An approach that also helps children to collaborate and listen, challenge and discover, fail and grow, think and reflect. The three R’s are still important; it’s just that there is more than one way of helping students achieve them.
In low socio-economic areas this issue might be particularly marked. Research shows that creativity might be able to help ease or eliminate that difficulty, or increase achievement for those students who can already cope well.
These partnerships address a priority learning area—mathematics, HASS or science—and employ creative ways of teaching the curriculum; ways that make children solve problems by using their imagination or by making things.
the school is in a multi-cultural area where many families have some socio-economic disadvantage. The children say: “we do lots of discovering!” Teachers say: “students’ willingness to try something challenging is now so much better than before.” The parents say: “my son was proud … really happy”
FORM developed Creative Schools for Western Australia in partnership with Culture & Creativity in Education, a global organisation dedicated to transforming the learning experience of children to prepare them for the opportunities and careers of the twenty-first century.
Creative Schools is being rolled out in more Western Australian schools during 2019.
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