Building and nurturing creativity

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• Primary Education

Building and nurturing creativity

Raquel Aran and Aina Parramon

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Draw a portrait of yourself

What was your first thought when we asked you to draw?

1. I don't know how to draw
2. I love drawing
3. This exercise is for kids

Creativity is not about arts but of living your life!

• We are used in a society where we classify things in good and bad
• We all know how to draw, it does not matter if you are good or bad
• Creativity is not about arts but of living your life!

What is being creative?

Developer 

Implementor

Clarifier

Ideator

What can we do as teachers?

The role of education is to awaken and develop the power of creativity

Emerging creativity....

1. Physical 

• Everyone is different.
• Create a safe environment in order that students can take risks. 

2. Mental

• Different learning styles a variety of stimuli to feed diverse learning styles. 

• Students need to know that someone cares about them!

3. Emotional

Give students an emotional climate where we support their ideas. 

"Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught"

Ai Weiwei

Thank you very much!