Creativity

Creativity is a valuable skill, and there are common strategies teachers can use to help students develop it.

After celebrating her school’s 20th annual Arts Week, an elementary school teacher shares how to put on an event like this.

Alternative writing assignments can be just as rigorous as the traditional essay and can spark young writers’ creativity.

Make a daily habit of starting every ELA class with a poem—they’re short and intense, connect to other reading, and inspire student writing.

Flashes of creative thought can be difficult for students to capture, so we rounded up a few apps that can help.

Year mapping allows students to see what they’ve learned in your class, and it’s a great resource for your incoming class.

Transformational teachers create experiences in their classrooms, melding the art and science of any subject and making their students care about learning.

Challenging high school students to show their learning through a product of their own design brings out their creativity.

Look through the door of one classroom and you might see the students hunched over, not engaged, even frowning. Look through the door of another classroom, and you might see a room full of lively students, eager, engaged and participating. What is the second teacher doing that the first one isn't? He or she is using creativity in that classroom.

Math trails help students explore, discover, enjoy, and celebrate math concepts and problems in real-world contexts.

In project-based learning, students show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other.

Teachers can inspire outside-the-box thinking for students by using problem-based learning, art, music, and inquiry-based feedback.

Three ideas for fostering collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity with easy-to-use apps and tools.

All points of arts integration -- from benefits and implementation to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia blog posts, articles, and videos.