I encourage creativity in my kindergarten class room because I love to be creative. When the students are given the instruction to draw a picture about a certain subject they tend to ask me and Ms. Filis what they should write. Instead of really telling them what exactly to draw and write about, I ask them questions that may spark a creative idea for them. I believe that even asking a small question to spark a small idea of being creative definitely helps develop a student's creativity.Creativity is being able to use your imagination and being able to act outside of the box. Being creative also may mean that you have no restrictions. Creativity matters in education because it sparks an imagination. Having an imagination helps in the future to develop a broad mind, instead of growing up narrow-minded. Some students, when given an assignment, tend to ask their teacher what they should write and how many sentences there has to be or what colors should be used.
I have been in a situation where I felt as if my teacher didn't let me be creative. We were given an essay to write and we were supposed to write a story about anything but she still gave us limitations on what to put in the story and how long/short it had to be. Which made it extremely difficult to write a good story and to use my creativity to make my story a story from my imagination. I've had a teacher that let me be creative, but not as creative as possible. I was still given some limitations.
To fix the problems described by Sir Ken Robinson is to focus on students and how creative they really can be. For example, maybe on the first day of school give an assignment where the objective is to be as creative as possible! I believe that focusing on the students and how their minds work is a definite way to fix those problems.
