Teacher Creativity

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Teacher Creativity is less about thinking outside the box and more about identifying and pursuing opportunities to innovate despite the constraints of a traditional classroom environment. Design Thinking helps teachers focus on student needs and validate outcomes through a process of research and experimentation.

Teacher Designers

We engage in a design-based approach to creativity, where educators design and develop solutions to problems inside the box.

People and Context

We want to identify the problems we can address and better understand how students interact and experience those problems.

Validate Outcomes

We validate ideas through a process of research and experimentation.
The goal is to know we’ve solved the problem. Not think it.

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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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Teacher Creativity