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"Keep on working. Creativity's a muscle that needs to be flexed everyday."

http://www.creativeboom.com/features/cb-champion-10-illustrator-and-graphic-designer-jean-jullien/http://www.creativeboom.com/features/cb-champion-10-illustrator-and-graphic-designer-jean-jullien/

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here's a 6 word creativity story (Suzanne)

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Sheryl's 6 word creativity quote

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Here's the Artful Thinking website from Project Zero: thanks, Will, for bringing our attention to this!

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http://rubble.heppell.net/rooms_in_rooms/

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Creating with IT

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http://thelearnersway.net/ideas/2017/4/17/shifting-from-awareness-to-action

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http://blogs.ibo.org/sharingpyp/2016/12/13/creativity-and-thinking-outside-the-box/
(for Val)

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Val

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Sheryl

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
about the two brain hemispheres and how they work together

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Can Creativity be taught?  This is what Ken Robinson says... take a look

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Can Creativity be taught?  This is what Ken Robinson says... take a look

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBpDggX3iE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=298&v=sJxxdQox7n0

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Hi everyone I am very excited to be joining the workshop .my name is Mandy and I have being working in the international school of Milan for 17 years I have always worked with young children from 2-5 I really enjoy doing creative activities with the children I'm hoping to get lots of inspiration from the workshop and bring back to my school lots of new idea's

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I'm really looking forward to our  workshop in Athens!  I'm Valerie Valdez, currently teaching grade 5 at ICS.  Before moving to Ethiopia I taught 5th grade at LCS in Ghana (hello, Suzanne, can't wait to see you and the family!)  Taught 3rd and 4th grade during my 15 years in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a US public school that joined the PYP community (unusual)!
From Ireland, which still is still my anchor, though haven't lived there for decades...
I fear that creativity is a casualty of formal education, but that the PYP is philosophically positioned to nurture this quintessential facet of being... how do we actively facilitate this in our daily classrooms?

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Please comment "agreed" or suggest changes/additions as these are binding -and need to be agreed on- by all of us:
We
-ask questions
-are prepared to ask the difficult questions

-reflect on current practice

-find practical ways to apply what we learn here at our schools

-embrace different ideas

-include rather than exclude

-find balance between expectations and demands

-put learners' needs first

-share knowledge and experience

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Before the workshop please spare time to examine the e-documents below and add links that you would like to share with the workshop group.

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My name is Jon Bettger, a Canadian living in Aarhus, Denmark and currently teaching the PYP 8 (Grade 5). I've been with this age group for a number of years now, and teach Language, Math and UOI as well as being their homeroom teacher. I think sparking creativity and motivating kids is the foundation for a great teaching environment and everything builds from this. I'm interested in creative ways to use the PYP foundation and curriculum, particularly how to incorporate concepts into a creative program of inquiry. Looking forward to meeting you all soon!

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Good evening from sunny Madrid!
I am a 4th grade teacher at ICS Madrid so no guesses for whom the colleague is referring to in Nualas post😉. I've been working in grade 4 for 7 of the 8 years that I've been at ICS. Every year has been different although the UOI's have remained the same, but now we are focusing more on the skills rather than the content so this workshop has my name written on it.
My ongoing challenge is how to motivate students that feel that they have little to offer in the way of creativity and to manage the classroom when it seems creativity is the only focus of the students and therefore the content gets left behind.

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Hi everyone! I'll be joining from ISA in Amsterdam..currently working in Pre-K as class teacher and previously Kindergarten. I have 6 years PYP experience (before ISA I was in Singapore) and looking to be inspired to focus on creating a more creative environment in all curriculum areas. Also to develop/open up my own thoughts about creativity - I grew up in the UK and would like to reflect on how that influences my idea of creativity and how it has affected my teaching.

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Hi there!
I will be joining the course from ICS in Madrid with a colleague!
I have been working here in the PYP for 5 years (two in grade 3 and three in Infants).  I am really interested in stimulating creativity in children and hope to find different ways in which to do so!
I am looking forward learning from you all!

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Hi there, hope you are all well. Looking forward to the workshop this June in Athens. I am joining you from Accra, Ghana - West Africa - where I work at Lincoln Community School.
I am a "specialist", originally a drama teacher, but the last 3 years active in visual arts (pre-k to grade 2) and music (grade 2 till 5), where my heart lies.
I graduated as a singer/actress in Music Theater in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and later on graduated as a drama/theater teacher.
I am very curious and hopeful that in this workshop I can practice tools that help me incorporate music with the UOI AND the standards - set by (in my case) National Core Art Standards.  But also to get new insights in how to stimulate and nurture creativity in busy classrooms, how to measure and report.
Anyway, happy to all meet you here! See you in June!

Below: is me on the left, my daughter and husband on international day we celebrated last Saturday at school!

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Let me introduce myself - for the last (at-least) 10 years I've been the PYP art teacher at the International School of Stuttgart - Germany.  I've been teaching all students from Kg to grade 5 - roughly 250. And it now feels like time for a change so ... From September '17 I will teach less Art and more EAL.  I want to further my knowledge of how to encourage children's creativity and how to help them develop their understandings of who they are.  The idea of 'Having a go' and trying things out and learning from when things don't turn out quite how they expected straight away are things that I try to cultivate.  I want to bring the creativity that I encourage through the art into the classroom and help to promote it through the UOI and curricular areas. With visual art I am a greater fan of hands on and 'messy' although I see the amazing possibilites using the new technologies.

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being in a school situation where there is a need to report on the children's progress how can we comment, show, measure, report on this growth?

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Hi ! I will be joining you from Arendal in Norway. I am the PYP coordinator with 13 years PYP experience.  I am looking forward to battle the death of creativity. I want to see how we can consciously incorporate creativity into all aspects of the curriculum, especially maths.

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Why should we promote creativity in education?

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Why should we promote creativity in education?

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Please add your comments.

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Selda -independent IB educator from Istanbul, Turkey

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Selda -independent IB educator from Istanbul, Turkey

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I am looking forward to leading this workshop.
About me (feel free to connect): linkedin.com/in/seldamansur  Thanks :)