ATE-Course: Creativity

• EMI-course
• HBO
• Studiejaar 1-4

Class description

• 2nd year of Applied Biology - Education and Nature (HEEN)
• Final assessment: Development of an educational activity for one of the forests around Almere.
• Training 'Creativity'  
• Group size: 25-30 students
• Level of English: B1-B2
• Native Dutch speakers

Creativity 

Goal for today

The student can come up with multiple new ideas for their final assesments

Let's start!

You need:

• Paper
• Pencil

What do you see?

• Look at the drawing
• Write down at least 5 different interpretations of this drawing

• Compare your answers to the answers of your neighbor 
  

• Compare answers to the rest of the class 

Discussion

• Difficult?
• What do you need to see more than 1 interpretation of the drawing

Important in creativity

1. Diverge in ideas 
2. Associate freely
3. Delay of judgement

Delay of judgement

Case study:

For your final assessment, the state forestry (Staatsbosbeheer) has asked you to develop an educational animal-fucussed activity for children from 6-10 years old for the city estate 'The Kemphaan' in Almere.

Assignment

Together with your neighbor, write down at least 5 different ideas for your activity

Think about the 3 important points in creativity

Which ideas did you think of?