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Category Archives: Creativity
No Country for Young Creatives
There are various ways to try and get your children to achieve the best possible results in their SATs tests, so that your school does well in league tables and avoids a data-related-forced-academisation-takeover disaster. You could trust that your … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Creativity, Testing
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Don’t Forget to Have Fun!
I’ve spent the last two days at the stunning St George’s Park, doing some sessions on creativity for the FA. It feels a bit weird to be saying that, but hey, go me! (#10%Braver @WomenEd) I was there to do some … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Creativity, Learning, Play
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Stardust
Creativity gets a weird press. Everyone mostly likes it, but I see people get upset with the idea of ‘being creative’ (especially the way Ken Robinson presents it), and people saying that creativity must be about gluing knowledge together with sticky … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Writing
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If you build it, they will come
Today I had the very great pleasure of presenting at the first NetworkEd conference. Thank you to Nancy Gedge for asking me. She built a conference, and lots of people came. It was lovely to be able to say ‘yes’ to something … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Confidence, Creativity, Early Years, Forest Club, Learning
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*The Magic Creative Cake*
It is an intuitive truth of teaching, that as a teacher you must model the behaviour you hope to receive. If you want your children to behave politely, you must speak to them in a polite manner yourself. If you … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Creativity
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Riding a Bike
Although knowledge is helpful in being creative, more knowledge does not necessarily lead to more creativity. You can probably think of some people who are very knowledgeable indeed, but who do not do creative things with the knowledge that they … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Creativity
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The Xylophone Technique
A few years ago, I met a teacher who told me he managed his classroom ‘By Xylophone’. When he said this, my first thought was “say what?”, my second thought was “that sounds cool”, and my third thought was “how on … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour, Creativity, Evidence
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