DIDACTIC UNIT.
Students enterprises in our school.
Creativity and Art.
Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.
" A product is creative when it is (a) novel and (b) appropriate. A novel product is original not predictable. The bigger the concept, and the more the product stimulates further work and ideas, the more product is creative." - Sternberg & Lubart, Defying the Crowd
The short answer is yes. George Land's study reveals that we are naturally creative, and as we grow up, we learn to be inactive. Creativity is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be driven.
Creativity begins with the foundation of knowledge, the mastery of discipline and the learning of a way of thinking. You can learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, challenging assumptions using imagination and synthesizing information. Learning to be creative is similar to sporting learning. It requires practice to develop the right muscles and a supportive environment to flourish.
The source of information:
https://www.creativityatwork.com/2014/02/17/what-is-creativity/
Tittle
A business in our school. Creativity and art.
Tittle
A business in our school. Creativity and art.
Justification of the didactic unit
”Creativity and art” is a unit designed to promote creativity in students enterprises at school.
George Land's study reveals that we are naturally creative, and as we grow up, we learn to be inactive. Creativity is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be driven.
Creativity begins with the foundation of knowledge, the mastery of discipline and the learning of a way of thinking. You can learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, challenging assumptions using imagination and synthesizing information. Learning to be creative is similar to sporting learning. It requires practice to develop the right muscles and a supportive environment to flourish.
The source of information:
We are going to encourage students to think not only of business and production of goods, but also about quiddity of a socially responsible company, e.g.company caring for the environment and recycling things.
Objectives of the unit
- To contribute to the development of interest education curriculum of the school.
- To explain what creativity and creative person are .
- To learn the basic vocabulary reffered to making crafts in both our mother tongue and in English.
- To encourage the new entrepreneurs to find examples, how to be creative in reusing things, materials and giving them the second life.
- The use of ICT in order to obtain information and to generate new ideas.
Specific vocabulary associated with creativity and art process in both our mother tongue and in English.
Explanation of what creativity and creative personality are.
Examples of creating things giving them the second life.
ICT: use of new information and communication technologies.
Contents of transversal treatment
Education about added value: the students will be able to understand that in the running a business important is not only profit but also non-material values, such as responsible treatment towards environment.Education about art: the students will be able to look at things and materials from more different viewpoints. They will be encouraged to experiment with the creating new things.
Promotion of inclusion: finding ideas of how to make interesting things from the simple and cheap materials will promote students from a low social and economic background to join the students enterprises.
Activities
Talk between entrepreneurs and the students.Workshops teching decoupage on the metal tins, making bracelets and necklaces from old newspapers.Small business project.
The students, in groups of at least two people, will create a small enterprise related to the buying and selling of handicrafts. Each group must work on all aspects of the business, starting with a business idea.
Scheduling and sessions
- 1º session: Workshop consisting of a talk in the school by local employers, about how they started their business, the difficulties that they faced, if they have to be creative.
- 2º session: Workshop consisting of a talk about creativity.
- 3º session: Brainstorming about handcrafts to produce, forming the small students enterprises, creating appropriate company names and logos.Presentations of the carried out ideas and business.
- 4º session: The students make the proposed handicrafts and find their own ideas.
- 5º session: Learning to present and advertise the enterprises in English.
Evaluation
Confering different nominations (carried out by special jury) to students enterprises participating in the school markets.
Our evaluation will be continuous, in order to detect difficulties at the time they occur, help students and to continue promoting their creativity.
