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Creative thinking is a form of cognitive thinking skill that is centered in the creation
of ideas. With that simple definition, creative thinking is also applicable not only to the
student’s cognitive development but to the teachers as well, as they need to develop this
particular skill in order to be productive in teaching (Patton & Kritsonis, 2007). Both the
teacher and the student must be aware of our own thinking skill. Are we able to create
ideas or create innovative lessons for our students? Are we able to exercise our own
creative thoughts to produce lessons that are to challenge the critical and analytical minds
of our students? These are questions often arises to teachers who has that awareness of
that need. It is important for both teachers and students learn how to sharpen these
cognitive skills. The teachers role is to plan creative lessons that develops the students to
think and create creative outputs from and for their learnings, in result developing their
creative thinking.
It is quite evident that creative thinking and critical thinking does go side by side.
One author even whimsically said: “When reasoning fails, Imagination saves you...” (Baker
et al., 2001). When a teacher understands the full capacity of critical and creative thinking,
and acknowledges its symbiosis, will be the time when the teacher will also see this
capacity with his students. The teacher then strives to enhance and make full use of these
thinking skills to their students. However, teaching these skills need more preparation
time, is difficult to implement, and often times restricts the intended content to be taught.
There are still many obstacles that stand against in the development of these thinking
skills. It is remains to be a challenge for both teacher and student to overcome these
challenges, and will take further examination of the curriculum, training of teachers, and
knowing the needs of the students, to be able and fully achieve creative thinking and
critical thinking in the classrooms.
References:
Baker, M., Rudd, R. & Pomeroy, C. (2001). Relationship between Critical and Creative
Thinking. Journal of Southern Agricultural Education Research, 51(1), 173-188.
Retrieved from http://pubs.aged.tamu.edu/conferences/SRAERC2001/pdf/e2.pdf.
Erdogan, T., Akkaya, R. & Celebi Akkaya, S. (2009). The Effect of the Van Hiele Model
Based Instruction on the Creative Thinking Levels of 6th Grade Primary Schools
Students. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 9(1), 181-194. Retrieved from
ERIC database. (EJ837779)
(5213500317) Bryan Michael G. Badana November 29, 2009
Liu, X., Ni, C., Yang, R., Li, X. & Cheng, C. (2007). Teaching Design of Cultivating
Nursing Student’s Creative Thinking. US-China Education Review, 4(7), 38-41.
Retrieved from ERIC database. (ED502469)
Patton, M. & Kritsonis, W. (2007). Great Minds Think Differently: Sustaining a System of
Thinking. Doctoral Forum National Journal for Publishing and Mentoring Doctoral
Student Research, 4, 1-15. Retrieved from ERIC database. (ED494511)