Creativity and problem solving for primary schools
Creativity and problem solving is a strand in the Technologies and Innovation curricular area of In Curriculum for Excellence.
How Good Is Our School 4 (HGIOS) section 3.3 provides guidance on features of highly-effective practice for developing learners who are creative:
- Creativity skills are recognised, articulated and
valued by practitioners and learners - Creativity is practically applied as a higher-order
thinking skill - Partnerships are used effectively to deliver highly
engaging creative learning - Learners are able to demonstrate their ability to
transfer creativity skills to new contexts - Learners are able to challenge the status quo
constructively and generate ideas, including, if
appropriate digital solutions to improve it
Information
The Creative Scotland and Education Scotland Creative Learning Plan identifies four features of creativity:
- curiosity
- imagination
- open-mindedness
- problem solving
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