Creativity has three components: novel, effective, and whole. As a teacher, I can be creative about the way I decide to teach a lesson. I got to be creative when deciding how I would teach students how to solve a system of equations. I was able to determine in what way I wanted to present the content to my students and through what technologies. My lesson is novel in the way that I came up with it as an original lesson. The lesson is effective in the way that it will teach my students how to solve for a system of equations. Lastly, my lesson as a whole will allow students to understand the topic through direct instruction with some technology. I designed this lesson based off of my current knowledge of the content and technologies. My decisions are an example of how a teacher is a designer. As a teacher, we lesson plan and design what and how we are going to teach.
