The creative teacher

The creative teacher

What is a creative teacher?
You can visualize the creative teacher as the one who is imaginative, vigorous, active, and filled with spirit. He also makes use of lots of experiments, activities, and has a wide range of teaching methods that he performs beautifully.
From another point of view, the creative teacher can be someone who causes his students to be creative. He even may not have the qualities usually related to the traditional creative teacher. His main concern is to provide an environment in which children can manifest themselves using words, body, and experimenting. He creates a place that fosters expressiveness and originality.
This kind of teacher steems non ordinary questions or answers. He has courage to discuss, and, more importantly, supports the test of original thinking.
By showing a misterious strange phenomenon we can start creative thinking. By bringing new materials, or by using common materials used in new situations we can make children discover the hidden nature of things.

When creative thinking does not occur
Even when the teacher is experienced and have prepared an good class, there can be still no creative environment. Many of the cracks originate not from the preparation of the lesson, but of the teacher.
If the teacher talks too much to introduce the point, or if the teacher asks and listen to the children's commentaries but do not follow them up, these are ones of the most common mistakes. However, when children are left alone, they engage themselves actively in the problem.

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