Creative Thinking
- 1. Creative Thinking What is creativity? •Creative thinking is characterized by sensitivity lo problems, fluency and flexibility of thinking, originality, ability to analyze and synthesize and the ability to redefine things. -Guilford •Creativity means forming new combinations of associative elements. - Mednik •Creative thinking involves new forms of thinking away from the traditional norms. - Simpson
- 2. Characteristics of creativity • “The factors of creativity are Fluency, Originality, Flexibility and ability to make logical evaluation.” - C.V.Good • “ Thus creativity includes curiosity, research, imagination, novelty, invention.” - Simpson
- 3. Main characteristics of Creativity 1.Flexibility 2.Fluency 3.Originality 4.Divergent Thinking 5.Sensitivity 6.Curiosity 7.Persistence and Concentration 8.Commitment 9.Sense of humour
- 4. 1.Flexibility The ability to go beyond traditions, habits and the obvious To turn ideas and materials to new different and unusual uses. The creative to adopt new attitude, idea or behavior. 2.Fluency The ability to think many ideas. The ability to think many possible solutions. Ability to create a flow thoughts and feelings through creative productions. 3.Originality A creative person is not confined to ideas and experiences heard or read Originality in combining associating and presenting / performing in a new form. Self reliance in thinking
- 5. 4.Divergent Thinking Inquiring, searching around leading to unexpected and unconventional answers. Thinking in different directions . Searching for variety of answers . 5.sensitivity The ability to - sense the problem - see deficiencies and needs in life. - accept the challenge to find innovative solutions. Sensitivity - To our own inner life and feeling. - To the thoughts and feelings of others
- 6. 6.Curiosity - Openness to new ideas and experiences . - Actively experimenting with ideas and pleasure in seeking and discovering ideas. - Curiosity leads to divergence in perception. - Thinking and behavior. 7.Persistence and concentration - Ability to work hard , long , consistently and persistently with extraordinary concentration. 8.Commitment -Deep involvement - Deep caring - intense commitment
- 7. 9.Sense of Humor - The ability to see and express the humor in the contradiction and ambiguities of life. - To maintain balance without losing commitment.
- 8. How to develop Creativity? 1. For fluency of ideas - Ask them to suggest us many uses of key words, phrases, structures etc. As they can in various contexts. - Ask them to think/ write on a topic as much as they can. 2. For curiosity, sensitivity, and sense of observation - Use unseen pictures, videos, poems, paragraphs, texts, stories, oral expression etc. as a reference in your classroom teaching assign tasks and generate their response. 3. For encouraging new ideas, brainstorming - Do not criticize ideas while they are being given. - The wilder the ideas the better. - The more the merrier. - Encourage combining on improving upon ideas already given.
- 9. 4. Encourage imagination through - Using “ if I were…” “I would/ will/ can” structures in various situations. - Providing various poetic language pieces. - Explaining, illustrating and giving tasks on figures of speech in poetry. 5. Understanding the importance of creativity to society - Writing reports on various inventions. - Telling them stories/ lives of the famous creative personality of the world. - Ask them to write answer to the following questions. 1. what do you especially like to create? 2. what materials do you need for creation? 3. Do you like to work alone or with others? 4. Do you like to work at any special time of day?
- 10. 6. For originality - Assign them the same task and tell them to try to be different from others. - ask them a striking questions at once different from the subject/ topic you are discussing.