How can we move from simply teaching content to cultivating creative minds?
The answer is pedagogy and not just any pedagogy. The Vivedus approach emphasizes Teaching for Creativity: strategic choices teachers make to foster flexible, confident, innovative learners.
What Does It Mean to “Teach for Creativity”?
It means designing learning so that students:
- Solve open-ended problems
- Ask deep, divergent questions
- Take risks, reflect, and create meaningful responses
These aren’t accidental by-products. They emerge through intentional pedagogical moves.
Using Pedagogies to Shape Activity
The Vivedus Pedagogies for Creativity (TFC1–TFC22) help you:
- Frame tasks that build skill and imagination
- Embed autonomy and experimentation
- Sequence feedback to foster creative confidence
Example: Pedagogy number TFC16 encourages learners to solve open-ended problems - aligning well with challenges in STEM, HASS, or The Arts.
Aligning Pedagogy with Purpose
Each learning experience can be strengthened by asking:
- What disposition am I hoping to foster?
- What type of thinking does this activity encourage?
- Which pedagogical moves will make this happen?
By pairing pedagogies with objectives and dispositions, you build learning that is cognitively rich and creatively empowering.
Supported by ViV-iT
When planning your unit, the Vivedus Platform helps you select the right pedagogies for your objectives and dispositions making sure your lessons don’t just deliver content, they transform it.
Read the next resource: How to Build Question Banks That Align with Curriculum and Improve Classroom Practice
