Teacher Creativity

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Teacher Creativity

Teacher Creativity represents a mindset and approach to professional growth. As teaching practitioners engage in the framework, they apply design thinking principles to an instructional challenge and learn how to innovate despite classroom constraints. Participants not only report a change in attitude toward creativity but an increased sense of empowerment and control when it comes to problem-solving in the classroom.

Student-Centered Design

A design-based approach to creativity that clarifies instructional challenges and emphasizes the needs and wants of different student groups.

Innovation Despite Constraints

A creative process that recognizes environmental factors in the classroom and categorizes them into opportunities and constraints.

Long-Term Professional Growth

A journey of exploration and experimentation that checks assumptions, monitors bias, and pursues opportunities to evaluate the impact of our actions.

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Tutorial 1:What is Creativity?

Scholars define creativity as the production of new and valuable outcomes and their relationship with a social context. This tutorial introduces creativity in the context of teaching and learning. 

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Tutorial 2:Social Context

The classroom represents a social context for Teacher Creativity, so we need to consider how teachers interact with the various elements that make up that environment.  

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Tutorial 3:Audience

Teacher creativity considers the actions we take in response to challenges we experience in the classroom and the outcomes we produce because of those actions.

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Tutorial 4:Affordances

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Tutorial 5:Teacher Creativity

Every teacher and educator experiences problems; how we identify challenges and work despite constraints speaks to the concept of Teacher Creativity.  

Four C Framework for Creativity

Tutorial 6: Outcomes

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