Nurturing Creativity in the Visual Arts Classroom Understanding Teacher Strategies through Amabile's Componential Theory

Creative skill-building is a major focus of educational systems around the world. In this article, we draw on data from four K-12 visual arts teachers to illustrate pedagogical strategies used support students’ creative development. We adopt Teresa Amabile’s Componential Theory Creativity frame teachers’ approaches skill-building, identifying how they nurtured students’task motivation, domain-specific skills, and creativity-relevant processes. By presenting teaching in way, hope enable art educators recognize, shape, enhance their own can development student creativity classroom.