Dear colleges, it’s the beginning of a new school year, and we’re expected to be creative at our lessons to inspire the creativity in our students. But…
There comes a period in the life of every creative teacher when their mind goes blank, as if it has reached a saturation point and all your efforts to draw inspiration from the world around and create something original become futile. Your mind keeps looping around the same ideas over and over again, unable to think of anything beyond it. Nothing seems to spark the fire of creativity inside, and a sense of cluelessness steps in. That’s how a creative slump can feel to a teacher —something that can be utterly frustrating, to say the least.
The inability to think outside the box can result from mental fog, which in turn comes when you are in a negative frame of mind. Do you know how to channel your internal distress toward creative pursuits? What do you do to let your brain get time to rearrange the thought process and give you a fresh perspective? How to overcome a rigid way of thinking?
