Nine Classroom Creativity Killers Marvin Bartel - 2001
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/creativitykillers.html
I liked this article and it is definitely worth reading. Following is an example of one of Bartel's nine classroom creativity killers.
# 4. I Kill Creativity when I Demonstrate instead of having students Practice.
I can sleep through a demonstration. I can not sleep through a hands-on practice lesson. Tell me and I might remember a little while - if I listen. Show me and I will remember a bit longer - if I pay attention. Have me do it - I learn it. When I demonstrate, I still get quite a few questions about what I "taught". When I direct a practice session nearly everybody feels confident to do it again using their own ideas. If a demo is the only way, I find that it needs to immediately followed by practice, not by the final product assignment. A demonstration can cause the aborting of imagined ideas before they are born. It implies a "right" way. I never see what a student might have imagined had I not provided the "right" way.