Teaching Through Play: Overcoming Fear to Discover Possibility

The Play and Fear: Demystifying the Creative Process Institute worked toward understanding how play tactics could benefit the learning process. Jenna and Shoshanna led teachers to collaboratively brainstorm ideas using visual mapping. Many of the words teachers used to describe the learning process could be used interchangeably with the creative process; curiosity, inquiry, motivation, experimentation, risk taking, frustration, persistence, practice, discovery, problem solving, and reflection all describe how many contemporary artist work today.