Creativity

Global societal and technological trends are shaping the future workplace, such as changes brought about by AI, automation and as the world looks to reduce the impacts of climate change. Core transferable skills such as creativity are becoming increasingly valuable to employers along with these shifts and can transfer across different roles and industries. 

Teach students that creativity is about thinking in new and original ways, generating ideas, and approaching challenges with curiosity and imagination. By building creative confidence, students can learn how to adapt their thinking, solve problems more effectively, and bring fresh ideas to both academic tasks and real-world situations.

Teaching resources:

• Creativity: Lesson plan and presentation slides – for use with a group of students in the classroom
• Creativity: Student worksheets
• Secondary school: Skills tracker – an optional resource to support students keep track of the skills they have developed and plan how they can practise them
• Creativity icon: available to download and incorporate in your wider teaching materials to help students recognise other contexts where they are learning and utilising creativity skills. 

Lesson learning outcomes:

By the end of the activity students will be able to:

• Explain and identify how creative skills can be useful at school and work
• Demonstrate ways of working together to reach creative conclusions
• Use different methods of creative thinking to find solutions.

Continue developing your students' creativity skills:

Want to explore more resources that will support students to continue to build essential employability skills like creativity? Our Schemes of learning provide ready-made sequences of curriculum-linked resources to help you build progression in your learners’ knowledge over time. Visit the Scheme of learning homepage to support with your planning.