Creativity in Schools in Case Study of High Tech High

In what ways has this school adopted a constructivist approach?

The constructivist theory implies that people develop knowledge and meaning/ substance from their experiences.

The majorities of the learners of the constructivist teachers devote and dedicate days and months working on important project assignments reading through it, investigating, creating notices and information, meeting with their teachers to talk about their own progression and fix problems working together with colleagues to put together and solve sole group problems.

Tech students presentations were a major part of project work at High Tech; staff observed them as creating learning a lot more real, enhancing and increasing determination, and developing essential communication skills.

Learners generally had a wide selection of options as to how to create/produce these, and had to contemplate what modalities best offered their purposes.

Do you believe that this school promotes creativity? If so, how?

High Tech High infact is the school of the century, matter of fact, creativity is not simply a method of innovativeness but it is innovative in itself. With this school, if one thinks technology cannot be achieved at early stages, this is the evidence for him.

Does the school provide an inclusive environment?

Presently, there is an immediate connection between good results in colleges/school and the environment in which the learning occurs. Learners are to a greater extent capable and more inspired to perform better in schools which may have a constructive school tradition and in which the learners feel protected and recognized. To me high Tech provides such an environment of inclusiveness to the learners.

Do you think this is a realistic, "do-able" approach that you could introduce into your school?

Children learn a lot more and get pleasure from learning more whenever they are positively engaged in the process, instead of being inactive audience. This approach is doable at schools in that the learner will learn to make into use the knowledge acquired under appropriate conditions and will be able to build metacognitive skills.

However, in the initial stage of implementing this approach, there is always a sense of confusion and frustrations on the part of the learners because they may not be able to form abstractions and transfer knowledge and expertise completely new circumstances.

Do you believe that they really are able to cover their syllabus requirements?

Why not, it is a system designed for the people by the people who interests technology, sure they are able to cover the syllabus.

The school is called High Tech High – what is the role of technology in this school?

In order to guide learners to knowledge, schools and colleges should be ready to incorporate technologies in the class with moderation when it allows facilitating actual, genuine engagement, and they should be prepared to set it away when it pulls learners away from this kind of engagement.

Technology classes enable the learners to be innovative and creative as well as building new expertise and holding an understanding of the way things operate. Technology training can offer learners with riches of data and knowledge, that they can next use in the long term to quest for a related profession or purely as a subject of interest.

Therefore, there is no doubt that technology is a progressively important element of the modern society that children are growing up in.

Do you think the use of technology is making the students "stupid" (as Nicholas Carr would have us believe)?

The students at the beginning may see it as being fun, but with time would get to know that tech can be a career on its own if well guided.  Just like in Bishop Cipiriano Kihangire SS Luzira, the sample school we visited during one of the training in which the teachers used the interactive white board in the class, the students didn’t seem to be stupid as Caar would argue.

Do you agree with McWilliam? Should we as teachers be less ready to boost students' self-esteem when they don't really deserve it? How does this promote / not promote creativity?

The notion of training creativeness has been around for pretty some good time and Albert Einstein would say ‘it is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expressions and knowledge’. The teachers should simply do the following (i) Develop a class that acknowledges creativity (ii) Consider creativeness as an ability and (iii) Take part in programs that produce creative and innovative abilities in learners.