Teachers need to be creative and imaginative.

1. Are You Creative and
Imaginative?

2. What is creativity?

3. Bernadette Duffy (2006) defines creativity as:
• Ability to see things in fresh ways;
• Learning from past experiences and relating this
learning to new situation;
• Thinking along unorthodox lines and breaking
barriers;
• Using non-traditional approaches to solving
problems;
• Going further than information given; and
• Creating something unique

4. According to (NACCCE 1999) creativity is an imaginative
activity fashioned so as to produce outcomes that
are both original and of value.

5. There are five key concepts:
• Using imagination
• A fashioning process
• Pursuing purposes
• Being original

6. NACCCE distinguishes categories of originality:
• Historic
• Relative
• Judging value

7. Creativity and imagination maybe hard to define, but
they are part of what make teachers and students
uniquely human beings.

8. Duffy (2006) said that creativity is about connecting the
previously unconnected in ways that are new and
meaningful to the individual and imagination is about
internalizing perceptions and ascribing objects and
even with new meanings.

9. Through creative and imaginative endeavors,
the learners can:
• Communicate their feelings in non-verbal and pre-
verbal ways
• Express their thoughts
• Comprehend, respond and represent their
perceptions and understanding of the world
• Experience beauty and lasting value
• Express their cultural heritage and increase their
understanding of other cultures
• Solve problems and give mastery
• Gain self esteem

10. A learner-centered creativity is
characterized as: (LUCAS 2001)
• Being respectful rather than dismissive
• Encouraging active not passive learning
• Engaging many learning styles
• Encouraging and exploring emotional
responses
• Posing questions not statements
• Offering ambiguity rather than certainties
• Being open-ended, rather than closing down

11. • Being known as surprising, rather than predictable
• Offering many patterns to varied environments
• Recognizing multiple intelligences
• Including visual representations as well as auditory
ones
• Including tactile and experience based activity
• Stimulating social as well as private learning

12. Fostering teachers as those who:
• Encourage students to learn independently
• Have a co-operative socially integrative style of
teaching
• Do not neglect the mastery of factual knowledge
• Promote self evaluation
• Takes questions seriously
• Offer opportunities to work with varied materials
under different conditions
• Help students to cope with frustrations and failures
• Reward courage as much as being right

13. Creativity is an indispensable tool of the teacher to
create an enjoyable, productive and fun-learning
environment. It is an instrument for the learners to
digest and go beyond to what has been taught.
Albert Einstein stated that imagination is more
important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited
while imagination embraces the whole world.

14. Presented by:
Daisy Navales
Glorifel Nuñez
Shondra Pagalan
Ed Charles Pasia