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 from one moment to another and good teachers are able to create lessons that help the students to remain attentive to what is being taught, but above all with a creative lesson, teachers make that students learn. Besides, with creativity teachers brakes all the barriers; accordingly, they make students to think in a critical way, which is crucial. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, the "father" of constructivism, education has two main purposes: to empower learners to think for themselves, and to promote in the next generation ways of thinking and acting that are deemed important by the present generation (Glasersfeld, 1995). Which means that during classes there must be a good interaction with all of them and not allowing classes to be monotonous.

What is usually practiced in the classrooms in a repetitive way, especially in the universities, is the exhibition of text contents, usually written by others different from those they exhibit. Pupils take notes, they learn mechanically to reproduce in the exams what they have told them; they learn it, but, generally, they do not understand it. They do not care, what they are interested in is approving, this is the treatment that is done today of knowledge. Therefore, the student-teacher relationship is very important and the tasks that are carried out throughout the year must be very different from what is usual. The best teaching-learning process occurs when teachers teach their students from heart to heart and not from head to head, that is, what can be sown in them to be good people, It is also one in which the teacher creates different activities so that their students learn according to their type of learning  and it is only possible with creativity.

In conlusion, creativity is an essential quality that teachers must learn to develop since this gives a better teaching-learning process, monotony is avoided and prevents students from being bored in class and also because students are required to be creative and critical thinkers, so teachers  need to foster it to them. 
References:
according to onestopenglish.com/methodology/teaching-tips/teaching-creatively/teaching-creatively-what-is-creativity/555641.article

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