CHAPTER 7“I'M NOT CREATIVE”
Each year, the kindergarten students in Beverly Piper's class couldn't wait to dress up in costumes they designed to celebrate Chinese New Year. That was the best way to teach about cultural celebrations, Beverly said, adding that her students liked making their costumes and pretending that they lived in China. She wasn't happy when I persisted in asking, “What was the question that these costumes answered? Did your students learn the concept of cultural celebrations, or simply replicate costumes worn to celebrate Chinese New Year?”
Beverly was in the first Design-Based Learning master's program cohort group at Cal Poly Pomona in 1995. To begin using her innate creative abilities, she just needed the spark of motivation ...
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