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I have a network of support around me. I have my family, my parents, my sisters and brother. I have so much. I have my boyfriend, who makes sure I survive through each day. And I have the best pupper in the world, Peanut, who makes me smile when I'm at my worst.

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I want a classroom with a view. I want a room where I can look out and see the world that I'm sending my future students into.

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When I was younger, I had always wanted to be a successful author. Now, unless I can become the next JK Rowling, that carreer choice isn't exactly practical. I had then thought of being a bilingual teacher overseas. I wanted to go to high need areas and teach English. That idea then evolved into teaching elementary students. I figured before I could teach anywhere else, I needed to hit the places needed at home.

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My name is Zoë Janisse, and I am an early childhood education major. In school, I always felt that I was put into a box. I wanted to go outside of it, but I was told that they didn't care about my ideas or how I did things differently. As a future educator, I don't want my students to feel that way. I want them to voice their ideas and learn how they feel comfortable.

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Drawing by Zoë Janisse

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Creativity Ted Talk

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Please [contact us](https://www.ted.com/contact) and let us know what happened.

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I want children to voice their ideas. It is never wrong to try something new and daring. It might even be a better way of doing things than the teacher was doing it. I want students to figure out how to learn best for them, not by someone else's guidelines.

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Promoting creativity is important. Assignments and projects can't always be cookie cutter copies of one another from each student. That just promotes plagiarism and copying. They have to add their own personal flair to their projects. They have to be, well, creative.

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i.e. they have to solve a math problem the same way the teacher tells them to. The student may not understand the way the teacher explains the problem and may have learned it another way in the past. Both ways lead to the correct answer, but the student still feels as though they have to follow the teacher's directions in order for their answer to be correct. I have had this problem in school before, and I find it very frustrating. There is more often than not more than one way to look at any problem. They just have to think outside of the box.

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i.e., they have to go to college after they graduate high school in order to get a good job and survive. They don't have to do that. They can join a trade or climb the ranks in a business such a Ulta Beauty and make a living out of that. You don't always have to go to college.

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Promoting individuality is important. School has the dendency to force kids into boxes. I don't like that. I don't want children to go into the world thinking that they have to do live life in one specific way.

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Demonstrate through planned class activities the ability to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness