Thursday, 19 March 2015

Relationship between Creativity ,Construstivism and Accommodation




Creativity

Creativity means bringing into being; it involves the generation of new things or ideas or the transformation of those previously existing. The first stage of the creative process involves the association of previously unrelated elements of inner and outer experiences, forming new associations among what is perceived through the senses, thoughts, memories, ideas, and emotions. This process can involve different degrees of consciousness such as automatic creation (e.g. automatic writing), sudden insight, it can be achieved while we perform any other apparently unrelated activity. It also communication, involves sharing the work with others, a process that can be challenging and requires special courage. Sharing the creative outcome with others often unleashes new creative processes in other individuals, making creativity.
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Creative problem solving is helpful to gain clarity about a challenge, to create ideas, to visualize and overcome that challenge, and to develop solutions and plans. Therefore looking at creativity clearly, it has something in common with constructivism.

Construstivism
In the classroom, the constructivist view of learning can point towards a number of different teaching practices. In the most general sense, it usually means encouraging students to use active techniques (experiments, real-world problem solving) to create more knowledge and then to reflect on and talk about what they are doing and how their understanding is changing. Here we as teachers we have to make sure we understand the students' pre-existing conceptions, and guides the activity to address them and then build on them. 



Constructivist teachers encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is helping them gain understanding. By questioning themselves and their strategies, students in the constructivist classroom ideally become "expert learners." This gives them ever-broadening tools to keep learning. With a well-planned classroom environment, the students learn HOW TO LEARN.
Accommodation
With accommodation since all humans are   designed in a unique way this makes them to have different abilities. Accommodation changes the way a child learns not what he/she learns.
It is a way to make sure all learners learn in the best way they can. With accommodation it is belter to study the group of learners you have and see how best each should learn and to do this you can consider the following.
  • Presentation: A change in the way instructions and information are presented. Example: Letting a child listen to audiobooks instead of reading a text.
  • Response: A change in the way a child completes assignments or tests. Example: Allowing a child give spoken answers instead of written ones.
·       Setting: A change in the environment where a child works. Example: Allowing a child to take a test in a separate room with fewer distractions, or in smaller group.
·       Timing and scheduling: A change to how much time a child has to complete a task, or being allowed to take breaks. Example: Providing extra time on tests for a child.

So I think with Creativity learners put into being from the content, constructivism is organizing them to do that and accommodation is allowing each to be part and giving them chance to do it..

3 comments:

  1. Great observation Julius. In other words they are intertwined.

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  2. I also agree with you Julius those three move along together.

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