Teaching is gaining knowledge to discover the how’s and why’s of things. A generous use of analogies works best in analyzing learning situations that call for new solutions, ideas, and many ways of doing things. 

Creativity is the ability to originate insightful procedures that lead to novel ways of approaching problem situations.

Synectics as a teaching technique, requires students to formulate analogies. It is effective among the young since they are more perceptive and imaginative. It provides opportunities for them to invent new ways of seeing things and at the same time, constructing meaning that is expressive of their own feelings.

Students enjoy constructing metaphors in comparison of self with objects or events. This is a positive ingredient towards a conscious process of developing their innovativeness.

The following strategies are useful to test student’s ability to perceive new ideas:

1. Create something new. Provide a learning activity which will elicit new solutions to old problems.

2. Make the strange familiar. Provide a learning activity that would make unfamiliar .Provide a learning activity that would make unfamiliar ideas acquire new meaning.

3. Provide more and more practice in constructing metaphors. They are mental pictures that are rich in possible interpretations.

4. Teach creative writing. Students are able to create personalized poems, essays, and short stories.

5. Solve different problems situations and teachers using the synectic model. 

By: Brenda R. Perdio | Teacher III | Bagumbayan Elementary School | Pilar, Bataan