"For me, inciting fascination in students is the sign
of
good teaching.
When students become fascinated they
seek new knowledge,
discuss and challenge information
and then
apply these new thoughts
to
everyday life.
So how do YOU incite fascination
in students?
One simple process:
CREATIVITY
Creativitiy
provides students with the opportunity
to
process new thoughts.
It is during the CREATIVE process
that
fascination is stimulated.
Fascination
leads to
independent Ownership of NEW Knowledge.
Information ceases to be abstract concepts
imparted by a (BORING) talking head
& instead,
TRANSFORMS
into
colourful ideas
and
lines of thinking
that
EXCITE the mind of the child.
To teach instrumental music without creativity
is to teach mathematics without problem solving,
science without experiments
and
literacy without creative writing.
Imagine teaching visual art where students simply copy artworks already created by the masters?
Yes
they may acquire some skills
but when do they
relate that skill
to
their own personal identity?
When do they process that information
and regurgitate it with their own mutation?
When does it become...
fascinating
?
If we teach music in band without creativity,
we are not providing the opportunity for our students
to develop new, original thoughts about music.
To teach without creativity is to instruct.
To teach with creativity is to educate.
PLEASE EDUCATE YOUR STUDENTS."
Jodie Blackshaw, Faulconbridge, N.S.W. Australia 2014
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandala
