creativity in teaching?

Why is it important to be creative when it comes to teaching? “ Creativity is a cluster of skills that are needed to produce ideas that are both original and valuable” (Sternberg, 2001), and Teaching Creatively has been defined as “teachers using imaginative approaches to make learning more interesting, exciting and effective” (NACCCE, 1999). Creativity is one of the most important qualities of a teacher due to the fact that as teachers it is needed to catch the attention of students, if they become bored, lessons become monotonous and the teaching-learning process becomes even more difficult. When students get bored, it causes problems in the classroom management. Students tend to fall asleep most of the time because classes are boring and if they are boring is because many times teachers are not able to create a variety of activities that involve all students in the learning process. Teachers have to plan the lesson before developing the class; however, they must not do it f