Elicia's House of Creative Delights

Throughout this course, my understanding of creativity has expanded from something intuitive to something intentional, structured, and deeply relational. I’ve always felt creative, but I now recognize the many ways creativity already lives in my practice—through problem-solving, visual design, boundary-pushing, and building learning experiences that invite curiosity. I also see how every learner, teacher or student, expresses creativity differently, and how important it is to value that diversity.

To capture and share this learning, I created a Creativity Combo Platter Learning Menu, a playful yet purposeful artifact that helps teachers explore creativity through choice, reflection, and action. Each “dish” aligns with ideas from the course: the universality of creativity, Beghetto’s insights on risk and assessment, the Thinking Tools, and the need to redesign learning in ways that foster originality and authenticity.

Engaging with this menu encourages teachers to blend disciplines, strategies, and perspectives—mirroring what the Root-Bernsteins describe as a transdisciplinary, synthetic education, where creativity emerges from fluid movement across ideas and fields. This artifact represents not just my growth, but a practical tool to help others nurture creativity in themselves, their teaching, and ultimately, their students.

References:

Root-Bernstein, R. S., & Root-Bernstein, M. M. (1999). Sparks of genius: The thirteen thinking tools of the world’s most creative people (Ch. 16). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.