Creativity: Response to Ken Robinson

Creativity can be taught to a certain limit. For example a teacher can give his or her own personal example of what is and is not creative. It is the role of teachers to evaluate and encourage students’ creativeness. In order to so, a teacher directs the student to certain paths that helps a student to develop ideas. Yet, the teacher cannot create their student’s ideas for them. Students have to be solely responsible for their creativeness. There is not simply one right answer in the area of creativity. In most situations, creativeness has an endless slew of answers one can develop. A teacher cannot teach creativeness in the same respect as a teacher would teach math, science or English.

Further, Ken Robinson said that he feels that creativity is as important as literature. I agree with his comparison. However, creativity is not on the same level as literature, music, math or any other school subject. Creativity is a tool that both students use to embellish. For example, one can use it to compose songs or write poems.

Moreover, creativity is vital to the 21st century. Creativity is something one uses in an attempt to improve and enrich his or her surroundings. These impacts can be extremely large or tiny. They can range from the creation of a novel to a short story written by a young child. There’s nothing wrong with the attempt to improve one’s life.

My Thoughts on Playing Roles for "No Child Left Behind" (8/5/09)

I personally thought the idea of role playing was a fun way for our class to interact with each other. It was fun to see the different attitudes and enthusiasm of other classmates. For example, when neither of professors let select groups speak. When this happened a sort of fun sense of frustration built up within the groups and certain people felt obligated to interrupt and contradict the professors.
I enjoyed the role play and I feel that the teaching technique used was more efficient. The other option to teach the topic would have consisted of a tradtional classroom setting, in which the teacher would simply lecture the class. Then the students would most likely have a quiz, in which they would memorize and regurgitate information. Because of role playing, I feel like I am more likely to remember the different viewpoints of "No Child Left Behind"in the future.

Passion

Personally, I'm not the best at math and I do not I really like it.
However, for a short while I had an excellent math teacher. Because I had him, math was more interesting and fun.

He added his own personality and spin to math. He was able to able to make a personal connection to students. This allowed the class to be more than just numbers and equations. He was funny and always encouraged everyone to succeed on their own level. Students in my class were not all at the same skill level. I noticed how he loved to see a student's personal progress. His enthusiasm for other's growth of knowledge is what interested me in math.