Last Friday, I had the privilege of presenting a webinar with over 500 teachers from the Catholic Education Association of the Philippines (CECP). The topic was Give your students the power to create a bright future.

Early into the session I encouraged the teachers to do an online poll that looked at the following range statements about creativity in education …

• Creativity in education is an absolute necessity 
• Creativity in education is really only important in the Arts subjects 
• Creativity can’t be taught. You are either creative or you are not. 

Just under 120 teachers did the poll with some interesting results …

83% Strongly agreed that creativity education is an absolute necessity and 8% strongly disagreed, with everyone else in the middle.

In relation to the statement Creativity in education is really only important in the Arts subjects, 54% strongly disagreed, 10% disagreed and 27% strongly agreed.

When looking at whether creativity can be taught or not, 46% strongly disagree that creativity can’t be taught, 18% strongly agreed and 17% were not sure.

It was great to be working with such a diverse range of opinions on this topic. It led to a very interesting Q&A session.

Most of the content I presented was from my recent article Creativity Matters – in all areas of the curriculum and all levels where I try and answer the following questions:

• What is creativity?
• Why is creativity important?
• Can anyone be creative?
• How can creativity be taught and assessed?

Click here to see the full webinar via Facebook.

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