Everyone has the capacity for creativity, but not all choose to use their creativity for performance. We can boost our own innovative thinking by knowing how creative persons think and act.

                Creative people have diverse thought patterns and styles. They can look at ideas from different

perspectives, even dropping cherished beliefs and rules in the quest for a fundamental breakthrough in

thinking. This is the opposite of narrow or “tunnel thinking” in which a number of ideas are variations of the original idea. Creative thinking is more complex than developing may ideas at once or manipulating ideas… it’s creating new ideas with different characteristics based on synthesis.

                Remember not all creative people are temperamental eccentrics. But many creative people tend to be both cerebral and visceral, and enjoy flights of fancy and feel unrestrained in expressing wild, even silly ideas and daydreams.

                Whatever is the case, it is important for teachers to have creative thinking for effective teaching.

By: Marites C. Pasudag | Head Teacher I | Peas Elementary School Sitio Peas | Limay, Bataan