BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY

BOOST YOUR
CREATIVITY

RASMALIZA BINTI RASHID
ZUBAIDAH BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN
SITI SARAH MALINI BINTI MOHD HANIFA





“One Voice at Time”

“Equal Voice”



Be Active…

… & Enjoy!!!



Session Objectives

Enable you to develop Creative and Innovation
Mindsets in Teaching & Learning:

In ways that emphasize creative thinking approaches to
problem solving.

So that they can develop innovative behavior and
become competitive graduates

THE FOUR QUADRANTS ACTIVITY

i. If you're stranded on a desert island and have the option of bringing
three items with you, what three items would they be?

ii. If you could have any unlimited supply of one thing for the rest of
your life, what would you pick?

iii. The zombie apocalypse is coming, who are 3 people you want on
your team?

iv. If all jobs paid the same, I’d be a…

Our journey…

WHO WE ARE

SITI SARAH MALINI BINTI RASMALIZA BINTI RASHID ZUBAIDAH BINTI ABDUL
MOHD HANIFA RAHMAN
Pernah mengikuti
Pernah mengikuti Bengkel Inovasi Dalam • Professional Certificate
Bengkel Inovasi Dalam Pendidikan (K-Inovasi) for Entrepreneurial
Pendidikan (K-Inovasi) anjuran Universiti Educator @3EP
anjuran Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Kebangsaan Malaysia • Juri jemputan Produk
Kreatif Terbaik
PROTUNe Negeri
Terengganu (2019)

IGNITING
CREATIVITY

Session Objective

To : Enable you to develop Creative Mindsets &
Competencies with your Students

In a way that:
Takes a Learning by Doing Approach
Explores our Learning Zone and what helps and hinders
learning and creativity

So that: they can connect to and develop their innate
creativity and become competitive graduates.

FRAMING THOUGHTS: CREATIVITY

• We are all innately creative, learning, adaptive beings

• Learning to BE (act, think, feel) more creative
VS

Learning ABOUT creativity

• It’s a process (trust the process)

• Easier (or less difficult) in a community of practice

Igniting Creativity

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Thoughts on Creativity on 4 Post-Its

Note: One point per post-it

What are the barriers to creative thinking?

1. Lack Of Direction From Yourself or Others
2. Being Afraid of Failure
3. Being Afraid of Rejection
4. Never Changing or Adapting to the Situation
5. Not Thinking Proactively
6. You Rationalize and Never Improve

Some creativity exercises

Take one piece of paper and pen

With two neighbours, draw a story between you,
without communicating verbally.

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How did it feel?

How did it feel?

• Have to ‘just start’ – take action
• Have to deal with ambiguity and change
• The ‘destination’ is uncertain – structure emerges over time
• Have to work as a team – members making unpredictable and

unplanned contributions



Another one !

Take your papers…



Many different solutions

• We all see things differently
• Together we have multiple solutions to the
same problem, even with apparently few
choices

Our thoughts and reactions…

• ‘Will I get it wrong?’
• ‘Is her “paper” better than my “paper”?’
• ‘Is my “paper” the best?’
• ‘Is someone watching me make a mistake?’
• ‘I don’t know how to do this…’
• ‘I don’t have enough time.’

Anyone do this?

Creative Not creative

Need creativity Don’t need creativity







People and rubber bands have one thing in common:

They must be stretched to be effective

Some of the bumps…

Students have very little time to Public sector employment
engage in optional activities restrictions

Senior champions change or People query the ‘academic’
change their priorities rigor or value

Staff see competition for Funding sources are not
resources stable

Education needs to reflect the real world…

Deep disciplinary knowledge Matured values and social
& understanding awareness

Emotional Graduate the Application and
Intelligence whole person implementation

Interpersonal communication Teamwork and
skills collaboration

Passion for Life-long Learning :
Self-efficacy, Resilience and Adaptability

But How Can we Teach…

Collaboration Creativity

Initiative Self-efficacy

Curiosity Resilience

Growth mindset vs Fixed mindset

• I can learn anything I want to.

• When I’m frustrated, I persevere.

• I want to challenge myself. • I’m either good at it, or I’m not.

• When I fail, I learn. • When I’m frustrated, I give up.

• My effort and attitude determine everything. • I don’t like to be challenged.

• When I fail, I’m no good.

• My abilities determine everything.

Change… self thought



Curiosity Learning from
Humility doing, reflecting
and intentional
Fun!
iteration

“The Secret of Genius is to Carry the Spirit of Childhood into Adulthood”
Thomas Huxley

What and How
To Be Creative

Engage others Create value

Creative mindset
is for everyone

Learn from
intentional iteration

EMBEDDING CREATIVITY IN
TEACHING AND LEARNING

BACKGROUND

OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION

The application of Outcome-based
Education (OBE) in teaching and
learning at higher education level has
been widely emphasised by the
Malaysian Ministry of Education.

The move is considered timely because there is a strong market need for graduates
that can lead, produce and implement projects and tasks upon completion of their
studies.

OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION

Today’s competitive job market puts a pressure on higher education to shift the
way university programmes are implemented.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (LOs) PROGRAMME OUTCOME
PO1 Knowledge
OBE approach to learning requires PO2 Problem Analysis
that all academic programmes fulfill PO3 Design/Development of Solution
the following nine LOs of MOHE: PO4 Investigation
PO5 Modern Tool Usage
PO6 The Engineer and Society
PO7 Environment and Sustainability
PO8 Ethics
PO9 Individual and Teamwork
PO10 Communications
PO11 Project Management and Finance
PO12 Life Long Learning

*PO FOR DEE PROGRAMME

EMBEDDING CREATIVITY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

The aim of this course is to develop relevant teaching strategies and techniques
that emphasise experience, action and reflective practices which can help
students acquire creativity traits and competencies.

EMBEDDING:

Not focus solely on the course context of syllabus.

Rationale:
i. the relevance of being creative for lecturers as a variety delivery in

teaching and learning.
ii. students that can involve actively, produce and implement tasks and

projects during their studies.

SUGGESTED PEDAGOGY

Examples of usage, possible outcomes and relevance to creative thinking