There’s a
growing resistance to creative approaches within the classroom. Administration
is of course reluctant to embrace such ideas because they’re new and unproven,
but what concerns me the most is the resistance coming from the students.
I
frequently come up with odd ideas in terms of presenting lessons and projects
for the students to do that stretch them creatively as well as academically. I
think that these are related and must both be stretched in order for true
growth to occur. It is the creative mind that posits the impossible as
something achievable, and is responsible for so many of the wonders we have
today.
So I have
growing concerns over an increasing population of the students I teach that want
nothing to do with creative projects. They would rather someone tell them,
step-by-step, what must be done, what they must think, and simply do that.
I don’t
know yet how to overcome this problem.
But I am
still working on it. That’s why I’m so creative.