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Creativity

  1. Can you describe what a creative person is like? Why is it necessary to be creative today? Can you give examples illustrating that creativity is required in all fields of life?

  1. See the following list of verbs taken from the texts on creativity and decide which of them may be used to describe a creative approach to teaching? And a counterproductive approach?

to accomplish

to generate

to prohibit

to arm

to go beyond

to promote

to become stuck with

to go through

to shake up

to challenge

to hamper

to squash

to diminish

to impede

to stick with

to eliminate

to invest in

to stimulate

to empower

to master

to suppress

to encourage

to nourish

to surmount

to excite

to obstruct

to tolerate

to extinguish

to preclude

to transform

  1. Continue the following sentences by picking up verbs from the list above:

  • Creativity may be (e. g. challenged) … by…

  • It should not be (e. g. suppressed)… by…

  • Being creative one needs / need not (e. g. tolerate ambiguity)…

  1. May the following challenge students’ creativity? How? Give examples.

  • teaching aids;

  • physical arrangement of tables and chairs;

  • mistakes;

  • assessments;

  • assignments?

  1. Meet the peers who have read the same text on creativity and identify which topics the text develops. Agree on the key ideas.

  1. Meet the peers who have read different texts on creativity. Exchange the selected information minding the following table. Fill it in concisely while interacting.

Definition of creativity

Levels at which creativity may be displayed

Abilities that creativity is related to

Decisions to be creative

Strategies to be creative

Creative environment, its characteristics

Stages of creativity’s development

  1. Can you sum up information for each of the columns?

  1. Imagine examples illustrating the above columns to show that they do work. Let your group mates guess what column you are trying to illustrate (e. G. A decision, a strategy or environment).

  1. Choose a quotation from the text and get ready to comment on it:

  1. Assessing creativity can sometimes be difficult.

  2. The environment should stimulate questions, and the physical arrangement of tables and chairs should encourage the discussion and sharing of insights and knowledge.

  3. If everything is already spelled out then there is little opportunity for creativity.

  4. Active failure is the highway to success.

  5. Creative thinking is every bit as malleable as critical thinking.

  6. It is only in older children and adults that it so often is absent, not because they lack the potential, but because creativity has been suppressed by socialization that encourages conformity.

  7. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to do so, but when you show them how.

  8. Schools tend to be unforgiving of mistakes.

  9. To encourage creativity, you need to include in your assignments and tests at least some opportunities for creative thought.

  10. Students who fail to acquire a flexible and creative attitude toward life are at risk for obsolescence, not only in their knowledge, but also in their skills for coping with life.

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