I have often thought about how to teach creativity so that the students are able to think of characters, scripts, props, sets, words, places, people, images, costumes, and so on. I want them to own the ideas and concepts in class and in productions. I want my students to be proactive in their learning process so I decided to research how to teach creativity where there are so many classes that they take where they are told there is only one right answer, and they have to conform to be like their class mates. In my class they will be able to be who they are, creative people able to use their minds.
Creativity:
Most five year olds are totally confident that they can draw, sing, and dance. Tragically, within three or four years this child, if she is typical, will experience a crisis of confidence. She will no longer feel competent or creative. As teachers, we are often partly to blame for the diminished inclination to be creative as children become socialized and more intelligent.
Think Process, rather than Product:
Put more emphasis in process rather than product? When we show an end product in order to help explain something, we risk that students will not be challenged to think creatively. We may want them to be creative, but by our actions they believe we care more about the product than whether they learn how to think. Why should students be creative when we are showing answers rather than presenting problems? There are good ways to explain problems without showing answers.
http://www.goshen.edu/~marvinpb/arted/tc.html#ideas
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