Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas and solve problems in any field. It involves making new connections between ideas and experimenting. Creativity can be developed through giving oneself time and space for creative thinking, building confidence to take risks and make mistakes, and using humor to relax the mind. John Cleese identifies five factors to increase creativity: space, time, confidence, humor, and switching between open and closed modes of thinking. The revised Bloom's Taxonomy recognizes that higher-order thinking like creation is more difficult than recall or application. Teachers can promote student creativity by modeling it themselves, providing a stimulating classroom environment, finding what excites each student, and allowing time and mistakes in the creative process.

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7. What is Creativity?
Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas and new
connections between ideas, and ways to solve problems in any
field or realm of our lives.
Many of us think of creativity as making something new—like a
new song, poem, painting, or novel. Creativity is certainly involved
in making art. However, creativity is much more than that.
Without it, we wouldn’t be able to work or solve problems in our
daily lives. All people have the capacity to be creative. We can
also nurture and increase our creativity.
Positivity, by Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph. D. The 6 Myths of
Creativity

8. What is Creativity?
Creativity is a process that can be developed and
managed.
Creativity begins with a foundation of knowledge,
learning a discipline, and mastering whole brain
thinking.
We learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring,
questioning assumptions, using imagination and
synthesizing information.
Linda Naiman, founder of Creativity at Work

9. Framework for 21st Century Learning
To be successful in the future, our students will need the 4Cs:
critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.

10. Daniel Pink is the guru of
design thinking. He
believes the future will be
won by those who use the
right side of their brains,
the side that is emotional
and creative.

15. John Cleese: 5 Factors to Make You More Creative
Space/Time/Time/Confidence/Humor

16. Space
You can’t become playful, and therefore creative,
if you’re under your usual pressures.

17. Time
It’s not enough to create space; you have to create
your space for a specific period of time.

18. Time:
Giving your mind as
long as possible to
come up with
something original,
and learning to
tolerate the
discomfort of
pondering time and
indecision.

19. Confidence
Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively
as the fear of making a mistake.

20. Humor
The main evolutionary significance of humor is
that it gets us from the closed mode to the open
mode more quickly than anything else.

21. Cleese’s Two Modes of Operating
Open: where we take a wide-angle, abstract
view of the problem and allow the mind to
ponder possible solutions.
Closed: where we zoom in on implementing a
specific solution with narrow precision.

22. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

23. Bloom's Taxonomy is a multi-tiered model of classifying thinking
according to six cognitive levels of complexity, first published in
1956. Bloom's six major categories were changed from noun to
verb forms in 2001.

24. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy puts into
writing what art teachers have known
for years:
It is much more difficult
- and a higher order of thinking –
to create something new rather than
to apply evaluation to it.

26. Why should you post the revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy in your art room?
You can use it as a visual reminder for
yourself. You can refer to it when asking
students to identify the levels at which they
are working throughout a project and during
critique. It is also beneficial to have it on
display when you are evaluated by an
administrator.

34. The theory of “loose parts,” first proposed by architect Simon
Nicholson in the 1970's, has begun to influence child-play experts
and the people who design play spaces for children in a big way.
Nicholson believed that it is the “loose parts” in our environment
that will empower our creativity.
Loose Parts Theory

35. “In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and
creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly
proportional to the number and kind of variables in it.”
Simon Nicholson, Architect

36. An environment which is rich in open-ended materials and
real materials, invokes children to experiment, engage,
construct and invent; invites them to tinker, to manipulate
and to play.

37. The Loose Parts Theory correlates with the Reggio Emilia
approach to early childhood education.

38. Imagination Playground

39. Resources for Loose Parts

40. Sir Ken Robinson’s
new book.

41. How to Promote Creativity in Your Art Room
Model Creativity
Provide Stimulating Environment that Supports Creativity
Find What Excites Your Students
Encourage Idea Generation
Allow Time for Creative Thinking
Allow for Mistakes
Encourage Creative Collaboration
Teach Self-Responsibility
Instruct and Assess Creatively

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