When we think of education we picture our children being taught by a teacher that has control over their class room. You drop off your child at school and you are confident that the teacher will do all they can to help your child succeed. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Teachers have many ways to help a child but at times they are very limited due to standards that they have follow. Teachers are more worried about teaching to the standards than expanding the child’s creativity. As Ken Robinson, author of "Creative Schools" claims that the problems in education are due to teachers only teaching to the standards. Michelle Montaigne and Robinson believe the solutions are considering students learning styles, creativity and having more …show more content…
This shows that teachers are only teaching to one learning style. In order to help all students, understand they should be taught in the way they will understand. Teachers should get together with previous teachers and even parents to get an idea of the students. If the teacher is able to have a better grasp on how their students learn better they will be able to provide a lesson plan according to their students’ needs. Having stations to help all students learning needs identifying the students learning style is key for the student’s success. Like Montaigne says, “we often spend a lot of time and effort for nothing, training children for things in which they cannot get a foothold”. This shows that no matter how much we spend telling a child something over and over, as a teacher we are unable to understand how they learn best they will not understand. What is the point of repetition when the student is unable to …show more content…
Montaigne writes “as those people want to train our understanding without setting it in motion”. This is a perfect example that we need to give students, opportunities to be creative in their own way. Training students to color inside the lines and not letting them expand their imagination is putting boundaries in their creativity. Telling students that they need to draw triangles for the body of girls is giving the students a narrow and straight way of thinking. When working on an assignment let them explore other ways to get the information. Not giving them coloring worksheets is one of the biggest examples, if we give children worksheets to only color the picture how is this expanding their creativity. This is shutting their brain off from thinking outside the box. Rather give them a blank piece of paper to draw what they think a flower looks like or a dog. Give them the chance to create on their own so that the mind can
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 notable Ted Talk video "Do schools kill creativity?", Sir Ken Robinson discusses how public education systems demolish creativity because they believe it is essential to the academic growth and success of students. Robinson created a broad arrange of arguments to persuade the viewers to take action on this highly ignored issue, and he primarily focuses on how important creativity is. There are classes within schools that help utilize creativity, but they are not taken seriously by adults in society. Therefore, the value of creative knowledge decreases. Robinson uses an unusual combination of pathos and ethos to make an enjoyable dispute for implementing an education system that nurtures rather than eats away at creativity.
Growing up, I contemplated a future in the education field; I enjoyed my experiences volunteering with children and I have always been intrinsically motivated to learn. When I started college, I decided to delve into the social sciences, but I never forgot about my interest in education. The summer of my freshman year, I joined the education team through the University of Arkansas’ community development program in Belize. I worked with my co-teacher (a senior education major), and education and literature professors to create creative writing lesson plans and methods to improve literacy for underperforming children. In Belize, my co-teacher and I facilitated daily literacy skill small groups for 2nd and 3rd graders and taught creative writing lessons with 4th and 5th graders. This experience not only strengthened my desire to work in education, but also awakened my awareness of how different levels of educational privileges affect students. I recognized, however, that while I was energized by this experience, I still lacked the skills and training that would allow me to most efficiently help
He opened my eyes to really think about how the education system is taking away children’s creativity. School systems are so focused on being college and career ready, they decapitating the creative capacities students have. I have observed personally how teachers will stigmatize mistakes. When observing a classroom and student does an art project, but the teacher takes points away because it was not what they imagined what the picture should be of. At schools today, math and language are offered at least an hour every day, but students are lucky to get an art or music class for thirty minutes each week. I think that all the tests put on teachers to prepare students has caused the breaking away from creativity even more. Teachers are so worried about getting the mandatory information to the class that they forget about the creative side of teaching. Ken Roberson explains it in a way that gets people engaged and listening about this situation without them realizing at what extent. Just like Sir Ken Roberson, I believe it is our job to educate all parts of a person to help impact the future. It is my duty to find ways to motivate my students in the classroom to be creative and create a future of people that is gaining more than head
...would be further motivated to love and study their subjects, and not be just thinking only about grades. If all teachers dedicate their human potential to their students, then students wouldn’t be scared to participate in discussions in spite of many stumbling barriers. The issues Ernest Boyer discusses in “Creativity in the Classroom” are of current interest not only in American educational system, but in my country as well. So,I would recommend this article to be discussed at teachers’ meetings in different types of educational institutions because the criteria of successful and creative teaching the author identifies in his article are universal and simple at the same time: just be dedicated to your job, care about your students, and don’t be afraid to learn and use new ideas in your classroom. Hence, creativity in the classroom often begins with a good teacher.
Classrooms of today are full of students with varying learning abilities and styles, therefore teachers are put in a position to involve each of their students equally so that everyone has the greatest chance of success in their learning. There are many different ways teachers are able to set up the learning environment in order to maximise teaching and learning and cater for the diverse needs of their students. I will attempt to discuss in detail some of these strategies and unpack the potential advantages and difficulties that follow.
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.
When art is used in a classroom, children have to be encouraged with sensitive guidance. Art can be integrated into a learning program with problem solving around projects. The teacher uses the product of an art activity to express the understanding of the concept. At a Reggio Emilio school, children are also encouraged to rework any artwork if they fail to convey the intended purpose of the project. The work is done in groups by the students but also planned in pairs by the teacher. By making the arts the core of the curriculum, societies can begin to reaffirm their cultural role in children.
A child’s drawing can tell so much about what they are thinking and feeling about their surroundings. They see things differently from adults and teens because when they are drawing or doing some sort of art they are not told that it is a “bad picture” or what ever they are doing is “not right.” They don’t have a limit upon their thoughts and ideas, but when they grow up, they do. Starting from the first day of school, they are taught about the wrong things and the right things. As we grow older there are more classes that have right and wrong answers to a question like, for example, math.
My teaching career has been spent learning how to provide appropriate support, guidance, patience, & understanding, as well as to enhance academic growth & success, for all students. My purpose as a teacher is to enrich and inspire the lives of young students with moderate/intensive needs by providing access to information instead of functioning as the primary source of information for students to flourish. My teaching methods will be to create an environment ripe with opportunities for discovery and exploration which will allow all students to learn at their own pace, generate questions and construct knowledge, while providing hands-on practice of skills in authentic situations as well as to make learning intriguing and meaningful to all students. Carefully planned and constructed learning environment will also allow the teacher more time to meet the individual needs of each student. Another important factor to a well-prepared learning environment is to facilitate learning, and providing students with balance and consistency (2004). Young students require a balance between various classroom dimensions, including activities guided by the teacher and independent work, quiet work and active work, gross motor and fine motor activities, and open and closed aspects to the curriculum and classroom materials (2004). Consistency is also a required condition for learner success. Schedules (daily and weekly), the enforcement of classroom rules, and student expectations should not be in flux but remain consistent. Without a sense of consistency in the classroom, school life would lack the necessary feeling of safety and reliability young children need to focus, to take risks, and to t...
Although art education is facing hardships today, it is imperative that someway and somehow it remains alive and functioning in our children’s classrooms. Without creative teaching our children will be faced with a colorless world lacking culture and diversity. Without artistic models, they will be forced to grow and learn in a world that lacks important life concept and ultimately will never be able to use their unique accepted wisdom they acquired in the classroom to appreciate the beauty and importance of the world they live in.
We ignore the plain fact that students learn at different rates and in different ways” (3). Furthermore, teachers are the main source of knowledge in the classroom. When teaching, teachers determine almost everything that happens within their classroom. Including what information they have students learn, and how they pass on that information. However, over the years, it has been neglected that every student learns differently. Additionally, it needs to be remembered that it is the students who are learning. A school system is needed that can retain all students’ curiosity, individuality, and creativity. For instance, whether it is the amount of homework given, the type of test, the pace of teaching, or the style of notes required, students should not be confined to only one way of
First, understanding that children may have a preferred learning style, she incorporates into her lesson plans the strategies which address visual learners, kinesthetic learners, and audio learners. Most children do not have just one learning style, therefore, they benefit through different learning centers. Learning centers include the science center, the math center, the art center, the library, the writing center, and the dramatic play center. Next, she uses teacher centered strategies to lead many of her lesson plans so that she can guide and coach the children through the activities. Since the children are very young, she feels modeling and coaching the children are the most productive techniques. She does try to create lesson plans that vary in complexity and challenge the children based on their own ability
Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone’s different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can reach each of our students and use all of the necessary methods.
In many cases, it has become very complex to keep students interested in their education. So the teacher must be creative and find ways to keep pushing the student onward as well as upward. In order to devise the ultimate plan for educating students, a teacher must acknowledge that the “students” are what teaching is all about. The most important factor in the equation is unequivocally the STUDENT! All humans are different in some sort or fashion. But the fact still exists that we all have only this place to function in. So help by putting forth an effort to make it a better place for us all.