A guide to inspiring creativity in the classroom and beyond.

1. School Values Exploration:
Creativity!
Presented as part of the Skills and
Knowledge Subject
for the
Year 9 Imagine Program

2. School Vision
A world of learning

3. School Values
• Creativity
– Encouraging behaviours which encompass notions
of innovation, originality, liberation and generative
problem-solving in all that we do.

4. What does Creative Intelligence look like?

5. Definition:

6. Edward De Bono
Six Thinking Hats
An aid to creative thinking
‘You can analyse the past,
and you can design the future.’
Edward de Bono

7. Six Thinking Hats
Informative
Intuitive
Constructive
Creative
Reflective
Cautious

8. The Green Hat Thinking:
Movement instead of Judgement
• This is the creative
mode of thinking.
• Green represents
growth and
movement.
• Wearing the green hat
we look to new ideas
and solutions.
• Lateral thinking wears
a green hat.

9. Challenge 1
• Research has shown that the
best way to stimulate the
creative part of the brain, is to
stimulate it with practice.
• You have 60 seconds to write
as many uses as you can think
of for wire coat hangers

10. How many uses did you
come up with?
On average 12
year old boys
come up with 25
uses of the coat
hanger.

11. Is our ability to think creatively at risk
of being lost?
In most cases pre-school • As children become
children explore their older, the prescriptive
world through world of formal education
imagination and pushes children through a
investigation and series of educational
exercise ‘possibility narrow gates reduces their
thinking’ capacity to exercise
(the engagement of ‘possibility thinking.’
everyday problems at a
deep level).

12. Knowledge is limited, but
creativity encircles the
earth.’ Albert Einstein

13. What are the characteristics of
creative thinking?
Creative thinking is
characterised by:
• Imagination
• Open-mindedness
• A willingness to
explore unexpected
routes
• Offer tools to address
the issue.

14. How can we recognise creative
thinking?
When students are thinking
and behaving creatively in
the classroom, they most
often will be:
• Questioning and challenging
• Making connections and
seeing relationships.
• Envisaging what might be
• Exploring ideas, keeping
options open
• Reflecting critically on
ideas, actions and outcomes.

15. An Artist's Perspective on creativity?
The fear and excitement
associated with the possibility
that comes with a blank
canvas.
Jackson Pollock dancing colours - revisiting Pollock
movie with Ed Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HN9G4Lx_w

16. The Creative Process in Eight Stages:
Kimberly Brooks
“Like Kubler-Ross' five stages of
death--
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Dep
ression, Acceptance--I divide
the creative process into eight
stages.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/the-creative-process-in-e_b_71909.html

17. The Creative Process in Eight Stages:
Kimberly Brooks
The first two are (1) Vision and (2) Hope.
I don't care who you are or what the medium, whether
writer, filmmaker, musician, or lithographer or lawyer, or
postman, every person goes through these two phases when
they get struck by an idea.
Vision tends to come in a flash.
Then Hope makes the heart swoon and the mind swell around
it. Being a great daydreamer helps.
Everyone is an artist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/the-creative-process-in-e_b_71909.html

18. The Creative Process in Eight Stages:
Kimberly Brooks
The difference between artists who create and
artists who walk around pregnant with ideas
is the third stage which I call (3) Diving In.
That's the scary one.
My father is a surgeon and I used to watch him
operate a lot when I was a kid. I'll never forget
that singular moment, in the theatre of the
operating room, when he had to press the
scalpel into the flesh and make the cut. That's
a surgeon's "Diving In".
Mine just had less blood!

19. • The next four stages are (4) Excitement
(5) Suspicion (6) Clarity and (7)
Obsession.
Often I bounce between Excitement and
Suspicion--suspicion that perhaps my
instincts are wrong; that I'm heading in
the wrong direction -- (Anxiety!
Despair!)
Finally I move on to Clarity. Clarity, like
Vision, often happens in a moment--
when the sky opens and I can hear the
angels sing.
Then my favourite part is the tireless
consuming fever of Obsession, the life
force of every artist.
• The entire sequence can tend to form
an infinite loop.

20. The Creative Process in Eight Stages:
Kimberly Brooks
The last stage is (8) Resolution. Very
elusive. The composer Aaron Copland
said he didn't finish compositions so
much as abandon them. When it's finally
over, it feels like a whole relationship has
ended.
And then the anticipated rush of doing it all
over begins again...

21. The Creative Process in Eight Stages:
Kimberly Brooks
The often not attempted ninth stage of the
eight stage process! ;)
EXHIBIT
Share your creativity with the world in any
way possible.

22. Your Turn now... A new hat to wear.
What do all inventors have? Creativity!
• Think-Pair-Share Activity
• Aim: Form a team to design an invention
that could change the world.

23. What do all inventors have? Creativity!
Activity
• An invention is a product of the
imagination, which can be a device or a
process. Individually make a list of inventions
that make your life easier.
• Share your list of helpful inventions with your
group.
• Discuss with your group what your lives would
be like without these inventions. What
wouldn't you be able to do?

24. What do all inventors have? Creativity!
Activity
• Now make a group list of inventions that you wish
were available. What tasks could be made easier?
How?
• With others in your group, choose one invention
to make. Together, draw a sketch of your
invention on Butchers paper-large enough to
present to the class.
• Create a paragraph to explain the name of your
invention, how it works, and its purpose.
• Each group will have an opportunity to present
their invention to the rest of the class

25. Video Clips
• TEDxDoha - Taika Waititi - The Art of Creativity
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL71KhNmnls
• TEDxFullerton - Kimberly Brooks - Creative
Process In 8 Stages
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLxxZ7BllI
• OSCON 2010: Paul Fenwick, "The World's Worst
Inventions“
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyRdnV1D-mI

26. To finish……..
‘Perhaps the most important benefit from
teaching thinking is the increase in self-
esteem and self-confidence of those taught.
A youngster taught thinking feels in control
of his of her life-instead of feeling like a cork
carried along by a stream of life and
controlled by the currents.’
Edward de Bono.

27. Presentation Created By
Ragnar Haabjoern
www.thewonderingecologist.blogspot.com.au
http://au.linkedin.com/in/rhaabjoern