2. Developing creativity with Cambridge Global Perspectives®
Janet Morris
Director, International Network

3. Today’s agenda What is creativity?
What skills do we need to be creative?
Cambridge Global Perspectives
Innovative approach to learning
Examples from the classroom
How the programme develops creativity

4. Our changing world
‘Reflections on the Human Condition’, Eric Hoffer, 1973

5. Creativity and innovation
The principle goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – people who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
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6. What is creativity?

7. Did you think of something like this?

8. A broader conception of creativity
Electricity is not only present in a magnificent thunderstorm and dazzling lightning, but also in a lamp… Creativity exists not only where it creates great historical works, but also everywhere human imagination combines, changes, and creates anything new.
Lev Vygotsky
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9. A broader conception of creativity
James Kaufman and Ronald Beghetto, 2010

10. Which subjects can be creative?
“…artists and scientists all try to be creative and try to be imaginative in their work.”
Yuan Tseh Lee
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
“Be curious, be playful”
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize in Physics 1965

11. Which skills do we need to be creative?
Metacognition
Make connections
Have Confidence
Take risks
Experiment
 Clarify
Question
assumptions
Find alternatives
Find
unexpected
combinations
Creativity
Developing the Cambridge Learner Attributes (Stobie, 2017)

12. Which skills does Global Perspectives develop?
Research
Problem-solving
Reflection
Collaboration
Communication
Metacognition
Make connections
Have Confidence
Take risks
Experiment
 Clarify
Question
assumptions
Find alternatives
Find
unexpected
combinations
Creativity
Innovation

13. Cambridge Global Perspectives

14. Cross-curricular approach
Water, food and farming
Biology
Geography
History
Home economics
English
Maths
Creative arts
Politics

15. Different perspectives

16. A global thinking routine
A routine from Project Zero:
Why might this [topic, question] matter to me?
Why might it matter to people around me [family, friends, city, nation]?
Why might it matter to the world?
Cape Town, South Africa
Source: New York Times

17. Cambridge Primary Global Perspectives Team Project
Learners move through four phases to complete the Team Project:
Learners work as a team to identify local issues they would like to improve.
They explore different local perspectives about these issues in order to identify one to focus on.
The team conducts research on the issue and uses this to set a goal to improve, change or resolve the local issue.
The team then undertakes a course of action to take in order to achieve this goal. 1 2 3 4

18. Evidence of Action The evidence can be:
a poster, information leaflet, brochure or website
a presentation, song, poem, role play, series of photographs, short film or cartoon
a video recording of the action taken to meet the goal
An essay response is not acceptable

19. Evidence of Action

20. The final outcome

21. What do schools think?
I must say our kids and teachers are having a wonderful experience with the Global Perspectives pilot programme.
Parents too are always sharing how curious and creative their kids have become and how they can't stop talking about the sessions. They look forward to their Global Perspectives session, week after week.
JBCN International School, India

22. How does Global Perspectives develop creativity?
Working towards an outcome encourages creativity
Deliberate practice of creative process
Drawing on a range of themes, content, and ways of thinking
Laying foundations for creative thinking in other subjects and in future learning

23. Find out more Cambridge Global Perspectives web pages Talk to our team
cambridgeinternational.org/globalperspectives
Talk to our team
Developing the Cambridge Learner Attributes
cambridgeinternational.org/learning
Contact Cambridge International

24. Today’s agenda What is creativity?
What skills do we need to be creative?
Cambridge Global Perspectives
Innovative approach to learning
Examples from the classroom
How the programme develops creativity

25. Thank you