- Based on interview conducted by Hall Davidson with Sir Ken Robinson
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DEFINITION OF CREATIVITY
- having original ideas that have value
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it is not abstract but practical ie you have to do something
- Output is important
- Not an add on to school curriculum
- Engaging your imagination and working with other people's ideas
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ASSESSING FOR CREATIVITY
- look for evidence
- allow a broad range of opportunities to develop original ideas
- explore new thinking
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR
- Evidence in the environment
- Evidence in students' work
- Evidence in the school ie teachers, students and parents work
- Evidence in the attitude os the staff, students and parents alike
- The level of excitement in the school environment
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Raising Standards ??
- Not the opposite of raising standards. When you tap into student and teacher creativity, standards rise cause engagement rises
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HOW DOES A PRINICIPAL MOVE THE BALL FORWARD?
- A school culture is alive and growing
- Values and formative behaviour of groups
- All schools have culture so you see it in habits and habitats
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CREATIVE SCHOOLS HAVE INTERACTION BETWEEN DISCIPLINES
- Joint projects between:
- subject and disciplines
- teachers and teachers
- teachers and students
- ...across all age groups
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FIRST STEP IN CREATIVE EDUCATION
- Stop stopping it!
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Imagination
- Everyone has the power to be creative
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SIGN OF CREATIVITY IS THE LEVEL OF ENGAGMENT
- Engagement can be quiet, silent and meditating
- Engagement can be the complete opposite and interactive, communicative and collaborative
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CULTURE OF ENGAGMENT
- EQUALS INNOVATION+ CREATIVITY + ENGAGAMENT + LEARNING
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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP
- Not commnanding control but climate control
- Creating conditions to grow in school
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REVOLUTION OF EDUCATION
- Reversing model of National Standards
- Start at the ground up, how they teach and how they learn
- NOt forcing from the top down but cultivating from the bottom up
- Everybody needs to be focused on learning
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MANAGEMENT vs LEADERSHIP
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Leadership is about vision: Management is about organisation
- You need both!
- Management without vision = bureaucracy
- Leadership without organisation = Frustration