This lesson highlights the significance of being a school-age staff member and provides insights on how to be creative in your workplace when engaging with children, families, and colleagues. A key learning point is the importance of self-reflection and collaborative, supportive relationships.
辅助选项卡
- Reflect on what it means to be a creative school-age staff member.
- Identify methods of engaging families and promoting children’s creativity.
- 发展创造性地与孩子、同事和家庭接触的方法。
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你如何在个人生活中培养和维持你的创造力?你参加的仪式或活动是否能让你感觉到与你的创造性自我有更多的联系?有没有人能激发你的创造力?什么东西能激发你的创造力?
你的职业生活怎么样?你的工作环境中哪些因素让你觉得有创造力?是计划经验和使用材料的自由吗?是支持同事和主管吗?是来自同事还是主管的指导和建设性反馈?是分享关注点、想法和头脑风暴解决方案吗?是与孩子和家庭的关系吗?
教育心理学教授詹姆斯考夫曼(jameskaufman)指出了工作环境中培养创造力的八个要素。在本课的“探索”部分,您将有机会反思这些与您个人经历相关的要素。
成为一名富有创造力的适龄员工意味着什么?
对于成为一名富有创造力的适龄教职员工,你自己有什么看法?停下来想一想。
As you have read in this course, creativity is a crucial part of the human experience; it helps us rise to challenges, overcome obstacles, and create opportunities. Creativity is important because it demonstrates openness to new experiences. These experiences include having a good imagination, experiencing and valuing feelings, trying new things based on individual interests, and having a curious mindset (Kaufman, 2009).
在第一课中,你有机会探讨一下自己对创造力的看法。本课程通过鼓励你思考工作场所的创造力,并问问自己,成为一名富有创造力的适龄教职员工意味着什么,从而扩展了这种探索。
In your work in a school-age program, you are responsible for creating meaningful experiences that incorporate creativity throughout the day. Being a creative teacher can be expressed in a number of different ways. Here are some ideas of how to express creativity:
- Using everyday materials that might seem of no use to spark creative work in your classroom
- 处理空间限制,为你和你的教室里的孩子创造支持性的学习环境yabo电子游艺
- 跟随你的好奇心
- Allowing yourself to make mistakes
- 尝试新事物
- Being willing to accept new or different perspectives
- Embracing diversity
创意策划
让学龄儿童参与活动需要你跳出思维定势。以下是一些让你的计划保持创意的方法:
- 与其他员工进行头脑风暴。伟大的想法是围绕着你花时间与其他工作人员思考的乐趣和创造性的方式来吸引学龄儿童。花时间思考你小时候喜欢的事情,并将这些想法融入你的计划中。
- 与学龄儿童进行头脑风暴。有谁比孩子们自己更适合和他们分享想法呢?定期与学龄儿童进行头脑风暴和想法分享,帮助你了解他们感兴趣的内容。这也会帮助你知道什么爱好或活动是受欢迎的。
- 利用资源。与您的培训师、教练或主管一起访问计划资源。这一年龄组有各种各样的资源可供利用,包括印刷品和网络。本课的参考资料部分将列出几个示例。
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培养和培养适龄员工的创造力
创造力有助于你成为一个工作场所社区的一部分,让你感到热情、充满活力和有教养。它有助于让孩子、家人和同事参与到一系列有意义的体验中。在你的项目中与孩子、家人和同事接触时,请考虑以下几点。
Engaging with children:
- 把你自己的创造性兴趣、问题和经验带进你的课程,并与孩子们分享。
- 演示interest and excitement when working with children. Inspire children to be curious and creative by demonstrating these attributes yourself!
- 利用孩子们的背景、经历和兴趣作为灵感,在你的项目中激发创意体验。
- 在你的课程中培养探究和热爱学习的氛围。你不需要总是有答案!邀请孩子们发现你的有趣问题的答yabo电子游艺案。
- Encourage healthy forms of self-expression by providing activities and materials for children to communicate through the creative arts.
- 创造一个学习环境,yabo电子游艺通过表现接受和友善来支持自我表达。拥抱所有的孩子和他们独特的和萌芽的个性。花时间和孩子们交谈,听他们说什么,观察他们通过艺术交流的方式,并鼓励他们。
Engaging with families:
- 邀请家庭成员来参加你的节目,与孩子们分享他们自己的一些创造性努力。
- 邀请家人来观察和参与你的一些创造性活动。
- Invite families to bring in everyday household items they don't need to support your creative experiences with children.
- Encourage families to nurture exploration and creativity by extending some of your program experiences at home.
与同事互动:
- 与同事分享你的兴趣和天赋uring staff meetings, lunch breaks, or in-service days, and tell how these interests drive some of the experiences you create for children in your program. Get to know the people you work with on a personal level.
- Exchange ideas about experiences that foster creativity with colleagues. Invite a colleague to come to your room, observe some of your activities, and give you feedback. Offer to do the same for your colleagues as well.
- Ask a supervisor, trainer, or coach to come and observe your program so they can offer you feedback about your use of creative experiences and materials.
- 感谢那些正在做大事、为你提供指导和建设性反馈、激励你追求卓越和富有创造力的同事。
探索
你工作环境的哪些方面能培养你的创造力?在本课的“学习”部分,我们向您介绍了培养创造力的工作环境的八个要素(考夫曼,2009)。在本节中,你将有机会反思这些因素是如何在工作场所培养你的创造力的。
Use the你的工作环境有哪些方面能培养你的创造力创造力?activity and brainstorm about how these elements relate to your personal experiences when it comes to your own work environment.
Apply
观察is an important part of being a creative school-age staff member. In this Apply activity, you will observe school-age children in the learning environment, watching for the ways they use the creative arts to communicate and express themselves. Complete the观察形式:通过艺术交流activity and share your work with your trainer, coach or administrator when finished.
演示
伯克,L.E.(2000)。Child Development(5th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
考夫曼,J.C.(编辑)。(2009).创意101. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Schickeadanz,J.A.,Hansen,K.,和Forsyth,P.D.(2000)。了解孩子. 加利福尼亚州山景城:梅菲尔德出版公司。
Trawick-Smith, J. W. (2014).幼儿发展:多元文化视角,(6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc.