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Barriers to Fostering Originality and Creativity in Students

September 26, 2019 By Academy Staff 697 Comments

What do you see as the biggest barriers to fostering originality and creativity in students?

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Jo Hartley
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Jo Hartley

The vision to let them be themselves rather than having to constantly be categorised into a box that society has created for them.

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15 days ago
Irina Castellano
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Irina Castellano

The limits and boundaries we put into Primary school playgrounds is where it starts too. No cartwheels, nothing in your hands so you can’t hurt someone etc. etc.
Let kids have some items and let them create new games, less restrictions at home, at school, less at work with constant OHS issues etc.
But of course people sue about anything and everything and that’s another issue of society.

A healthy amount of non restrictions so more things can be played with, imagined with etc.

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19 days ago
Jo Hartley
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Jo Hartley

Absolutely agree – i love just watching my kids and tell my husband all the time to “just watch them” – their imagination is inspiring!

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15 days ago
Sharryn
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Sharryn

the curriculum these days is very tight and there is more and more less time to teach. It is often the case as assessments expand teachers find themselves often teaching to the assessment schedule which stifles originality and creativity.

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1 month ago
Wade Azmy
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Wade Azmy

I really see automation as a threat to creativity in students

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8 months ago
Jo Hartley
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Jo Hartley

Mee too! Even in free time at schools they are told what they can and cant do!

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15 days ago
Bhavna
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Bhavna

Following a prescriptive approach doesn’t foster originality. The focus is on what needs to be written to clear the assessment.

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8 months ago
Penelope
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Penelope

We need a system change preferably one that looks at the real job market which will involve taking away the restraints of the curriculum which is now apparent is no longer reflecting the current job opportunities for the learner

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8 months ago
Amy
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Amy

Time. We don’t have time to teach the content, let alone time to consistently deliver it in ways that enable the development of creativity. The system requires the boxes to be ticked, and it is hard to quantify, so they don’t ask for it or allow time for it to be developed.

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8 months ago
Wade Azmy
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Wade Azmy

I agree this is not an activity within the original scope, but now we need to change the scope if we want to transform the system

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8 months ago
Irina Castellano
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Irina Castellano

Yes, too many things have to be covered and it does not leave much time for playing games on the topic, in order to learn to think outside the box. Many subjects could be brought across in other ways, if we had more time in class.

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19 days ago
Julie Barkman
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Julie Barkman

The restraints of the curriculum

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8 months ago
Amy
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Amy

agree!

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8 months ago
Penelope
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Penelope

I agree with you 100%

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8 months ago
Leanne Lockrey
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Leanne Lockrey

The bigger systems…..being told what to think, tick the box attitudes, not allowing individuals to explore, discover or imagine!!

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8 months ago
Penelope
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Penelope

yes, the box-ticking and death by worksheet is hindering today’s students

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8 months ago
Bhavna
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Bhavna

that is aptly said.

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8 months ago
Michelle Wein
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Michelle Wein

Safe spaces and time to play with the idea.
Usually we don’t allow nor permit the time to “try”.

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8 months ago
Leanne Lockrey
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Leanne Lockrey

I agree. We are always feeling ‘time pressured!’.

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8 months ago
Julie Barkman
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Julie Barkman

Time is an issue.

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8 months ago
Bhavna
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Bhavna

We all seem to be hard pressed with time and so are the students.

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8 months ago
Elizabeth Anthony Lee
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Elizabeth Anthony Lee

We all have mental barriers to creativity and innovation in our heads.The knowledge barrier is one of the main barriers to creativity and innovation. It exists because your creative potential is largely influenced by your personal experience and knowledge, your character traits and your creative abilities. How to overcome this barrier to creativity and innovation

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8 months ago
Michelle Wein
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Michelle Wein

Very thoughtful. The good thing I guess is that we can expand our knowledge with our commitment to learning.

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8 months ago
Visnja Simovic
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Visnja Simovic

If the time and effort required to produce something creative and original is not assessed, students may not see the purpose or point of spending the time and effort doing it.

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8 months ago
Irina Castellano
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Irina Castellano

So true as it is the generation that will only do or learn things when they see a real need or purpose for it 🙂

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19 days ago
ian
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ian

Whenever i have introduced exercises such as simulated industrial experience into the lesson it generates a great deal of creativity and original thought as well as a competitive aspect. Thus deviating from the norm of curriculum content is sometimes beneficial in fostering creativity.

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9 months ago
Leanne Lockrey
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Leanne Lockrey

Yes. Often our assessments do not allow &/or encourage students creativity or original thoughts…..the answer is either right or wrong 🙁

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8 months ago
Tayce Grosser
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Tayce Grosser

Time. I am early childhood/ primary trained and I have spent a lot of time studying the benefits of play based learning, theoretically this is fantastic. The benefits of this are wide spread and positively impact on all developmental domains. In reality though, there is only so much time in a day, and unfortunately non-structured, play based learning is difficult to assess. These benefits, however valuable, do not align well with the outcomes of our syllabus. Yes we can incorporate some of these principles into our existing teaching and assessment, however if we are guiding children’s play to suit an… Read more »

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9 months ago
Michelle Wein
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Michelle Wein

This seems a sad reality when kids can no longer be kids because it falls outside of a structured program/approach. And we are all slaves to the agenda passed onto us by work

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8 months ago
Casey C
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Casey C

Definitely the lack of free time. Students are pushed from one subject area to the next without time to be creative. There is so much pressure on achieving results, that the free time/thinking time just doesn’t exist.

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9 months ago
Tayce Grosser
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Tayce Grosser

I 100% agree

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9 months ago
Colleen
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Colleen

Originality/creativity is something that I have felt has been lacking for quiet some time. when you take this outside of the classroom how often are we seeing people involved in undertaking creative activities. It is like we are loosing a whole range of skills because we are not encouraged to be creative but it is more socially accepted to be on devices and being creative. When you put this back in the classroom it seems as if this relates to us all following the exact same pathway as each other and what has been before. Bring back that creativity.

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9 months ago
Fiona
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Fiona

I believe one of the biggest barriers is a rigid Syllabus that is content heavy and assessment driven.

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9 months ago
Colleen
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Colleen

And that is what I believe is our challenge. We all know that the content and assessments are what we have to work towards but it is the journey we take our students on to get to that point that will make the difference.

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9 months ago
Casey C
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Casey C

I agree wholeheartedly, Fiona. Teachers would love to be more creative. Students would love to be more creative, but to be creative requires time and space.

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9 months ago
ian
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ian

I totally agree and this leaves no time for creativity or originality .

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9 months ago
Elizabeth Anthony Lee
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Elizabeth Anthony Lee

I agree with you-students were thrown in at the deep end due to pandemic and no adjustments were made hence I believe that creativity is considered as a mean not an end, thus in the field of education, teaching and learning, it is introduced and observed to instil higher-order thinking skills in student Stress barriers for creativity are all factors that can cause the blockage of creativity due to stress. These factors can be emotional, mental or even physical problems because of having to make an enormous adjustment.

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8 months ago
ben
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ben

For My students it is the need to conform to assessment criteria, performance evidence and demonstration of knowledge set out by a governing body that doesn’t make allowances for creative non-conforming student submissions.

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9 months ago
Fiona
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Fiona

I agree Ben, particularly for upper school/ATAR students who are driven by the need to perform well in order to enter a desired university course

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9 months ago
Colleen
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Colleen

Join the discussion…As a vocational teacher it never seems to amaze me that upper school students only ever hear about one way to achieve their desired career. We must always remember that their are back doors as so to speak to get where they want to in their life. It does not matter so much if it is not the quickest way there. Just remembering that some times life’s journeys teach valuable life long lessons that have to be learnt before the student can move forward in their career development.

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9 months ago
Tayce Grosser
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Tayce Grosser

Absolutely! Conformity with standardised norms hardly leaves much room for creativity or imaginative thinking. Not to mention that these characteristics don’t always grade well in this system, only compounding the issue.

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9 months ago
Amy
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Amy

So true

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8 months ago
Nicole
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Nicole

As a teacher, it is difficult to foster this in students when we are so laden with paperwork and ensuring we all ‘stay within the lines’.

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9 months ago
Colleen
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Colleen

Join the discussion…Knowing how to bend those lines is our challenge. We also need to be the leaders in creativity.

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9 months ago
Casey C
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Casey C

I agree, Nicole. We’d all love to foster this creativity and originality, but we have certain outcomes and tasks to perform.

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9 months ago
Visnja Simovic
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Visnja Simovic

Yes I agree. The need to follow processes and procedures to meet exit requirements takes over.

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8 months ago
Teresa Munro
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Teresa Munro

Not embracing “left field” ideas because we are not used to them and they don’t fit with what we are delivering.

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10 months ago
Grietje
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Grietje

Social conditioning by social media and stereotyping is preventing students to think outside the box, thus being creative.
I think it is great the new unit Critical thinking is now included to teach students to be creative, to empathise and solve problems.

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10 months ago
Lyn Hynds
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Lyn Hynds

Finding a way to foster originality and creativity in a science base learning is not easy. So much of the unit involve a great deal of theoretical knowledge. Is there an opportunity for innovation at all levels of study and training. There is a great opportunity for innovation and creativity in the research and development areas. But can that be stifled by the pressures of funding. Are there still opportunities for research for the love of science and exploring new ideas? How can I as a Tafe teacher with limited time and strict training package guidelines encourage creative thinking in… Read more »

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10 months ago
Neera Handa
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Neera Handa

Idling is a pastime, so crucial for creativity, but unfortunately, students don’t have time to be idle anymore, each moment is filled up by the sheer pressure of living in this 24/7 connected, modern , multi-skilled, multitasking society. even teachers! Whatever time and energy students have it is passed, in doing what is expected, whether it is to do with social life or study. They don’t have time to think up things on their own. Same I see in teachers, being creative is a waste of time. There are e-books, lesson plans, activities, assessments, already there, and teaching has become… Read more »

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10 months ago
Fiona C
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Fiona C

Delivery time constraints coupled with training package parameters within VET can impact the opportunity to foster originality and creativity in students

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11 months ago
Lyn Hynds
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Lyn Hynds

Unfortunately the hours for Tafe courses has been drastically due to budget. Training Packages and assessment guidelines leave little time to cover more than the basic requirements.

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10 months ago
Grietje
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Grietje

agree, I think it is great the new unit Critical thinking is going to be included.

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10 months ago
ben
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ben

it would be great if an element of creative thinking could be embedded into all units

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9 months ago
Julie Barkman
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Julie Barkman

As teachers we can encourage critical thinking in the types of activities we do in the classroom

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8 months ago
Karen Nicita
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Karen Nicita

I think peer pressure and trying to conform to the norm on social media distracts students from being creative – also the fear of being seen as different if they come up with something creative (though they may be seen as innovative and smart) – they don’t want to risk doing something that is different and have not time to be creative as they are watching others be creative (on tik tok etc) – they are led by influencers on social media

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11 months ago
Grietje
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Grietje

agree, social conditioning is a big thing this time of age.

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10 months ago
Nicole
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Nicole

Exactly. Imagine the embarrassment if we did something out of the box.

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9 months ago
julie law
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julie law

the lack of understanding we have to how learners use technology

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11 months ago
jeanette
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jeanette

Unless the students see it on social media, there is no originality. which is a great shame

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1 year ago
Jackie
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Jackie

students want to go with what ever else is going – they do not want to be shot down for thinking differently

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1 year ago
Karen Nicita
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Karen Nicita

That is true – if they do they become influencers and can earn good money for doing something creative but generally something that may be deemed silly

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11 months ago
Teresa Munro
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Teresa Munro

We need to encourage students to be confident to have a sound opinion.

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10 months ago
Fiona
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Fiona

We do need to encourage our students to go beyond and push themselves. Many of them strive for mediocrity.

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9 months ago
Gw
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Gw

Social media is a huge distraction for students.

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1 year ago
jeanette
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jeanette

I totally agree with what you have written

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1 year ago
ian
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ian

I concur because they are living their lives looking at what someone else is doing on social media and are not living their own lives and thinking their own thoughts.

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9 months ago
Kirsty
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Kirsty

Glued to devices, following and mimicking, not wanting to be original to avoid negative feedback on social media

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1 year ago
Jackie
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Jackie

exactly. mimicking is huge. never wanting to receiving negative feedback

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1 year ago
Romi. Sharma
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Romi. Sharma

As we grow up we loose imagination & creativity due to the structural processes of teaching which further creates a barrier in our learning and in the essence of learning.

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1 year ago
Limin Hou
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Limin Hou

Distractedness and relegation of imagination are main factors to nip originality and creativity in people, not only students. If we give students rubric and they don’t follow, they fail. When I was a student, I did not follow the requirements closed, I failed. Imagination is not part of most of our subject content and assessment requirements.

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1 year ago
Mon
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Mon

Too much watching, not enough reading

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1 year ago
Limin Hou
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Limin Hou

Not enough reading, so not enough thinking or reflection.

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1 year ago
Romi. Sharma
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Romi. Sharma

In todays world the lack of critical thinking in a neoliberalism environment creates a barrier in our learning and being creative

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1 year ago
jeanette
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jeanette

absolutely

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1 year ago
julie law
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julie law

or is it our lack of understanding of the new way of learning

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11 months ago
ANOUSHIRAVAN FANAEIAN SANGSARI
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ANOUSHIRAVAN FANAEIAN SANGSARI

Sticking to devices constantly can be a barrier to fostering creativity in students.

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1 year ago
Limin Hou
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Limin Hou

Focusing on others’ creation and following it kill their own desire to create and are not able to free their mind space to create themselves.

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1 year ago
Romi. Sharma
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Romi. Sharma

Absolutely agree but there is no stopping every educational institute is pushing the devices in some form or the other.

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1 year ago
Kirsty
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Kirsty

Exactly, following and not thinking or creating for themselves

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1 year ago
Jackie
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Jackie

agreed. social media is more important to them – making sure everyone agrees with them/like then

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1 year ago
lindaassi
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lindaassi

As an Educator of my Craft ,I always really enjoyed preparing creative ways to teach students new skills and knowledge, and unfortunately over time i spend my time making sure compliance is covered and boxes are ticked .this is also effecting the students enthusiasm of learning.

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1 year ago
Neera Handa
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Neera Handa

Moreover, there is no incentive for them to try, and make mistakes. They are encouraged to get it right!

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10 months ago
Lyn Hynds
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Lyn Hynds

We have to spend so much time ticking boxes, where do find the time in our work schedule to find ways to introduce and foster creative thinking in the classroom.

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10 months ago
Nicole
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Nicole

I agree. It is difficult to find the time to create new ways of teaching, when we are so busy completing all of the paper work, ticking all the boxes, signing everything and seemingly filling in the same paperwork 3 different times!

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9 months ago
Ritula Martin
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Ritula Martin

Lack of imagination. Being distracted. lack of perseverance.

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1 year ago
Katie
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Katie

Many years ago I delivered real skills to students, using many hands on, creative and fun learning methods and techniques.
Now it is just a rush to tick boxes and sign forms, preventing students to learn through creativity.

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1 year ago
Ritula Martin
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Ritula Martin

How very true Katie

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1 year ago
lindaassi
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lindaassi

That is it in a nutshell Katie, unfortunately this is creating a shortage in creative students ,all the paperwork is stifling opportunity to be creative.

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1 year ago
Lee
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Lee

Once upon a time, students learned a variety of skills that built up to being assessed with integrated assessments that replicated the workplace, using creativity and originality. The system some of us operate in is stifling the creativity and originality of students. Making sure assessments are done in a specific way, disregarding skills that overlap, and forcing students to duplicate tasks over and over again to meet the compliance requirements laid out by regulators. Unfortunately, I believe the system is one of the biggest barriers here.

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1 year ago
Christine
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Christine

Yes Lee, I agree with your comments – being bogged down in compliance, meeting assessment requirements and being time poor does not allow for creativity and exploration of thought.

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1 year ago
Ritula Martin
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Ritula Martin

So very true.

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1 year ago
Katie
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Katie

Spot on Lee! And we as educators then spend even more time completing compliance, rather than following up with individual students

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1 year ago
Fiona C
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Fiona C

Lee, very well said

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11 months ago
Wendy D
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Wendy D

We seem to be compelled in education (particularly in VET) by compliance and meeting financial goals rather than fostering creativity and imagination, not only are we directed to teach to assessments, we are limited in our delivery time to ensure financial viability the student is almost the last consideration of education system – as long as we have all the boxes ticked and a signature on every page education is guaranteed

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1 year ago
Lee
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Lee

Unfortunately….I agree. The only flexibility we have is how we teach in the classroom to bring in creativity and foster originality. I have started to change up the learning activities that are not prescribed by my organisation – just to give students the opportunity to express themselves and challenge themselves to be creative.

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1 year ago
Mon
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Mon

It’s very true. Teaching to assessments leaves very little time to do activities that encourage our students to think outside the square.

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1 year ago
Paul
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Paul

The biggest barrier is ourselves as educators We have to create and foster an environment where this can flourish We can blame something on every generation, but as a teacher/educator, we need to let our students be creative, be original, make mistakes but help them understand that it is ok to make mistakes but the important thing is to get them to learn from them I don’t know what I have done this year, but I have classes where one out of 15 students is distracted by their phone, the rest are too busy solving problems and building circuits –… Read more »

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1 year ago
ANOUSHIRAVAN FANAEIAN-SANGSARI
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ANOUSHIRAVAN FANAEIAN-SANGSARI

That’s right, Paul. I always try to make my students think about finding answers rather than giving them the answers unless they get stuck.

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1 year ago
Fiona Walker
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Fiona Walker

I see that as we have specific content we need to get through, while ticking boxes for accountability to show we have done this, we run out of time to allow for creativity. There is too much paperwork now, not allowing the assessors (us) to be the tool and to leave it at that. Now we have to give too much unnecessary written feedback, which could have been summed up in a matter of words orally, then the students have to tick boxes to say they have read and understood the feedback. All time which could have been spent allowing… Read more »

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1 year ago
Paul
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Paul

Oh Fiona, I can feel everyone’s pain here It’s funny how expectations are placed on students from their care givers, with the best intentions, however that only causes frustrations for everyone, except the care giver And I agree with you, how did teaching become so ticking the boxes They need to employ people who do this function to allow us teachers to focus on our function It’s interesting to get an insight on what you deal with as I am the after school teaching and experience some of what you are saying, although my students have obtained an apprenticeship and… Read more »

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1 year ago
Shaista Imran
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Shaista Imran

Time constraints to ” cover the syllabus” to get the structured assessments done and reported in time is one major factor. Teachers are under pressure to meet deadlines, so the little bit of creativity on the student’s part also goes unnoticed.
Besides, all teachers would have their own capability(limitation) to appreciate creativity in a certain area, they may not be able to nurture all students needs

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1 year ago
Paul
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Paul

Shaista, that appears to be the big killer of creativity – having to cover a syllabus…. regardless of having to meet a set time frame
The teacher should see the syllabus then their creativity skills then determine how the syllabus will be administered

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1 year ago
Anoush
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Anoush

You made an excellent point Shaista that I have always in mind. We are so much bombarded with tasks, duties, assessments, and syllabus that we have no time left for doing something creative for our students or to make them do things creatively.

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1 year ago
Michelle Wilson
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Michelle Wilson

‘Teaching to the test’ (assessments) and constant paperwork around this is the biggest barrier to fostering originality and creativity in students.

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1 year ago
Fiona Walker
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Fiona Walker

Yes, our teachers are all sick of feeling like we are just teaching to the test.

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1 year ago
Kate Lee
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Kate Lee

No time for this concept, just teach and get assessments done. Sad but true.

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1 year ago
Christine
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Christine

Yes, and unfortunately this approach does nothing to improve students attention span.

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1 year ago
Katie
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Katie

With hours for delivery reducing every year, it is getting more and more like this

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1 year ago
lindaassi
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lindaassi

agreed time is less, paperwork is more no time for creativity.

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1 year ago
Christine Sefton
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Christine Sefton

There is a definite challenge for educational institutions trying to ‘teach’ creative aspects or creative thinking or artistic subjects and trying to make them fit the structure of a less creative subject. We need different approaches to this.

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1 year ago
Els Daglinckx
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Els Daglinckx

In line with Michael’s wonderful comments, I would like to add that procrastination can be healthy and necessary. We are pushed to perform but it is not our natural state of being all the time. Pottering around in your garden or house can be essential to creativity.

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1 year ago
Els Daglinckx
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Els Daglinckx

I refer to an article I read recently: Inheriting the Protestant work ethic, most of us have been taught to see procrastination as unproductive and lazy. But a new body of thinking suggests procrastination can be a positive act for creatives.
ArtsHub Australia 2/24/202. Madeleine Dore.

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1 year ago
Christine Sefton
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Christine Sefton

Absolutely I agree with this. Pottering around is wonderful for creative thinking but then often the next step is the motivation to move forward with creative thoughts

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1 year ago
Melissa Auer
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Melissa Auer

The need to teach to assessments! There used to be so much more area to add creativity and originality to our courses but now its so streamlined to teach to assess that the students are missing out on a alot of the original flair that some of these courses were once prsented with!

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1 year ago
Els Daglinckx
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Els Daglinckx

I hear you Melissa!

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1 year ago
Wendy D
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Wendy D

I agree, teaching to assessments, reducing delivery time and making education financially viable how can anyone, staff or students be creative in this environment

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1 year ago
Jan Howard
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Jan Howard

One of the biggest barriers is the ‘systemic low value’ placed on these skills by society, education and as a consequence – parents. If it is not seen as important or worthwhile by important institutions/people why would the students see any value in it. Recently the cost of Arts degrees were raised and that of ‘proper’ degrees that lead expressly towards a career, reduced, what does that tell you?

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1 year ago
Michelle Wilson
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Michelle Wilson

Yes, very good point about the increased cost of some higher education degrees vs the ‘proper ones’.

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1 year ago
Wendy D
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Wendy D

To continue on that theme why is a university education being pushed in schools as still the be all and end all of education, some are not suited to uni straight out of school and need time and space to decide their futures – trade skills and VET is also have a ‘systemic low value’

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1 year ago
Mon
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Mon

Yes, there is no funding for creativity or imagination.

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1 year ago
Neera Handa
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Neera Handa

This push to have engineers rather than poets ensures no creativity. Society needs both, or even better as someone has said, poets who are engineers, and engineers that are poets!

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10 months ago
turkce
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turkce

What liberating knowledge. Give me liberty or give me death. Sidonnie Meredeth Vas

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1 year ago
Julia
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Julia

One barrier is lack of time. Our lives are so full of extra-curricula activities that as parents we feel we must provide or be forever branded a bad parent and our children disadvantaged. I crave time when I have absolutely nothing to do.

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1 year ago
Jan Howard
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Jan Howard

We are buying into the argument about what is a real job. Medicine, Law, Finance. Perhaps we should carry around handouts with the stats about jobs of the future. It might change the thinking a bit!

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1 year ago
Christine Sefton
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Christine Sefton

I couldn’t agree with you more Julia. We have way too many things that are perceived ‘important’ or ‘necessary’ but really….are they?

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