I think a way that I express my creative side is by crochet. When I was in the eighth grade I went to this summer program called Hayward Rec Connect. When they first offered to teach us how to crochet I didn’t want to because I thought it was going to be boring and a waist of time. One day it was too hot outside for me,so I decided to go inside and see if there was anything else for me to do and there was crochet. Since I didn’t and to be in the heat i just tried it out and to be honest it was quite interesting to learn and I found it fairly easy to do ad pretty relaxing to me at least. The next couple of days I couldn’t wait to crochet I even got my sister to try it out, she also took me to Michael’s the craft store to get some yarn and a
Teaching using creative methods can help develop the whole child. It can make learning experiences more exciting, more relevant, create different contexts for learning, al...
In this case, the program is oriented to students from primary four to primary six. The course is carried out in the form of small-size class, which only enrolls sixteen students. It aims to explain various creative strategies to develop students’ creativity. Kitano & Kirby (1986) stated that creativity is the ability to come up with i...
I consider myself to be creative. I am a henna artist and my interest in henna art and makeup has developed over the years. I am also gaining my qualification as a makeup artist at West Thames College. Being able to work as a team in the collage and interact with other people from different cultures and background has enhanced my communication skills. Ice skating and swimming allowed me to do something I really enjoy.
Failure, the lack of success, the omission of expected action, is present in everyone’s life. It is that sinking feeling in your gut that doesn’t go away until you go home to wish it away with simple lively pleasures. This disappointing feeling doesn’t leave me at all, unfortunately. Defeat stares me in the face from my trashcan to the small bits of shredded paper scattered across my floor. There are occasional times where I see my misery resting on top of my bookshelf, demanding to be taken care of. The cause for this negative feeling is very simple, yet very complex. Origami has caused me more emotional pain than a failing class, yet more joy results from it than getting a new puppy.
Sandra Cisneros novel “The House on Mango Street” is a coming-of-age novel, meaning that it tells the story of a character growing up and going through a series of important life-defining changes. This novella primarily tells the story of a young Latina girl named Esperanza Cordero who dreams of a better life beyond her impoverished neighborhood on Mango Street in Chicago. Esperanza struggles with her identity and her place in the world. She wants to define herself on her terms, separate from the societal expectations imposed on women in her community. While both Esperanza and the other women on Mango Street have common ties in terms of community and societal expectations, Esperanza’s unique approach to defining her identity sets her apart
Edgar, D. W., Faulkner, P., Franklin, E., Knobloch, N. A., & Morgan, A. C. (2008). Creative Thinking: Opening Up a World of Thought. Techniques: Connecting Education & Careers, 83(4), 46. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
Creative writing is my favorite; I believe it is where my writing is its strongest. I like that there are endless possibilities and that it really allows for my creativity to run wild. A particular creative essay that stands out to me is one from my ninth grade year of high school. I was assigned to write about my favorite childhood fairytale, but to put a twist to it. I wrote about Cinderella, and I totally changed up the original. I
NACCCE definition of creativity: ‘Imaginative activity fashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of value’(NACCCE, 1999:94).Creativity can motivate children to learn new information through a creative outlook. One of the biggest issues teachers have is between teaching required content and integrating creativity into the daily sessions. The National Curriculum and state standard often create boundaries towards the teacher’s ability to develop the lesson, as the intention of including creativity sometimes resorts in a teacher centred learning environment. The teacher’s role should be to generate lessons and create activities that encourage students to be more open to their creative side. This is vital as it exposes children with varying learning styles to different ways of learning.
Perhaps, one of the best ways to demonstrate creativity in math is through an identity question. An identity question is where you have an equation and you try to manipulate each side individually without touching the other side and get them to be equal. We start off with something like sin squared theta over cos theta plus cos and the objective here is to prove that it is identical to sec theta. At...
Knitting Myself Back Together When I decided this past summer to move into my own apartment after years of living with roommates, my anxiety took over completely. "Idiot," it hissed after I signed a lease on a beautiful little place in a not so nice area. "How do you think you're ready for this? You can't afford it, it's not safe, you'll regret it, you chose wrong.
Creative Arts in early childhood education refers to children’s participation in a variety of activities that engage their minds, bodies and senses (Sinclair, Jeanneret & O’Toole, 2012; Kearns, 2017); to inspire all children with the opportunity for creative and imaginative expression. Duffy (2006) and Sinclair et al. (2012) state that creativity is the process where children use their imagination to problem solve, develop new ideas, independence and flexibility to accomplish tasks. Furthermore, when educators foster creativity, they are assisting children in making meaning through play and developing their growing capacity to communicate, collaborate and think critically to meet the demands of life in the 21st century (Duffy, 2006; Korn-Bursztyn, 2012; Sinclair et al., 2012).
Using creativity in the classroom will create strong students and help better them for the future. Now, students are just being taught to what is on the test. They do not learn how to be leaders, how to work in groups, people skills, or how to use their mind that is not just for memorizing the information. “The challenge now is to transform education systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically different view of human intelligence and of creativity” (Robinson K., 2011, p. 14). Using creativity and technology will allow the students to enjoy learning more. I noticed in my final project, that other students who weren’t education majors, saw this problem too. Many of them did not see creativity in a classroom, they felt that the school system was creating them into robots that taught them all how to think a certain way. Ken Robinson feels that, “we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.” (2011, p. 49). Teachers should be teaching students how to be creative, and how to think on their own, so students will be able to go far in the future and succeed in any job they
There were notebooks full of drawings and stories I created, inspired by the stories I picked up in whatever it was I could read. fake movie descriptions, satires (or what would pass for them when you’re under ten) of popular things at the time, I even tried to write a fake radio show with my friends using a tape recorded and index cards in place of cue cards. Basically anything I could use as a launch pad for creativity or inspiration I would take in, be it movies, books, any art form.
In early childhood, teachers guide children’s artistic learning, which is then supported by peers (Wright, 2003). This is known as the guided approach. In this approach, teachers reflect, explore and plan together possible way to extend children’s artistic knowledge and skills. Furthermore, activities are deliberately open-ended to foster divergent thinking and support the process instead of the product (Mills, 2014). Teaching creative arts provides children a mode of communication and a medium for representing the world (Wright, 2003). Since children learn through play, creative arts is a platform for children to interact socially, explore emotions and develop motor skills (Mills,
Everybody; old and young have active an imagination, but we all express it differently than others. For me I express my imagination with my artwork. For example; when I was younger I watched a lot of cartoons just like any other kid. My favorite cartoon at the time was He-Man. I loved the show so much that I frequently dreamt and imagined of being strong like him, but I knew it could not be possible so instead of dreaming, I drew up an entire comic book of myself being a super strong super hero just like He-Man all thanks to my vivid imagination and artistic ability. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has done something similar.