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In a traditional sense, creativity conjures images of art class. An elective that’s done once the core subjects like math, reading, and science have been taught. It’s a learning cornerstone that’s often overlooked or underappreciated.

Creativity plays a much bigger role in our daily lives. Imagine the impact we could make if creativity became a part of our daily classroom curriculum.

What if there was a "creativity toolkit" that could enrich teachers' and students' skills?

These are game-changing tools that could be applied to all levels of learning, from elementary and high school to college and university-level courses. Similarly, these tools could be applied to non-traditional learning environments like online or home school.

Inspiring creativity in the classroom

Teachers, educators, tutors, and online professors are reimagining how we approach creativity.

Whether the design needs are for an elementary school classroom or a global university, teachers and students need tools.

Specifically, innovative, game-changing tools that will inspire, challenge, and promote creativity. You want to ensure your creative topics are relevant, engaging, and fun for all types of students.

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite provides a professional design toolkit to satisfy the need for creativity across all skill levels. It’s filled with tutorials, a dedicated help center, templates, sample projects, and more to make you feel like a bona fide designer.

Recognizing creativity as a skill

Many may argue it’s a talent you are born with. However, if you have the proper learning environment coupled with innovative tools, educators can indeed nurture creativity.

With your guidance as an educator, creativity can be an important core skill that can be developed and enriched with the right format and tools.

Encouraging exploration and experimentation

Within a classroom setting, teachers can organically encourage student exploration and experimentation.

In addition, there are many hands-on exercises that can encourage creative risk-taking as well as provide students with constructive feedback on projects that may not achieve their desired outcome.

According to the best-selling author and founder of The Creation Station, Sarah Cressall, here are some of her top tips for increasing creativity in the classroom:

1. Learn by doing
   Provide students with a hands-on environment that allows learning to be facilitated by doing.
2. Encourage curiosity
   Present ideas or lessons in the form of a question. Challenge the students to come up with their own answers or conclusions.
3. Allow failure
   Go beyond the rigors of standard testing with one correct answer. Encourage exploration and wrong answers.
4. Ask open-ended questions
   Allow the students to prove their thought processes and answers to a problem.
5. Embrace creativity within everyday learning
   Factor in free time during the school day to allow for freedom of expression through art, music, photography, and more.
6. Respect each child’s input
   Remind students that there is no such thing as a silly question or out-of-the-box answer. Everyone’s idea deserves to be heard and respected.
7. Present information without evaluation
   Teach a new idea or concept without a preconceived expectation or outcome. Let the students settle and absorb it without providing instant feedback or analysis.
8. Support one idea to lead to another idea
   Give ample space for creativity to dovetail into bigger ideas, concepts, and theories.
9. Introduce sensory stimuli
   Encourage creativity through stimulation using sight, sound, smell, or color.
10. Keep the options open
    Help students understand that there is often more than one right answer and multiple paths to arrive at the same conclusion or end point.

Within this learning environment, teachers will have significant opportunities to infuse creativity into each day. With foundational elements in hand, students can apply their learning beyond the classroom.

Here are some ideas based on student age and classroom dynamics:

Teachers
Create professional-quality content for yourself or as part of your curriculum.

Primary and secondary schools
Enrich students’ lives with the joy of visual creativity and the power of self-expression. .

Higher education and universities
Expand opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and resourcefulness for students and post-graduates.

Here are some of the classroom activities that can foster and nurture creativity:

• Implement creativity within a classroom layout, like a dedicated reading nook or art area.
• Assign group projects within a college-level course. Allow students to brainstorm, collaborate, and problem-solve in new and creative ways.
• Offer open-ended assignments with no right or wrong answer and give constructive feedback instead of a letter grade.
• Provide a literal blank canvas to allow for creative exploration.
• Lead by example. Model and demonstrate your own creativity in the classroom.
• Prepare lesson plans in fresh and unexpected ways.

Graphic design can play an essential role in instructional design by helping to create materials that are visually appealing, easy to understand, and engaging for learners.

The collection of applications, features, and tools can be used to create diagrams, infographics, and other visual aids that help learners understand complex concepts.

Creating customized learning content for engaging experiences

Creativity, in all its forms, should not be overlooked or dismissed when preparing a school curriculum at any grade level.

The earlier students are introduced to the thought process of imagination, ingenuity, and artistry, the sooner they will be able to apply these principles in all classroom learning and beyond.

Embracing the power of personalized learning

No two students are alike, and neither are their learning styles. You need to meet students where they are and respect their individual learning styles, skills, and academic strengths.

As an instructor, you want to make education as relevant and effective as possible. One way to increase engagement is with personalized learning to match individual needs.

It’s a proven method that customizes learning to match a student’s individual needs instead of a single brushstroke for the entire classroom.

Personalized learning can be implemented in four impactful ways:

1. Student-initiated learning. Students can choose how they learn best in a classroom and what style is best matched to their learning goals.
2. Flexible progression. Students set the pace of how quickly or slowly they progress through their assignments based on their learning and comprehension skills.
3. Applicable skills. Teachers are focused on how the student is absorbing and processing the information versus teaching to the test.
4. Flexible learning environments. Personalized learning methods can be applied in the classroom, at home, or in a collaborative environment.

Increasing creativity with individualized learning

What will students gain from personalized learning? Since the premise of this learning option is based on an individual approach, the outcomes can be just as varied.

Here’s a snapshot of positive student outcomes:

Improving engagement
Students can pursue topics of interest to them.

Supporting soft skill development
In addition to the educational benefits, personalized learning also expands much-needed soft skills such as collaboration, communication, adaptability, leadership, and problem-solving.

Increasing digital literacy
Although most current students have grown up alongside technology, there are still new areas for exploration and education within our digital world.

Advancing enrichment opportunities
This key factor allows advanced students to take on more projects as they excel and provides more time for students who may learn at a different pace than their peers.

Embracing game-changing tools in graphic design

Now that you have identified the need for expanding creativity and personalized learning in your classroom, you will need the right tools to support those efforts properly.

One such resource is CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, an intuitive, cost-effective graphic design toolkit for education featuring transformative tools. It enables you and your students to work faster and smarter and expand their creative capabilities.

Implementing cutting-edge tools for classroom success

To foster and expand creativity in the classroom, you need tools that are easily accessible, intuitive, and can quickly engage learners of all types.

Adding CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to your classroom will provide all the innovative tools and features needed for graphic design success.

Take a closer look at the specific tools and features that bring a new level of curiosity, exploration, imagination, and creativity to your classroom and projects:

• Cutting-edge tools for drawing, layout, illustration, and image editing.
• Powerful photo editing to correct red eye, remove backgrounds, and add effects.
• Intuitive page layout tools for multi-page documents, presentations, and more.
• Extensive typography and font management tools.
• Perspective drawing adds the illusion of depth and distance.
• Web graphics tools to add vector images to websites, social media, and more.
• Thousands of creative assets and templates to give you a head start on design and layout.
• Non-destructive effects to experiment over and over again without losing your original content.
• Bitmap-to vector-tracing with AI assistance to quickly produce a larger, high-quality vector image.
• Extensive file compatibility to share designs, projects, and files with students and colleagues.
• Convenient PDF file import to bring files into CorelDRAW for additional edits.

Designing with confidence with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is your fully loaded professional design toolkit for creating vector illustration, layout, photo editing, and typography projects with total efficiency.

Expand any classroom lesson or project with the affordable, ever-evolving CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, packed with all the tools you need for graphic design.

Giving students key skills for future success

Beyond the core benefit of creativity, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite will also instill key skills that students can utilize at home, on the job, and in future projects. Take a look:

• Provide a jump start on graphic design experience.
• Learn how to navigate within a complete graphic design toolbox.
• Explore how to use 7 different applications in one suite.
• Collaborate and work anywhere, on any device.
• Benefit from intuitive tools, learning materials, and sample projects.

Getting started with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

Now that you have a roadmap for creativity, a summary of classroom perks, and the benefits of personalized learning, learn how CorelDRAW can help you bring it all together.

Using step-by-step tutorials

Learning a new product might feel like the first day of school for some. It could be intimidating, coupled with a learning curve. Rest assured that CorelDRAW provides a user-friendly interface and personalized learning tools to help you get comfortable quickly.

Learn new techniques with personalized practice project recommendations tailored to your skill level and experience.

We can show you how to customize your profiles to help you access relevant practice files and on the most helpful features.

Taking advantage of time-saving templates 

Our tutorial will teach you how to easily search, sort, and download individual templates in the online view and see templates recommended for you.

Want to put a personal spin on your template? Learn how easy it is to modify templates to meet all your classroom needs.

Exploring innovative features and extensive learning topics

Once you have your creative goals and lesson plans in mind, we are available to guide you through the steps for success.

You will find an extensive collection of resources that will help new users acclimate to the product, including tutorials, webinars, and other valuable guides.

If you already have some design expertise on your resume, then you can either get a refresher course on your favorite features or explore some of our newest, most innovative tools in our latest product release.

Whatever your level of comfort, you will feel supported by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. Here’s how:

Choosing game-changing tools to teach and stimulate creativity

Empower our next generation of learners and future graphic design professionals with software that exemplifies the definition of creativity.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is intuitive and cost-effective, providing the game-changing tools needed for design success in any learning environment.

In addition to stimulating creativity, here are some key takeaways for incorporating graphic design software into your classroom and your curriculum:

• Creative
• User-friendly
• Comprehensive
• Productive
• Flexible & affordable purchasing options

Students can apply their design skills in their next level of learning or a future career. You can be a source of inspiration and deliver the necessary skills to empower our future learners and leaders. Choose CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. It’s a game-changer for creativity.