Modeling Creativity in the Classroom
In their book How to Develop Student Creativity, authors Robert Steberg and Wendy Williams state, "The most powerful way to develop creativity in your students is to be a role model. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to, but when you show them."
One way to model creativity is to show imagination in teaching. Nancy Flanagan, a 31-year teaching veteran from Michigan, had great success when she developed an interdisciplinary program that traced the history of music for her middle school band students. "It was amazing how the students responded," she says.
As a final project, Flanagan had the students create a piece of music in a historical style of their choice. Although she gave them four weeks to complete the project, Flanagan says her students were so enthusiastic that, after she gave the assignment on Friday, most of them had completed it by the following Monday.
"The works they did were terrific," she says. "Students sat down at their keyboards, put their creations on disc, and used technology."
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