PLC Group Planning Document

GROUP MEETING SPACE: EC 3 SPACE

WHO HAS RESOURCES:
Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching - R. Keith Sawyer ed.:
Creative Intelligence, Bruce Nussbaum:
Bringing Innovation to School, Suzie Boss:
Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom, Ronald A. Beghetto and James C. Kaufman eds.:
A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger von Oech:
Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner:
Teaching 21st Century Skills, Sue Z. Beers:
Literacy in Not Enough, Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes, and Andrew Churches


The essential question that each group will decide is: How can creativity help to improve student
learning in my class/subject/division/at ASB?

WHY: Notes on Three big ideas

Learning
Collaboration
Results


WHAT: article on PLCs: What is a Professional Learning Community?

Creative thinking is both the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or
expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an
imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk
taking.
ASB HS creativity
docs:https://docs.google.com/a/asbindia.org/file/d/0B2lmgUyLYIcfVGZVYkFrdG5SOEk/edit



WHEN: PLCs will meet on the following Tuesdays through the year.
August 27th
September 24th
November 19th
December 10th
January 28th
February 18th
March 25th
April 22nd
May 20th - Sharing learning

WHERE: (Decide on a meeting room/place for the above Tuesdays and record here)

HOW will we work together?
a. Please record Group Norms here and review at the beginning of each session together.

Paraphrasing
Posing Questions (if you wonder, ask)
Putting Ideas on the Table
Providing Data
Paying Attention to Self and Others
Presuming Positive Intentions
Punctuality (begin and end on time, agenda)


b. How will we work together to research and answer the EQ? (some possibilities - bring in work
for tuning using identified protocols, research/book study, online course)


c. How will we share our learning on how the practice discussed helped to improve student
learning in our areas (May 20th)?


WHO will facilitate each meeting?

1. Creativity and Innovation (ASB)
Creativity
refers to the act of recognizing or producing new ideas, approaches, actions,
or objects that are meaningful and valuable to an individual or a wider
community for a broad range of problem solving.
Innovation is
the process of acting on the creative ideas to make some specific and tangible
differences in a specific context.

Components
Idea Generation
Use a wide range of idea-creation techniques (such
as brainstorming)
Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical
concepts)

Idea Development and
Revision

Elaborate upon, refine, analyze, evaluate and implement ideas
in order to improve and maximize creative efforts

Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives;
incorporate group input and feedback into the work

View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that
creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes
and frequent mistakes

Evocative, Unique
Results

Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and
understand the real-world limits to adopting new ideas

Communicate new ideas to others effectively

Meeting Facilitator and what the group will do

September 24th

What is creativity (define)? Creativity is: The process of having original
ideas that have value - Sir Ken Robinson

Value = consider the context of the situation, understanding your
students is necessary

How do we create environments for creativity (each teacher individually
in their field) asses creativity? A classroom culture that allows for risk
taking and failure. Affirmation that its ok to not get it right. Encourage
(reward?) those who are willing to put themselves out there.

What does it look like in different situations/settings?

Creativity must come out of some deeper understanding of the
content/concepts.

November 19th

Bring in a product - video, paper, lesson, something to share with others
to critique for creativity of process or product or approach to
making/doing.

Can creativity be pushed? Can everyone be a spark? At what point
does the new thing that is being added on to cease to be new and
unique and start being the same as what has already been done.

Ways we see creativity - dance, music, weddings/birthday parties, how
do things like Pinterest (and other social media) spark our creativity?
Are we tapping into a wider wealth of knowledge with technology?

Nov - 19
Heeru - Samples to identify creative products - are these products
creative or not

1. Red Eyed Tree Frog - Grade 5
2. Shakespeare - grade 5


Jayshrees Art project doing an artist study on Eric Carle where children
have taken the style of E.C. and made imaginary animals made up of
two or more parts of real animals.
December 10th

Focus on developing a rubric that shows creativity for the EC
A sample for rubric : http://doug-
johnson.squarespace.com/storage/rubric%20for%20creativity.jpg?__SQ
UARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1360944740445

Grant Wiggins Rubric

As only 3 members were present due to illness and other meeting
commitments, we decided to table the rubric discussion for next meeting
on Jan 28th.

We still need Kim and Dax to bring in their samples so we can compare
the work to the rubrics we select.
January 28th

A continuum of adaptive creative behaviors
A developmental continuum is proposed to span the creativity of
childhood to the creativity found in adults. The range of adaptive
behaviors along this continuum are related by the common element of
discontinuity, but differ in adaptation, purpose, novelty, value, speed,
and structure. Seven levels are proposed: Learning something new;
universal novelty; making connections that are rare compared to
peers; developing talents; developing heuristics; producing
information; creating by extending a field; and creating by
revolutionizing a field. The last two levels are characteristic of mature
creators. How educators currently deal with creativity, different
developmental trajectories that relate to child rearing and schooling
practices, and a call for supporting creativity as a goal for education.
ftp://download.intel.com/education/Common/in/Resources/AP/librar
y/creativity_fluency_elementary.pdf


For next time - synthesize the parts of the rubric we want to keep or not.
Finalize the rubric, and think of projects we can use to apply the rubirc
for to test it out.
February 18th

Creative Teaching - What Why When and How

March 25th

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_how_to_build_yo
ur_creative_confidence (cant divide people into creative
and not creative, promoting self-efficacy helps develop
creativity).
1. What did we individually and as a group accomplish?
(Use your PLC group planning document to reflect on what
was done at each meeting and in between meetings, but
dont feel limited in trying to name success specific to
your goals. You may have changed course after trying
something and having it work [or not work] as
anticipated).
We realized that each age group needed a different rubric.
What would fit early childhood would not fit middle and
high school and even upper elementary.Keeping that in
mind we have come up with three different rubrics to
assess creativity.

2. What was a challenge? (Consider things that were in
your control to determine challenges)
Our PLC group was too homogeneous. We had a hard
time defining creativity in the first place - wondering if we
should even be putting a value on (or defining) creativity
at all. We decided that Sir Ken Robinsons definition of
creativity was one we could agree on, "The process of
having original ideas that have value." but then we still
struggled with what is "value" as it could and does mean
many different things for many different people.
3. As we reflect on our learning and group goals, did we
determine clear and realistic indicators of achievement?
Did we know what success would look like?
Yes, we did determine realistic indicator. We agreed to
come up with rubrics to provide indicators for the levels of
creativity. Although, we did have difficulty arriving at this
position.
4. And most importantly, what impact did we individually
and as group have on student learning and success and
how did we measure this? (We learn as much from what
didnt have an impact as from what did and sharing this is
important information for other colleagues considering
trying new strategies)
It affected the way teachers viewed students approach
and product.
EC Rubric (EC 3 - KG) http://doug-
johnson.squarespace.com/storage/rubric%20for%20creativity.jpg?__SQ
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ES Rubric (1 - 5) -
http://download.intel.com/education/Common/in/Resources/AP/library/cr
eativity_fluency_elementary.pdf

MS/HS Rubric -
https://docs.google.com/a/asbindia.org/file/d/0B2lmgUyLYIcfVGZVYkFrd
G5SOEk/edit

Assessment for Grade 9 Digitial Dinner Party (Enlightenment Unit)
-Represents the ideas of different Enlightenment thinkers
philosophies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEQbkAZKQhM&feature=youtu.
be

Assessment for Grade 10 Podcast (Nazi Rise Unit)
-Represents links between Nazi Germany abusing national security
to NSA/Snowden modern day connection
https://docs.google.com/a/asbindia.org/file/d/0BxAi3PvI6zLkZGdYT
U5uRFlmTGc/edit

April 22nd

Presentation - made!

To Do:
Dax to put in EC sample of Emelia.
Sri - print off rubrics.
Everyone - return books/resources

May 20th

Share action and learning with the school community/open session of the
board meeting.(Science Fair type sharing session)




Resources:

1. Teaching 21st Century Skills by Sue Z. Beers - DAX
2. Literacy is not enough by Lee Crockett ( Drishti)
3. Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom by Ronald Beghetto (Sridevi)
A\4. A Whack in the side of the head ( Payal)
5. Creating Innovators by (Erica)Tony Wagner
6. Creative Intelligence by Brusce Nussbaum
7. Bringing Innovation to School by suzie Boss
8. Structure and improvisation in Creative Teaching by R Keith Sawyer (Heeru)

Assessing creativity
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/you-can-teach-assess-creativity-andrew-miller
http://grantwiggins.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/creative.pdf
http://creativitymattersproject.blogspot.in/2010/03/how-can-you-spot-creativity.html



Assessing Creativity - Rubric