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ARTS EDUCATION: CREATIVITY

IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION
WEEK 1
OVERVIEW: CREATIVITY

27 November 2015 by Chai Geok Kim

Last Updated:27 November 2015 LMS SEGi education group 1
How Creative Are You? (5 minutes)

1. Prepare a piece of A4 paper.

2. Draw a circle in the middle of the
paper.
3. Elaborate on the circle.

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How Creative Are You?

How many uses can you think of for a spoon? You have two minutes Go!

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How Creative Are You?

Complete the images (2 minutes).

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How Creative Are You?

Samples from Daily Beast Piece

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How Creative Are You?

RIDDLE

A man has married 20 women in a small town.

All of the women are still alive and none of them
are divorced.
The man has broken no laws.
Who is the man?

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How Creative Are You?

RIDDLE

PRIEST

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QUIZ: How Creative Are You? (10min)

http://thecreativityquiz.com/

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What is creativity?

Process of bringing something new into

being (May, 1975, p39)
Ability of process something novel,
something with the stamp of uniqueness
upon it (Torrance, 1970)
A combination of abilities, skills,
motivations, and attitudes (Honig, 2006)

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Whos Who?

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Whos Who?

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Disneyland

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Creativity: Big C vs small c?

Capital C creativity bringing into existence

something genuinely new that receives social
validation enough to be added to the culture
(e.g. i-phone)

small c creativity ideas or products that are

new to the person, but only to the person (e.g. a
childs using his finger to blend paint)

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The Brick vs I-phone

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What is creativity?

Is a way of thinking and acting or

making something that is original for
that individual and valued by that
person or others.

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What Is A Creative Process?

1. Originality the discovery of an idea,

plan, or answer
2. Process working out, making sure that
the idea plan, or answer works or is
possible

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Multiple Intelligence

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Thought Processes and Creativity
1. Convergent Thinking usually results in a
single answer or solution to a question or
problem

2. Divergent Thinking opens things up

and results in many answers to a single
problem

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Why focus on Process?

In dealing with young children, focus should

be on process.

Process encourages the development

of creativity across the curriculum
instead of being confined to art and
music activities.

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Importance of Creativity

Creativity is important because:

1. Society is rapidly changing.

2. Creative ability will provide the means to cope with the

future.

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What are the benefits of creativity for children?

1. Learn to feel good about themselves.

2. Learn to seek many answers to a problem.
3. Develop their potential to think.
4. Develop their individuality.
5. Develop new skills.
6. Experience the joy of being different.

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How can teachers benefit from encouraging
creativity in children?

Discuss.

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How to help children to express creativity?

1. Help children to accept change.

2. Help children realise that some problems have no easy
answers.
3. Help children recognise that many problems have a
number of possible answers.
4. Help children learn to judge and accept their own
feelings.
5. Reward children for being creative.
6. Help children feel joy in their creative productions and
in working through problems.
7. Help children appreciate themselves for being different.
8. Help children to develop perseverance.
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How to modify the curriculum to promote
creativity?
1. Curriculum must be developmentally
appropriate.

2. Be aware of childrens interests.

3. Provide a variety of materials that

encourage childrens creative exploration.

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How to modify the curriculum to promote
creativity?
4. Consider all types of learning styles and
multiple intelligences.

5. Encourage childrens divergent thinking

and curiosity.

6. Provide opportunities for children to

interact and communicate.
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Class Activities

In pairs or teams, using only blocks, think of

different ways you can encourage creativity
in children.

Have fun!

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Activities for the week

1. How can I change my current teaching

strategies in order to better encourage the
development of creativity in young children?

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Activities for the week

2. How do I encourage the development of a

childs CREATIVITY in my classroom
environment, lesson, and activities?

3. What am I doing to help young children

recognize their own uniqueness, and
creativity?

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