If you wish you could introduce creativity in your classroom, this is what you should go through.

1. CREATIVITY – THEMES & ISSUES
M. Saravanan
Teacher of English
Pushpalata British International School
Tirunelveli

2. GENERATING IMAGINATION
 Teachers can encourage
 A spirit of enquiry and dialogue by enabling questions
 What if?
 Why?
 What would happen if?
 Role-play
 Exploring issues from a particular perspective
 Start the lesson with a provocation
 (A big question/ or a series of questions)

3. MODELING POSSIBILITY THINKING
 Teacher genuinely asks exploratory questions

4. STUDENTS – PARTNERS IN LEARNING
 Should be involved in decision-making
 Reflect critically on their own progress
 Let students explore
 An idea
 A concept
 A process

5. SUPPORTING CALCULATED RISK TAKING
 The creative process
 allows solutions to emerge
 Is combined with a willingness to take risks
 Allows to imagine problems afresh and create new solutions
 Requires a culture that allows students
 to make mistakes and
 to reflect on and
 learn from these mistakes

6. TOWARDS AN OUTCOME WITH VALUE IN THE
OUTSIDE WORLD
 Creating a product (a work of art, presentation)
 It will help them share strategies that creative people use in many
different contexts
 Includes:
 Playful, slow imaginative thinking rather than critical thinking
 Looking at an issue from a completely different perspectives
 Visualization, meditation
 Drafting, re-drafting and editing
 And creating many prototypes

7. HARNESSING & IMAGINATIVE USE OF ICT
 Editing films or animations
 Producing, publishing music
 Building characters and narratives in interactive
games
 Sharing ideas through blogs

8. USING ALTERNATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
 Shifting the location of learning – prompt new thinking
 Outdoor spaces
 Museums
 Galleries
 Other venues within the community
 Change the layout of the classroom
 Generate different responses