THE CREATIVE CHILD
A creative child is one who has got an ability to create,
discover or produce a new idea or objects including the rearrangement or
reshaping of what is already known to him. A creative child is curious, resourceful,
flexible, open-minded, and sensitive to problems and shows originality of ideas
and expression.
Characteristic of Creative Children
The
following are the important characteristic features of a creative child:
1. He demonstrates originality in ideas and action.
2. He develops intuition in his problems.
3. Possess a high degree of keenness, attentiveness, alertness,
and power of concentration.
4. He is very curious by nature and possesses foresightedness
in abundance.
5. Possesses a high degree of sense
itivity towards problems.
6. He demonstrates the ability to transfer learning from one
situation to another.
7. He demonstrates very rich creative imagination and is
divergent and diversified in his thinking.
Identification of creative Children
The
teacher can identify a creative child by making use of a test of creativity or
by making use of non-testing devices like observation, interview, rating scale,
check-list etc.
Role of the teacher
The teacher can take following steps to foster creativity
among his students:
1. Divergent thinking develops creativity. So encourage the
children to think about as many ideas as they may for the solution of the
problem.
2. Originality on the part of the children in any form
should be encouraged.
3. Appropriate opportunities and atmosphere for creative
expressions should be provided in the school. The child should never be snubbed
for his curiosity and creativity.
4. Develop healthy habits like industriousness, persistence,
reliance, self-confidence etc. Which will help in creativity out-put?
5. Factors like conservation, unsympathetic treatment, fixed
and rigid habits of work, anxiety and frustration, over emphasis on school
marks, authoritarian attitude of parents and teachers etc. block creative
thinking. So such factors should be eliminated.
6. Artistic expression gives an opportunity to originate new
ideas. Schools can develop creativity through artistic expression by providing
materials.
7. Students should be given full freedom for the development
of their imagination because imagination helps in the development of
creativity.
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