tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post653026791292876762..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: What matters is creativity.Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-55374935742188205542007-09-11T18:26:00.000+12:002007-09-11T18:26:00.000+12:00Thanks 'compass point' - great to get feedback fro...Thanks 'compass point' - great to get feedback from the USA. Enjoyed visiting your site. I am planning to keep writing about creativity - real creativity is not so common in our schools.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-7275535094148802282007-09-10T06:18:00.000+12:002007-09-10T06:18:00.000+12:00Thanks for another good post Bruce.http://thecompa...Thanks for another good post Bruce.<BR/>http://thecompasspoint.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-68040157865984390852007-09-09T14:23:00.000+12:002007-09-09T14:23:00.000+12:00Schools, particularly for older students, are noth...Schools, particularly for older students, are nothing to do with real free ranging open ended creativity, although it does exists in some individual subject 'compartments'. Care, though, is taken to see it is kept in its place - to show to parents, at special 'cultural events, that life is not all bread and water! These events are as well, all too often, limited to self selected 'gifted' students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-70261845834630368062007-09-09T11:32:00.000+12:002007-09-09T11:32:00.000+12:00I appreciate your point of view.Sylvia Ashton Warn...I appreciate your point of view.<BR/><BR/>Sylvia Ashton Warner one of New Zealands most creative teachers said, 'You can always tell a creative teacher, she is the one lying in the coridoor with an arrow in her back, fired by one of her fellow teachers.' <BR/><BR/>The biggest danger to real creativity is, as you say, mediocrity, and that is a word that sums up a lot of the so called 'creative' teaching one sees today. Teachers have fallen into the trap of 'exemplars', imposed 'criteria' and obsessive 'feedback' - all of which, if used badly, kills the creativity of students. As well it presumes teachers actually know what creativity is! <BR/><BR/>Real creativity is always a rare event, in any area of life, and is, at first, impossible to assess. Creative people require a undying passion, a thick skin, protection and supportive friends to survive, until the others catch up.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-44187239073614237862007-09-09T08:54:00.000+12:002007-09-09T08:54:00.000+12:00Very interesting observations! Some teachers label...Very interesting observations! Some teachers labelled as negative or not "teamplayers" experience similar difficulties as they confront the mediocrity of their peers and colleagues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com