My progress on my GAME plan has been good, but now that the school year is over, I will have some difficulty implementing everything in the next two months. My goals involve providing projects that allow students a greater level of freedom to express creativity. I believe that I am often too structured in my teaching approach and that what needs to change is my teaching style. This will only happen if I focus on the creative aspect of projects when planning. I can do this by reminding myself during the planning of the projects of this important aspect. I also plan on asking colleagues how they ensure that their students can express their creativity to get some ideas.
I will be attending the ISTE conference in Denver this June. I am quite certain I will be able to get some good ideas on creativity and innovation and how I can incorporate these into my lessons.
For my last project of the year, I purposely did not provide as much structure as I normally do when students were creating their digital yearbooks using PowerPoint. In the rubric, 30% of their grade for the project was based on creativity. I saw some very creative animations in PowerPoint – some that I had never seen before. So, I think when we allow students the freedom to try things, they can be very creative. I am encouraged by this.
Chris Lorenz
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I find it very difficult to let my students have creativity without me first trying to build some structure around it to ensure that they are accomplishing the goals they need to. However, I am teaching elementary school and they need quite a bit of structure to stay on task. I will need to review and reflect to see if there are areas where I can "loosen up" a bit. Yet, the thought causes me anxiety...Yikes.
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