As discussed in Global Achievement Gap, creativity is what drives people and especially growing students. It makes people ask questions and develop new and life-changing ideas. Creativity is also what employers look for when hiring nowadays. Even though creativity is becoming more of a necessary asset to children, they are not learning how to be creative in school, nor are they being encouraged enough to be creative.
I think that in order to encourage creativity in the classroom, teachers need to give their students more freedom. That concept can be a little scary for some teachers, but many would be surprised at how well kids can handle a little bit a choice in what they learn and what they do. This will also make class more fun for them. They will not get as bored having to do the same thing day after day.
Rewarding creativity is important because then students know that their ideas are worthwhile. If they don't think that they have good ideas then they will be less inclined to be creative or ask more questions. A simple way of rewarding creativity is displaying the students work throughout the classroom. Giving students praise in front of the class sometimes is motivating as well.
For me, as a music educator, I would give my students the opportunity to research a type of music that they are interested in or the pieces that we are working on at the time. I also like putting students into smaller groups so they can interact and lead the group with out a teacher watching them the whole time.
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