2022 Teaching & Assessment Symposium
Freedom Through Restriction: Empowering Students to Access Creative Freedom Through Strategic Use of Limiting Parameters
Location
Virtual
Description
While encouraging students to exercise creativity in the classroom promotes a positive and fun learning environment, students often struggle to break out of prior tendencies, thought patterns and proven methods in the classroom. By imposing temporary parameters and restrictions on the resources and processes a student can use to approach a task, teachers can empower their students to explore new ideas, exercise abstract thinking and improve their performance in unique ways. This presentation approaches this concept through the lens of teaching jazz improvisation and demonstrates how instructing students to play an improvised solo that adheres to specific and restrictive guidelines can encourage explorations and increase awareness of creative options that might otherwise go unconsidered. A discussion of how this approach might be applied to other academic disciplines follows this demonstration.
Freedom Through Restriction: Empowering Students to Access Creative Freedom Through Strategic Use of Limiting Parameters
Virtual
While encouraging students to exercise creativity in the classroom promotes a positive and fun learning environment, students often struggle to break out of prior tendencies, thought patterns and proven methods in the classroom. By imposing temporary parameters and restrictions on the resources and processes a student can use to approach a task, teachers can empower their students to explore new ideas, exercise abstract thinking and improve their performance in unique ways. This presentation approaches this concept through the lens of teaching jazz improvisation and demonstrates how instructing students to play an improvised solo that adheres to specific and restrictive guidelines can encourage explorations and increase awareness of creative options that might otherwise go unconsidered. A discussion of how this approach might be applied to other academic disciplines follows this demonstration.
Comments
Lightning Talk Session 3