Fostering creativity in the early childhood classroom

Most early childhood teachers would tell you that creativity is important; and that creativity should be considered an integral part of every early childhood classroom. Yet, too often, it is slighted in some areas or limited to being a part of art education. How can creativity can be nurtured and developed in all cognitive and social aspects of an early childhood classroom? The key to this fostering of creativity is for each teacher to examine his or her own filters that can help to foster, or hinder, as the case may be, creativity in that classroom setting. By examining adult attitudes, classroom atmosphere, and children's activities and materials, and adjusting, where necessary, to incorporate certain positive elements for creativity, early childhood educators are more likely to establish a trusting, flexible, and safe environment that allows and stimulates the creative process in an atmosphere of respect.     

Classroom contexts for creativity

Various factors influence the development of creative potential, including everything from individual differences to the kinds of experiences and opportunities that creators experience throughout the lifespan. When it comes to nurturing creativity in the classroom, the learning environment is one of the most important factors – determining, in large part, whether creative potential will be supported (or suppressed). In short, classroom context matters. It is one thing to recognize that the classroom environment impacts the development of creative potential, it is quite another to understand just what it takes to develop an optimally supportive creative learning environment. This is because many of the features of optimal learning environments are quite subtle and even counterintuitive. In this paper, we discuss insights from the research on how teachers might establish a creativity-supportive learning environment in their classroom.     

以情感互动为平台,构建和谐化学课堂

目前学生在课堂教学上缺乏创造力得以发展的学习空间,缺乏一种关系和谐、能力发展的教学氛围。从教学心理、氛围、行为、评价四个方面论述了构建和谐化学课堂的一些措施。     

高中化学课堂有效提问的策略

教师课堂提问的目的、所提问题的类型和水平以及教师课堂提问的各个环节,都会影响提问的有效性。课堂有效提问是教学有效性的具体体现,问题设计应注意明确问题的类型与层次,增强问题设计的针对性。有效的课堂提问要有启发性、时机性、趣味性和生活性。     

Primary Teachers' beliefs about Scientific Creativity in the Classroom Context

While a number of studies have investigated people's perceptions or conceptions of creativity, there is a lack of studies looking into science teachers' views. The study aimed to explore the meanings of scientific creativity in the classroom context as perceived by a selective group of upper primary (Grades 3–6; student ages 8–12) science teachers (n?=?16) in Taiwan. Using a self-report, open-ended questionnaire and follow-up interviews, the participants responded to questions as to (1) what quality, behaviours and abilities characterise a creative learner in their science classrooms, (2) what a science classroom should be like if it is to facilitate scientific creativity, and (3) whether and what particular elements of the inquiry approach are incorporated in such a classroom. The analyses revealed that the teachers captured the central features of creativity and proposed diverse ideas about how to foster creativity in school science, but seemed to overlook some aspects, such as convergent thinking, problem-finding, and linking the arts and science. These missing features are regarded as important for scientific creativity in contemporary research. The findings were discussed along with their implications for teacher education and future research.     

课堂环境与学生创造力培养研究

学生创造力的培养是现代教育的重要目的,课堂是培养学生创造力的主渠道。深入探讨课堂环境与学生创造力之间的关系,营建安全、自由的课堂环境,有助于促进学生创造力的发展。     

妨碍学生创造力培养的课堂教学因素分析

学生创造力的培养是现代教育的重要目的,课堂教学是培养学生创造力的重要方式。然而,当前的课堂教学中存在着诸多妨碍学生创造力培养的因素,如创造力观念的偏差,课堂教学观念的偏颇,师生关系的僵化,课堂气氛的沉闷。基础教育改革就应克服以上弊端,营造出有利于学生创造力培养的课堂教学氛围,促进学生创造力的发展。     

Teacher and student perceptions of creativity in the classroom environment

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers and students perceptions about characteristics which either stimulate or inhibit the development of creativity in the classroom environment. Interviews were conducted with seven Connecticut public school teachers and 31 students (grades 3 and 4). The findings suggest that both teachers and students believe that a classroom environment which enhances creativity provides students with choices, accepts different ideas, boosts self‐confidence, and focuses on students’ strengths and interests. On the other hand, in an environment which inhibits creativity, ideas are ignored, teachers are controlling, and excessive structure exists.     

超常儿童内部动机与创造力的关系:课堂同伴互动的中介作用

探究课堂环境中的同伴因素在超常儿童内部动机与创造力关系中的影响对培养超常儿童创造力的教育实践有重要意义.本研究选取277名3-6年级普通班中的超常儿童,采用《学习自我调节量表》、《创造性课堂环境问卷》以及改编的创造力测评工具对其内部动机、课堂同伴互动水平及创造力水平进行评估,分析三者的相关关系,并建立结构方程模型,验证...     

Connections teachers make between creativity and arts learning

Background: Creativity is often cited as one of the capacities that needs to be actively encouraged in all aspects of schooling. However, what creativity is and how it may be promoted through formal teaching and learning approaches remain contested. There are also differences between educators in terms of how they understand, discuss and conceptualise this complex concept.

Purpose: This paper focuses on the difficulties associated with talking about creativity in education. It considers the ways in which schoolteachers who are involved in the area of arts education understand, describe and discuss the concept of creativity and how it interacts with their classroom practice.

Sample: Twenty-three educators who taught Arts (either as generalist primary classroom teachers or as specialist teachers), and the leadership team from a Kindergarten to Year 9 (pupil ages 5–15) school in the suburbs of a city in the Australian state of Victoria participated in the project.

Design and methods: In this phenomenological study, data were gathered from participants through questionnaires, discussion groups, email prompts and reflective journals. The material was analysed qualitatively.

Findings: By examining the teachers’ dialogic and discursive responses about creativity, it was possible to capture some broad ways in which the participants spoke about creativity. Data were analysed thematically and grouped into categories that represented the connected ‘creative orientations’: thinking orientations, action orientations, emotion orientations and skill/outcome orientations.

Conclusion: There is a need for educators in and across a range of discipline areas to share, map and think about creativity. The approach adopted in this exploratory study offers a way that could be used to focus discussions and help facilitate educators’ talk about creativity.     

Cultivating creative mentalities: A framework for education

In so far as education has acknowledged creativity at all, it has commonly focused on ‘allowing’ rather than ‘developing’ creativity, on arts-based ‘experession’ rather than broader or deeper kinds of creativity; and on the role of techniques rather than dispositions. This paper seeks to redress the balance by arguing for a range of candidate ‘habits of mind’ that are conducive to general-purpose creativity, and focusing on some of the aspects of classroom culture that seem to be conducive to the development of these habits of mind. Two practical examples from action research projects carried out over the last four years in Cardiff are used to illustrate the potential of this approach. It is suggested that this kind of ‘gentle persuasion’ may well have greater long-term value than the kind of bolt-on reative binges that are sometimes found in primary schools.     

浅谈如何在教学实践过程中培养表演专业创造型人才

在表演教学中,对创造型人才的培养是至关重要的。这就要求教师不断地改进教学方法,提高自身专业技能和素质,使学员在学习过程当中开拓思维,成为具有创造性的艺术人才。培养学生的创造力离不开对学生想象力的培养。想象是演员进行形象思维的重要前提,在整个创作中,想象是引导演员的先锋。艺术教育有别于其他的教育,"一"对"一"的教学是它的教学特点,在教学中不能一刀切,要有针对性,做到对每一个学生因材施教,激发学生的创造性,拓展学生的想象空间。通过提升教师的自身素质和创造能力能使教学更加良性互动。     

学校教育中阻碍学生创造力发展因素研究

当前学校教育中存在着种种阻碍学生创造力发展的因素。对创造力认识的偏颇、程序化的课堂教学、沉闷的课堂气氛、不合理的评价制度是抑制学生创造力发展的主要因素。     

构建生态化教学视角的高校思想政治理论课和谐课堂

生态化教学视角下如何构建高校思想政治理论课为和谐课堂,要真正贯彻落实"以学生为主体,教师为主导"的教育理念,在两个主体的和谐发展中构建和谐课堂;采取积极有效的教学方法,努力激发大学生学习思政课的积极性,营造互动和谐的教学氛围;努力使课堂教学中的教学内容、教学方法、师生关系、课堂氛围、教学环境等要素间处于相互协调、相互促进与和谐发展的状态,增强思政课的实效性。     

Attitudes of school role groups toward learning needs of gifted students

The cognitive approach to creativity emphasizes the processes involved in producing effective novelty, as well as the control mechanisms that regulate novelty production, and the structures that result. Merely novel structures display surprisingness and incongruity, to be sure, but they must also be meaningful and practicable to be effective. There are no special processes or control mechanisms unique to the production of effective novelty, but metasystematic operations are particularly favorable for it. Effective novelty can be produced at lower levels of cognitive development, but children's creativity is likely to differ qualitatively from that of adults. Although the cognitive approach takes little account of motivation, personality, or the social environment, it provides an operationizable definition of some aspects of creativity, and offers insights into what needs to be fostered to promote it.     

基于网络教室背景下的远程教学策略探究

随着计算机网络技术和多媒体技术的日渐成熟,多媒体网络教室已经成为目前国内远程教育系统中发展迅速、广泛应用的信息技术设备。网络教室在远程教育中具有优化教育、教学过程的宝贵特性,这些特性的如有充分利用,将可更好地发挥辅导教师的主导性和创新性,学员的主动性与创造性,从而为学员创新能力的培养营造良好的教学环境。     

对高校学前教育专业美术课堂教学质量提高的探索

根据高校学前教育专业《美术教学大纲》的规定,学前教育专业美术课周课时一般为2学时,要按时完成众多的教学内容,无疑要求教师必须要重视课堂教学。本文试图从美术教师的人格魅力、在教学中引领新的教学观念和创新教学实践、在教学中开发各种资源激发学生的创造力等方面进行探讨,有效提高学前教育专业美术课堂教学质量。     

From passive to active: The impact of the flipped classroom through social learning platforms on higher education students' creative thinking

This study aimed to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom on the promotion of students' creative thinking. Students were recruited from the Faculty of Education at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia during the first semester of 2014. A multiple method research design was used to address the research questions. First, a two‐group quasi‐experimental design was implemented. The first group utilised the lecture‐based strategy (n = 28), while the second group utilised the flipped classroom (n = 27). Second, a survey questionnaire was distributed to assess the students' views about the flipped classroom, its role in the promotion of creativity and the difficulties students experienced with this strategy. The findings suggest that the flipped classroom may promote students' creativity, especially with regard to fluency, flexibility and novelty. Furthermore, the students viewed the flipped classroom as an approach that may significantly facilitate their creativity. However, several difficulties were associated with the flipped classroom, especially the students' limited preparation for this strategy. Accordingly, students must be prepared to utilise the flipped classroom and be provided with adequate e‐learning tools. In addition, it is important to consider students' study load and to provide meaningful in‐class activities.     

论英语课堂学生资源的合理开发和利用

学生资源是指来源于学生的课程资源。在英语课堂上合理地开发和利用学生资源有助于发挥学生英语学习的主动性,提高学生的英语学习兴趣,激发学生的创造性,而且还有助于实现教学目标,提升英语课堂教学效果。在英语课堂上,应从四个方面来合理开发和利用学生资源,同时英语教师应从五个方面来提高学识、能力等素质。