Inventiveness

            Teaching students to be creative and imaginative is probably one of the hardest skills to teach, especially as the students get older. In order to teach creativity, one must teach creatively. That means breaking free from the curriculum, trying new things, and thinking outside the box when it comes to teaching. I think teachers need to consider the students’ learning first – what will benefit them the most and to stress less about what the administrators and school board want.

            Some keys to creative teaching include straying away from a one-answer world and giving students the ability to choose what they want to learn. Most classrooms today operate on a one-answer system: either it’s right or it’s wrong. I think students need to explore the world of the unknown. I know that as a student, I wasn’t introduced to the world of the unknown until probably senior year of high school. When students are exposed to the multiple-answers world, they will start looking for answers in several places, which encourages creativity and imagination. Furthermore, when students get to choose what they want to learn, they have more motivation to dig deeper and explore the world which they are studying.

            In the 21^st century, creativity is vital for the students to learn in order to survive in the workplace. The world that the students will enter into is rapidly changing every day. In order to keep up, they need to be able to adapt and think imaginatively and creatively.