Inspiration 4 Teachers Podcast

“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.” ~ Sir Ken Robinson Creativity is not just associated with the arts.  It is the "generation of novel, useful ideas“ That means creativity is problem solving, that being the case, it means that it is a skill which can be taught.  It means that as teachers we can enrich our classrooms by constructing creative environments where our learners thrive on problems solving to develop new, innovative ideas as part of their learning journey.  As a teacher, the chances are that you are already being creative in your thought process in order to help your learners understand your subjects.  Teachers are the most creative beings when it comes to developing lessons resources that deconstruct topics, scaffold and reassemble to help students to learn.   But challenging learners to think creatively about a problem adds a new