Opening up
creativity
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Why open up creativity?
Barriers?
How?
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We are preparing young
people for jobs that
don’t yet exist…
requiring technologies
that haven’t yet been
invented…
to solve problems of
which we are not yet
aware.
“The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
Alvin Toffler - 1972
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OECD report
… who you are is far more
important than what school
you attend….
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“In times of change, learners
inherit the Earth, while the
learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with
a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
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It is clear that the future will
require a population with the
confidence and skills to meet the
challenges posed by fast and farreaching change.
Graham Donaldson
2006
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•Social and intellectual capital will become economic
drivers, intensifying competition for well-educated
people.
•Technology will increase the speed of communication
and the pace of advancement or decline.
•Standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for
personalization in an education system increasingly
committed to lifelong human development.
•Release of human ingenuity will become a
primary responsibility of education and society.
Gary Marx
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We need, now
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Better learners not more learned people
Ambitious and moral citizens
Active citizens
ICT literate and skilled
Creative
Who can take and create opportunities
BECAUSE>>>>>>
Raising achievement matters
•For individuals
–Increased lifetime salary
–Improved health
–Longer life
•For society
–Lower criminal justice costs
–Lower health-care costs
–Increased economic growth
Barriers?
Perceived or real?
Discuss
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Teaching to the test?
Climbing levels?
Narrow tramlines,
minimal learning to
learn?
Limited skills?
Lack of cultural
validity?
Lack of creative
integrity?
Spoon feeding?
Policy is removing barriers
Test driven curriculum
or
curriculum driven tests ?
One size fits all
or
one size fits me ?
I can pass a test
or
I can show that I can learn ?
Test it because we can
or
test it because it matters ?
Learning for assessment or assessment for learning ?
Arts if you’re chosen
or
personalisation and choice
within arts
ENTITLEMENT TO?
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Arts if you’re chosen
or
personalisation and
choice within arts
ENTITLEMENT TO?
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Within a rich, supportive environment teachers will draw
on a skilful mix of approaches to promote a climate of
creativity and innovation, including:
•Active involvement in creative activities and
performances
•Tasks or performance opportunities which require a
creative response
•Partnerships with professional performers or artists and
other creative adults
•The majority of activities involve creating and presenting
and are practical and experiential.
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How?
Discuss
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:
What is
opening up
learning?
Working with people – and permeating
Outcomes of A
Curriculum for
Excellence
Strategies
relating to
Assessment for
learning
Teaching for
effective
learning
Permeating – Inclusion and Success for ALL
BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY
Creating
Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.
Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analysing
Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
Applying
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Remembering
Recalling information
Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding
Higher
order
learning
skills
Attention
skills
Confidence to
try
Challenge
through CfE
Brainstorming
Analogical
thinking
Active
learning
Self-reflection
Inquiry
skills
Resilience
Consolidating
Applying
Hearts and minds
Do I want to?
Does the arts community want to?
Do we all really understand the
difference?
Am I prepared to change?
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