Vivett Hemans
By Vivett Hemans
EDI 17 Psychology & Development of Adolescent Students
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 11, 2009
Our schools are undoubtedly and mercilessly killing our childrens' creativity, especially that of our adolescents. It seems to me that students in the early years of their education are given more outlets in which to express their creativity: there are projects to build, diarramas to design, maps to draw, songs to write, interviews to conduct, poems to memorize, papers to write, and so much more. In so doing, several of Zygotsky's multiple intelligences are given the opportunity to be tapped into and each child is afforded the opportunity to expressed what he/she learned in a forum where their aptitude is its greatest.
As our students get older, however, educators stop finding ways to tap into the students' creativity and instead opt to turn every assignment into a written research report of sort. Now, I happen to love to write and am a good writer so these assignments appeal to me. As a matter of fact, if given the choice to write a paper, take an exam or draw a picture, I'll choose to write a paper every time; however, just because I'm good at that doesn't mean that everyone is.
We are not clones. We are individuals. We each have our own talents and creative expression and throughout our educations, we should be allowed to, whenever possible, express our uniqueness and creativity. It would make for a better curriculum and would lend to learning being fun and memorable, not simply recitative for the purposes of a paper or an exam.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 11, 2009
Our schools are undoubtedly and mercilessly killing our childrens' creativity, especially that of our adolescents. It seems to me that students in the early years of their education are given more outlets in which to express their creativity: there are projects to build, diarramas to design, maps to draw, songs to write, interviews to conduct, poems to memorize, papers to write, and so much more. In so doing, several of Zygotsky's multiple intelligences are given the opportunity to be tapped into and each child is afforded the opportunity to expressed what he/she learned in a forum where their aptitude is its greatest.
As our students get older, however, educators stop finding ways to tap into the students' creativity and instead opt to turn every assignment into a written research report of sort. Now, I happen to love to write and am a good writer so these assignments appeal to me. As a matter of fact, if given the choice to write a paper, take an exam or draw a picture, I'll choose to write a paper every time; however, just because I'm good at that doesn't mean that everyone is.
We are not clones. We are individuals. We each have our own talents and creative expression and throughout our educations, we should be allowed to, whenever possible, express our uniqueness and creativity. It would make for a better curriculum and would lend to learning being fun and memorable, not simply recitative for the purposes of a paper or an exam.
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