Dr Tim Patston is the Coordinator of Creativity and Innovation at Geelong Grammar in Victoria. This year, teachers across all the school’s campuses are completing training in Creative Education. In the first of two articles, Patston discusses why the school...
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Dr Tim Patston is the Coordinator of Creativity and Innovation at Geelong Grammar in Victoria. This year, teachers across all the school’s campuses are completing training in Creative Education. In the first of two articles, Patston discusses why the school decided to take this approach to learning and outlines the process staff used to develop the framework. It is becoming increasingly clear, from both research and industry, that two key skills will be needed in order to flourish in the future – relationships and creative thinking. These skills enable students to be agile and adaptive in a changing world. Traditional hierarchical models of work are devolving into collaborative teams, where any individual is perceived to be able to make a contribution, if they have an open mindset and the right attitude. In schools this is mirrored in the rise of ‘student agency’, where students become active contributors to their processes of learning, rather than passive receptacles for knowledge. Cr
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