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Creative Exercise Development.
These creative exercises can be adapted to many situations which can help you connect skills, ideas, relationships and encourage creativity with individuals and teams.
3 Creative Exercises
During this lesson you will learn about 3 Creative exercises which will help you with your Meta-Skills and Creativity.
Creative Exercises: Introduction
Creative exercises must ensure that the activity is engaging and provide an enhanced learning experience. Trainers should explain the concept of the creative exercises and describe them as tool that can be used to organise thoughts and ideas, exercises can be used to process information, that they are flexible and suitable for many situations and purposes in many areas of life to help plan, develop, or used creativity to engage learners, get them working together possible solve a problem and bring news ideas into play.
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Introduction (Cont)
Multicultural Arts and Crafts
Creating multicultural artwork (e.g., murals, collages). Encourages collaboration and creativity through interactions and allow celebrating diverse cultures and integration to boost workplace collaboration and inclusion.
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Multicultural Arts and Crafts
Multicultural Arts and Crafts
One + One = One
This is the thought of connecting two ideas or concepts together so at the end we will have one idea or a concept. This is the connecting of two ideas or concepts together so at the end we will have one idea or a concept, combining from the first look at unrelated ideas and coming up with something new.Individually, come up with a concept which name begins with the same letter as your surname. Now, combine your concept with your tutor’s to create a learning opportunity: a multicultural concept.Think about the concept in detail – what purpose does it serve, who uses it, how does it look. Share ideas between your tutor and other course learners and discuss the outcome.This will encourage collaboration and creativity through interactions and allow celebrating diverse cultures and integration to boost workplace collaboration and inclusion.
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One + One = One
One + One = One
One + One = One
Diversity Bingo
A team building and creativity exercise that promotes inclusivity and celebrates differences in the workplace. Learners engage with others from various cultures, backgrounds and learn a number of experiences will engaging with the exercise. Learners can work/talk to others and cross off a square/circle when they find another in the group with who represents the particular item.Questions can be general or more specific; who has travelled to another country; who can speak another language; attended university, etc.
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Diversity Bingo
Diversity Bingo
Diversity Bingo – Virtual Settings
Creative Exercises (Potential Pitfalls)
These are some of the potential pitfalls that you should be aware of when introducing creative exercises for the first time, this should encourage the learner at the early stages to engage fully within the activity, and avoid.
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Creative Exercises (Potential Pitfalls)
Creative Exercises – Additional Ideas
The previous activities can be adapted to suit many teaching/learning scenarios, this section introduces some neat learning points and additional ideas.
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Creative Exercises Additional Ideas
Creative Exercises – Additional Ideas
Creative Exercises – Additional Ideas
Additional Resources
Here we provide access to some other valuable resources and activities to increase your understanding and thoughts around creativity.Sources: 12 Creative Thinking Activities and Exercises - SELFFA – https://selffa.com/creative-thinking-activities-and-exercises/20 Engaging Diversity Games To Foster Inclusion (teambuilding.com) - https://teambuilding.com/blog/diversity-games9 Best Exercises to Spark Creativity in Ideation - Innovation Lab - https://innovationlab.net/blog/9-best-exercises-to-spark-creativity-in-ideation/https://paintbrushdiplomacy.org/teachers/art-and-culture-activity-id
Quality and Assessment
There are many ways that learners work can be assessed and evaluated for quality and effectiveness. This following section introduces some quality and assessment ideas.
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Quality and Assessment
Assessing competence in Creative Exercises
Here we provide a selection of assessment criteria which will help when assessment the competences you will have learnt.
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Assessing competence in Creative Exercises
Creative Exercises – Key Points
This next section covers the key points of using creative activities to increase your creativity.
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Creative Exercises – Key Points
Creativity Assessment
This is series of Multichoice questions followed by a score which will enable you to assess competences achieved through the Creativity Unit.
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Creative Exercises for Multicultural Development
Creative Development Exercises
    About Lesson
    • Benefits: Using creative exercises can help to improve the learning/working environment, the understanding of a task or a problem, provide enhanced creativity and that they can also help you with planning and preparation of a job, or even a chore.

    • Development: Working on a specific topic or concept, develop the exercise related to that topic, afterwards present the completed exercise to your tutor or other colleagues, this allows others feed their ideas into you exercise which promotes collaboration and further creativity and awareness.

    • Assignment: Next stage is present a more complex exercise related to the topic, here the learners can work alone, in pairs, or smaller groups to break down the topic and components. This explores solutions, ideas, possible developments and identified a pathway.
    • Exercise: Using your chosen topic develop the exercise based out their understanding of the content. You are encouraged to map out issues, characteristics, and identify and make connections between the various elements of the exercise.
    • Explain the concept: Start by exploring what each exercise is. It is a a visual tool that helps organise thoughts, ideas, and information. All exercises within the unit are flexible, creative, and can be used for various purposes.
    • Benefits: This may include; how it leads to better creativity, the understanding of topics, that it is a form of note taking and enhances inspiration within the workplace, work team or within your learning environment.
    • Basic Structure: Present each exercise as a simple task, each exercise is a simple task which starts with a central topic, and from this topic we develop a series of creative topics from the main theme. As a new development is formed this represents a further idea of the main topic, use colour and additional images as this presents a more creative idea
    • Hands-On Approach: Working with a blank sheet of paper/screen, or use a drawing software develop your own creativity based on the topic (Multicultural Development). Here we encourage you to be experimental and creative. Tutors should offer guidance and feedback as the exercise develops
    • Practice: You are encouraged the use of these exercises within regular lessons, work or whenever a suitable situation occurs, when there is a new opportunity, you may create a an exercise around any issue and look at new ideas of dealing with the situation of specific topic, use in any brainstorming sessions or within the planning of a new project
    • Review and Reflect: You should review the created exercise, examine the positives and the negatives, what may work and further improvements. During this exercise you are be encouraged to self-reflect, did the exercise lead to a better understanding, did it lead to a result, was it an effective creative exercise, did it provide a clearer picture in dealing or understanding with the topic. Celebrate success.
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