CU1565 Promote Creativity and Creative
Learning in Young Children
1.1 - Analyse the differences between creative learning and creativity.
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning, and their ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved through providing a creative environment, allowing exploration through play and praising creative efforts.
Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a
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2.1 - Demonstrate in own practice how to promote creativity and creative learning.
For example, during a cooking activity children are learning many skills through the creative process. They may feel happy and excited about creating their own food. They are sociable by working with adults to assist them and cooking for their friends or family members. By following instructions either written or verbal and measuring quantities they are being allowed to develop intellectually. Knowing when to ask for help and starting a dialogue around what they are doing and using can help develop communication skills especially listening and taking direction. Finally all the mixing, chopping, kneading and picking up small cut up pieces are physically developing the fine motor skills, hand eye co-ordination and building hand and arm muscles.
2.2 - Explain why young children require extended and unhurried periods of time to develop their creativity.
An unhurried period of creativity gives children time to explore and experiment with materials and use them in their own way. It also allows children to do their best work by moving from popular to more original ideas and being able to come back to it at a later date to finish.
3.1 - Explain the feature of an environment that supports creativity and creative learning.
A creative environment needs to allow children easy access to different materials and be able to move these from one place to another. It is not just about
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning and ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved through providing a creative environment allowing exploration through play and praising creative efforts. Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to
Children’s creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning and their ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved by providing a creative environment, allowing exploration through play and praising the child’s creative efforts. Creative learning is about helping children develop imaginative thinking through exploration of materials, objects and problem solving skills like ICT. It is also about giving children opportunities to make connections between different areas and to relate to them. Some creative learning activities may be goal orientated like the
Creative development is important to a child’s learning because it helps them to use their mind and imagination and express their own ideas, and through playing with their friends it also helps them to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It helps them to make connections in their thinking and the way in which they problem solve, by doing things over and over again they reinforce their thinking and learning, they develop self-esteem, confidence, imagination & learning to work together in groups. It puts down the foundations for more
What creativity actually is when you use your imagination, allowing things in the mind to occur that wouldn’t actually occur and also things to better the world. “Being creative is not only about thinking: it is about feeling” (160). You can not just think but you have to have feelings to make sure that you doing things right and feeling like you made something productive in the time. Being creative requires a long process, “magination which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that
Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a child being absorbed in their own actions and ideas.
The use of creative activities provide children opportunities to relate to ‘the self’ and to reflect; the encouragement to discuss what they are expressing, according to Vygotsky (1962), is vital in learning and developing within the social environment where they are constantly problem solving. Verbalisation of their ideas enables children to begin self-directed
Every person needs a form of creativity, whether you are an adult or a child. Creativity can
Being creative with children gives them a sense of having some control and feeds a young child's imagination. They learn new and different ways of doing things. It not only helps them find out what they are good at, but also what they enjoy doing. They also learn that they can trust themselves by becoming their very own problem-solver. It teaches them to do what they like, and still be accepted for who they are. Imagination makes play time fun for both the children and the parent's. Feeding into my children's imagination
16. Development in creative thinking: Kids who study the arts can learn to think creatively. This kind of education can help them solve problems by thinking outside the box and realizing that there may be more than one right answer.
As explained in "Helping Children Play Creatively", creative play allow children to use their imaginations, develope critical thinking and problam-solving skill, and even develope social skills. Organized events, such as sports and Scouts have rules, which limit how much a child can do, and how far they are able to explore their inner selves. Allowing a child to be creative - imagine, create, draw, build, and even renovate - will give them the opportunity to test out their ideas, try new things, mix things up, and even find new ways to make things work when something is going how they imagined it would.
Creative play is something that teaches children to think for themselves. To express their thoughts and ideas in a healthy, fun way. They may discover things about themselves that they could have possibly never have known about themselves. Maybe they love to paint, to write, to act. They can explore their creativity, and themselves, in the process. If their day is filled
Creativity can help a child learn and work through emotions, provides opportunities for problem solving, trying out new ideas, and new ways of thinking. Hands On Scotland , a website dedicated to improving the well-being of children through
Today students are natural producers and consumers of information. It is a natural ability which possesses every student. In the traditional classroom, it was not valued enough so today teachers should use every opportunity to promote creativity. The teacher should encourage students to analyze the information they learned and to make new connections with that information. Doing rewarding projects and meaningful tasks give them challenges to show their creativity. When you ask them what they would like to create you will get different responses. Students need the freedom to express their new ideas without judgment. They are constantly searching ways to express their creativity and uniqueness and creative student have the courage to make a
Creativity is in all of us often we failed to see it. We think art, design, and marketing are creative. However, creativity lies in every field that you are curious in. There is no definite space that creativity exists in. Obviously, this idea struck me later. I also thought a creative person was the one who could compose rhyming poems and stories, who could draw beautiful pictures, or who could sing and dance effortlessly and I also wanted these skills, but it was impossible. Later, I found out, I was creative too. I enjoyed the challenges problems in math and science classes. And thinking to solve a problem in various ways is also being a creative. Hence, creativity can be learned in the fields that you are curious in and not from sitting in a lecture, but by learning and applying creative thinking processes.