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Importance of Creativity in Teaching
Creativity is developed with a foundation of knowledge, learning a discipline, and mastering a way of thinking. We learn to be creative by experimenting, exploring, questioning assumptions, using imagination and synthesizing information
Creativity is one of the most appreciated learning skills, whose development has been considered essential to achieving effective and high-level learning. It has been defined as a result, as a process, as a construct derived from the influence of the experience and as a personality feature of human nature. The focus has been centred on highlighting the development of creativity from an educational approach, starting from the description, implication of the use and application of creative strategies in the teaching and learning processes.
Higher-order thinking skills are those involved in competent and strategic thinking, and these skills include critical, creative, and metacognitive thinking, also known as deep learning. In addition, the development of creativity is now considered essential to achieving effective high-level learning.
Despite the observed need for the development of creativity in the curriculum, there is a general tendency to reproduce teaching and learning models, and teachers’ search for methods of teaching creativity is limited, resulting in low creativity development in students, with reproductive learning. Creativity is inherent in human development and personality. It begins to develop from the early years of school and continues into higher education, growing with the number of experiences that individuals have and to the extent that the work of teachers could encourage them.
Therefore, creativity has been an essential skill for the design and development of a curriculum. The concept and psychological construct of creativity were defined and later the psychological process involved was discussed to implement teaching and learning strategies geared towards it.
Creativity is the ability to produce creative products, hence a creative person is a person who produces creative products regularly.
A creative product is defined as something new, original, appropriate or valuable in a specific context. These qualities have also been summed up in two fundamental aspects of creative products, namely novelty and quality. which must also include originality or appropriateness.
Teachers play an important role in developing students’ creativity. It is reasonable to assume that how teachers respond to their students’ ideas, views and suggestions during the lesson has an impact on students’ subsequent effort and propensity to develop new ideas, views and suggestions.
Creativity involves the generation of new ideas or the recombination of known elements into something new, thereby providing valuable solutions to a problem. This includes motivation and emotions. In this tutorial, we will discuss all the areas that creativity influences and how to nurture them in your career path.
Creative teaching is the process that leads to creative learning through the implementation of new methods, tools and content that stimulate the creative potential of learners.
Creative activity can help teachers to learn more about what the child may be thinking or feeling. Creativity also fosters mental growth in children by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas, and new ways of thinking and problem-solving.
Creativity is an important skill that students need to succeed in school and life. It helps in problem-solving, contributes to our satisfaction in life and gives us purpose. Being creative helps us relax and brings joy to our lives.
