Wednesday, July 11, 2018

How Creativity Friendly/Fertile is Your School? (A tool in progress)



Self Assessment:

Does your classroom/school/district foster, nourish, encourage, develop Student Creativity___________
No assumptions, platitudes, or cliches please: Offering ‘Art Class’ doesn’t necessarily assure students are developing creativity.  ___________________________________________________________
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Is your Classroom/School focused on developing student Creativity?
- What are some indicators of that? ________________________________________________________________
Instruction
Are students aware of/do they understand the phenomenon of Creativity?___________________
Do they understand its role in human life, goals, and effort?_______________________________
Do they understand essential 21st century approaches to Creativity?
- Process Oriented Creativity? ________________________________________________________
- Collaborative Creativity? ___________________________________________________________
- Purpose Driven/Applied Creativity? __________________________________________________

How and where is the development of student creativity integrated into teaching and learning across the curriculum? ____________________________________________________________________

Culture of Creativity
Is the development of Creativity an integral part of the school culture? ________________________
Does creativity shape school life? How? _________________________________________________

The School as a Creative Community
Are creative, communal activities part of the community aspect of the school? _________________
Does school community life include performances and exhibits (both physical and virtual) of student creative efforts?
Beyond simply staging performances and exhibits, how does the school, as an institution that fosters learning, mastery of learning, and creativity, make use of these? _____________________________

More than 8 affirmative, quality answers? You are in the 1%!
More than 5? You can look your students in the eye and know that they are getting something wonderful at your school!

Fewer than 3? Time to get creative!
 

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