Teoría classroom activities

CLASSROOM CREATIVITY














1. What is CREATIVITY?

Creativity: the ability to create, to be original, authentic, inventive, resourceful, genuine.

Being creative involves a lot more than just participating in the traditional “creative” activities: painting, writing, poetry, acting, or some other creative art form.

Creativity is a state of being, a way of mentalcompletion. A five-year-old drawing a house can be just as creative as a fifty-year designing an office building. A mother feeding her baby while reading to her three-year-old is quite as creative as a director balancing the needs of two actions, one of these women might be immersed in the creative flow or they might simply be getting the job done. It all depends on their relationship to the process.The difference between acting creatively and engaging in a routine activity has to do more with the outlook of the person than the desired result. Creativity involves being open and aware of the task at hand. If our mind is racing with thoughts of what must do tomorrow or concern about an upsetting incident that happened last week it becomes almost impossible to get into the creative flow.2. Characteristics of highly creative individuals.


“Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena.” Roger Von Oech, Expect the unexpected

Look at the following characteristics and think about yourself or other people who you perceiveas creative.

Highly creative people:

-Have the COURAGE to try new things and risk failure. Every big breakthrough starts as a harebrained idea. This doesn’t mean you should constantly go off the deep end, just that you should balance your routine portfolio of solutions with an investment in the new and untried. Over time, the risk is usually worth the reward.

-Use INTUITION as well aslogic to make decisions and produce ideas. When Matt Drudge designed his Web site, he listened to his gut instead of the Internet gurus. He kept it simple, small, fast, and some would say ugly and primitive. But it works for him, making The Drudge Report one of the most recognizable and popular sites in the world.

-Like to PLAY, since humor and fun are the ultimate creative act. Which is to sayyou just have to lighten up. We all have goals, and quotas, and deadlines, but it’s not life and death. When you enjoy yourself, your brain relaxes and is able to produce more and better ideas. One of those ideas may be just what you’re looking for.

-Are EXPRESSIVE and willing to share what they feel and think, to be themselves. Blogging is the ideal arena for injecting your personality intoyour work. People are emotional creatures and respond better to people who appear real, honest, and open. Not only is it more interesting, it can also be more persuasive.

-Can FIND ORDER in confusion and discover hidden meaning in information. Research and critical thinking are key tools for the creative person. Information is to the brain what food is to the stomach. So-called “writer’s block”or creative burnout almost always results from a lack of fresh information and having nothing meaningful to say.


-Are MOTIVATED BY A TASK rather than by external rewards. You must like the challenge of writing, explaining, teaching, and persuading. Sure, you can make money along the way, but if you’re in it just for the money, you’re not going to be a fountain of new ideas.

-Have a need toFIND SOLUTIONS to challenging problems. Even the most creative writers won’t have a solution for everything. If they claim to, they’ve stopped thinking. Highly creative people are those whose eyes light up at a question they can’t answer. That’s the opportunity to learn something new and produce remarkably creative content.

-Can MAKE CONNECTIONS between old ideas to produce new insights....