Developing Creativity Among Children
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Creativity is a blessing from nature but we can develop it by careful planning through education. It is necessary that parents and teachers provide healthy conditions at home and in the school. This would enable children to express themselves and contribute something new for the society, which may be termed as creativity.
- Freedom to Respond: Children generally respond to teachers in a usual and routine manner. Parents and teachers should encourage children to respond in their own way. They may be allowed to say what they would like to say. This would lead to creativity. If there is problem in the class, let every child respond in his own way. The teacher should keep in view that every child has a contribution to make. Allow them to think in various directions and express their creativity.
- Satisfy the “Ego” of the Child:
All of us have a “self ego”. We want to be recognized by others. This ‘ego’ is all the more stronger at the childhood stage. We as parents and teachers should try to provide opportunities to satisfy it.
- Encourage Original Ideas: If we find that a child achieved his original ideas about a particular aspect of life, we should encourage it. Constant submission to facts suppresses the originality of the child. It has been correctly said ‘Uniformity is the enemy of originality”.
- Remove Hesitation and Fear: Most of the times children are kept under strict control. They fear their parents and are afraid of speaking their mind. This kills the initiative of the child. Originality is only possible when we give enough freedom to children to express their own views.
- Provide Suitable Atmosphere: The watchwords for the provision of this type of atmosphere are: Sympathy, liberty and proper provision of co-curricular activities in the school.
- Developing Special Habits: Children require special habits to be creative. These habits are hard work, persistent effort, self-reliance, and self confidence.
- Let the Children Meet Creativity: Every community has centers where creativity can be seen easily. We may organize excursions to centers of art, art galleries, museums and places of artistic excellence. Thus they will come in contact with creativity and get inspiration to create something new.
- Avoid the Stumbling Blocks to Creativity
порно фото молоденьких : Certain factors like conservative outlooks, an unsympathetic attitude towards children, fixed and rigid habits of work, unnecessary anxiety, over emphasis over school work, authoritarian attitude of the teacher, etc. are some of the stumbling blocks in the path of creativity. We should try to avoid these stumbling blocks as far as possible. - Reorganize the Curriculum: Certain principles should be kept in view while reorganizing the curriculum-
- The curriculum should be child-centered.
- The curriculum should highlight ideal concepts than facts.
- It should highlight that children have the capacity to find out truth and discover things.
- It should reduce the importance of annual examination.
- It should allow the child to do something in the academic field freely without the fear of examination.
- Reform the Evaluation System: Much has been said about reforms in the system of evaluation. We can say that the child’s progress should be judged for what he does during the entire year and not on the basis of achievement in the annual examination. Day to day progress of the child should be assessed and entered in a cumulative. Any observation showing creativity of the child should be clearly indicated in this card.
- Use of Some Special Techniques:
Mention may be made of special psychological techniques to find out creativity of the child:-
- Brain Storming: It implies storming the brain of the child with new ideas and noting down reactions and techniques of solving them as suggested by the child. This reaction takes place in the classroom where every child gets an opportunity to express his ideas. When reactions of the entire class are noted down, a free discussion follows. Common suggestions are weaned out and these leads to creativity.
- Using of Teaching Models: Certain teaching models suggested by psychologists are of immense value for locating creativity of children. Two such models are i) Bruner’s Concept Attainment Model and ii) Suchman Inquiry Training Model.
- Use of Gaming Technique: Children like to play. So we should try to find out their creative talent through games.We may organize games of this type in the class. Some examples of such games are:
i) Name all the square things you can think of.
ii) What will you do if you get oil paints and a brush? etc.
They may also be given things and asked to build anything they like.
- Self Example is Better than Precept: Parents and teachers may keep in view that if they want their children to create something new, they themselves should be devoted persons and put forward an example before their children in the field of creativity.
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