Creativity Toolkit
This toolkit offers a wide array of low-stakes experiences and resources designed to foster student creativity in a safe, pressure-free environment. It includes classroom norms and procedures for creativity, reflection prompts, group and individual creative exercises (e.g. movement, vocal, improv), and inspirational posters and quotes to support ongoing idea generation.
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00 - Overview
In this toolkit you will find experiences to foster creativity without the stress of performance. There’s no product or assessments. The important thing is engagement in a safe environment.
The overview provides a full list of resources in the toolkit.
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01 - The Creative Classroom
This resources describes a successful creative classroom, including procedures and norm setting, and also includes additional resources to encourage creativity: self-reflection sentence starters, brainstorming, bring on the silly, how do you encourage creativity, questions for creative norm setting and different ways to create groups.
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02 - Creativity Quotes
A handout with quotes to share with your students to illicit response - all on the subject of creativity.
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03 - Reflections
A series of reflections for both teachers and students, all related to creativity and the creative process.
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04 - Experiences to Increase Student Creativity
A handout that includes a list and description of experiences you can introduce in the classroom, to increase student creativity.
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05 - Large Group Experiences
A series of activities to introduce in the drama classroom with large groups, that encourage creativity.
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06 - Small Group Experiences
A series of activities to use with small groups in the drama classroom, to encourage creativity.
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07 - Individual Experiences
A series of activities for students to try as individuals, to encourage creativity.
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08 - Movement Experiences
A series of experiences listed in a specific order, to build skill in creativity with groups of students.
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09 - Vocal Experiences
A series of vocal experiences to use with students in the drama classroom, focused on encouraging creativity.
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10 - Improv Experiences
Improv activities for students, including an additional handout on CWOW.
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11 - Posters to Inspire
A series of posters to inspire creativity in the drama classroom.
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