Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity. I chose this standard because, with the budget cuts in public schools, the arts are the first to be cut from schools. I believe that kids need these subjects just as much as they do math or English. If you cut the arts from schools then you may be cutting a talent from a child. Without learning all subjects, how is a student suppose to find their talent?
I watched Creativity and Schools-Sir Ken Robinson. In this clip, Sir Ken Robinson points out that education now days is killing kids creativity. That by getting rid of the arts in school and diagnosing kids with ADHD and giving them pills and telling them to sit still, kills the creativity in kids that are suppose to something else in life besides being involved with the traditional education of English and math. Robinson made a good point also that mistakes are not all bad. A person needs to make mistakes in order to find the correct result. I remember reading once that when Thomas Edison was trying to invent the light bulb, Edison's assistant came to him and said you have failed hundreds of time to make a light bulb, and Edison replied, I have found hundreds of ways how not to make a light bulb. I liked how Robinson said that all kids start out creative and education kills creativity. This is true because when kids are young they have make believe and can construct things with legos or other toys. Yet, as they grow, kids are stripped of this. I believe as teachers, we should be helping students find their potential and encourage it.
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