What are benefits and role of creativity in schools?

Answer 1

Creativity in Schools be viewed in two ways. Either the creativity a teacher uses to conduct a lesson or the creativity elicited from students. Teachers can be creative in many ways especially when it comes to the design of a lesson plan. To be creative is to do something out of the norm which is original and can work. Moreover, if that idea is implemented and replaces an existing process that was not as efficient, it also becomes innovative. For instance, a teacher may decide to create a lesson plan on a jacket and draw the educational concepts from the fabric, buttons, design layout etc.... This may seem as an absurd idea but one which might work, or could be developed to create an innovative idea. It is very important that teachers are creative in the classroom because even though concepts are taught in the same way through a standard lesson, the creative lessons are more fun thus motivating to the students It has been proven that children are very creative for the reason that they think recursively. To give an example of how a recursive thinker thinks, For instance, if you would ask two people how to put a giraffe in a car, they would probably tell you to open the door and put it in. now if you ask them how to place an elephant in the car, a person who is not a recursive thinker would probably say open the door and put it in. The one who is would probably say take out the giraffe and put in the elephant, because such a thinker can link one situation to a previous one. This linking to different situations is the essence of creativity. Since up until now creativity was not stressed upon, its importance was lost and so was the creative thinking of those children who grew up. That is why sometimes we hear someone say that children are more creative than grownups. Edward de Bono, a pioneer in creative thinking wrote more about this in his book Serious Creativity and he referred to recursive thinking as movement (children) and non-recursive thinking as judgment (grownups). So if children are encourage (in schools) to think creatively they would probably retain such thinking even when they grow up. This is important because creative thinking allows a person to come up with original and novel ideas which could change the world for the best.