Hold a Film or Art Festival: Celebrate Student Excellence, Encourage Creativity & Build Rapport
Part of building rapport with students is finding ways to learn about these hidden talents and showing an interest in what is going on in their lives beyond your class period.
– Dave Burgess
INTRO
Plan a film or arts festival to showcase students’ creativity and original work. Consider developing the projects in a core class that most students participate in.
THINK skills and behaviors are often grounded in critical thinking and inquiry. Examples include: ideation, creativity, innovation, and design thinking. Ultimately, THINK is about approaching situations and ideas with versatile and intentional thinking patterns.
OBJECTIVES
- Brainstorm and start planning for how your school/district can host student art and/or film festivals to showcase your students’ wide range of talents
ACTIVITY
- Plan a film or arts festival to showcase students’ creativity and original work.
- Consider how to engage and highlight the work of students who might not immediately volunteer.
- Consider developing the projects in a core class that most students participate in.
- Feeling overwhelmed? Check out the resources for tips and guides on how to get started
- Check out the blog resource for why these types of activities/events are so important for our students
TIPS
- Key Moves are efforts that require a bit of planning, but can be implemented within the next 3-6 months
- Like this activity? Check out Inflexion’s full-page THINK document for more ideas.
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