Gayle Martin, Arts & Culture Officer, Curriculum Support Falkirk Council is working in partnership with Stirling and Clackmannanshire Council to develop Creative Learning.  Gayle recently attended a presentation by Sheila Paige of Education Scotland who is leading Creativity Across Learning, which is a creative review across a range of education establishments in Scotland.  The review will complete in June and results will be published in September.  As part of this Sheila was able to share how Education Scotland has defined Creativity, which is listed below:

 Definitions of Creativity

 Creative skills, sometimes referred to as capacities, include being:

• Inquisitive
• Open-minded
• Able to harness imagination
• Able to identify and solve problems

 We also define people who have well-formed creative skills as being:

• Confident in their right and ability to influence change

 These organisers are used to describe more fully those key learning behaviours which will support the development of these skills and capacities.  The following list aims to expand these concepts.  It is not exhaustive but includes:

• Being curious
• Registering patterns and anomalies
• Drawing on previous knowledge
• Researching productively
• Formulating good questions
• Defining problems
• Exploring multiple viewpoints
• Functioning with uncertainty
• Lateral thinking
• Hypothesising
• Synthesising and refining multiple options and viewpoints
• Inventing
• Crafting, delivering and presenting solutions
• Applying discipline and resilience
• Evaluating impact and success of solutions
• Identifying next steps in refinement or development of process

We would also expect children and young people to become increasingly:

• Motivated and ambitious for change
• Confident in validity of their own viewpoint
• Able to apply a creative process to other situations
• Able to lead and work well with others