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THREE LESSONS ON CREATIVE LEARNING

Most teachers would agree that creativity should be a central part of the
educational process, not only to help students achieve good grades, but also as
a way to prepare them for success in life. On the other hand, the need to
evaluate student performance and the limited time available often prevent
creative thinking activities from taking place in the classroom.
So how could we begin to incorporate the implementation of creative thinking
into our lesson plans? To help teachers understand how some important life
skills for the 21st century can be incorporated into English language teaching
programs. Each of these competencies is divided into three areas. In the case
of creative thinking, they are as follows:

Preparing for creativity

Generate ideas

Putting ideas into practice and solving problems

We can prepare students for creative activity by asking them to participate in


exercises that encourage the development of creative skills (role-playing,
listening to music, developing creative tasks, brainstorming grammar rules
and the meaning of new words, games where they have to empathize with
someone to take other perspectives, etc.).

Learners can be encouraged to generate ideas by creating a safe environment


where they are not afraid to make suggestions during activities, helping them
to explain in detail what they want to say, and praising their originality and
imagination. It is important to help students put ideas into practice and solve
problems by allowing them to test and refine things they have imagined in the
classroom. These are simple steps that can be easily adopted and included in
your educational practice.
If students have ideas, but never put them into practice, they are practicing
imagination, but not creativity.
It's great for students to use their imaginations to discuss different
possibilities. However, make sure that, from time to time, something comes
up. For example, you can ask them to imagine that they are on a desert island
and have to make a list of the things they need to survive. But to what extent
would this be practical and useful? Aren't there other possible situations in
which they would have the opportunity to apply the results of the creative
thinking process? Are you able to create a real situation in the school where
the students have to find creative ways to solve a problem and really test it?

Creativity requires practice and discipline if it is to become something


that can be learned and improved.

What if you created a tradition in your classes? Can you think of an activity to
repeat during the course, something that can be done with some regularity,
that encourages group participation and invites them to be creative? Whatever
you decide to do, remember that the more students practice creative thinking,
the better they will get at it.
Each of us faces a different reality, but we should always consider creative
thinking as a key component of our educational practice.

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