclusion

6.  Musical games ( which encourage improvisation)
 Soundscapes
 Drum conversations
 Illustrating poems or stories
 Ostinati patterns and riffs
 Sequencing e.g. using TUBs
 2simple and Garageband software
 Song writing
 Melodic construction
 Pentatonic exploration
 World Music links

8.  Since 1992 with the introduction of a National
Curriculum here the pillars have been:
 COMPOSING
 AUDITION
 PERFORMANCE
But in reality many schemes of work do not
include much creative work as the tickbox
culture tightens around us.