WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CREATIVITY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION?

The creativity is still something that does not have one only definition because is something general and too big for defined in a sentence. There is something that I would like to add, that it is not the same for example, the creativity that we use in an educational way than the one that for example an engineer need to use to create something or look for a solution.

In this case I am going to focused in the educational creativity and I am going to explain if it is important and the value of it in a primary school class.

First of all I would say that creativity is the base of education, not just in primary, I would say from the Early Years until university studies. A creative person means new ideas about a theme, means new studies and new ideas about something.

In the educational way, there is something that I really like and I will try to do as much as I can in my future, and is just ask the children a question about something that we are talking about and listen to the answers that they give me. What this exercise contribute you is the different ways that pupils can think and that is a way to start doing a debate with them. Also pupils start listening to the thoughts from someone else and they could learn about those.

Letting the pupils think in a freeway, that will grow up their minds as they practice using their minds and not just listening on what the teacher said.

That is another thing that the teachers in the future should change. Pupils used to listen and repeat what the teacher or what a book says, as what the majority of the society thinks is that books and teachers are always right. With the different thoughts of the children, easily we can have different conclusions and ideas about different themes. And that is a way of making our future growing properly. If we still continue educating them as the education two or three centuries ago, our future will not grow up and it will be monotonous.

As I said in other blogs before, I went this last summer to make a volunteering in Cambodia. There were some activities that I really want to do with the kids as it is about imagination, dreams and creativity. One of those activities was just make a draw about what they would like to be in a future. It is amazing how an easy activity could tell you and how much could represent of a child. I was quite impress as the majority of the boys draw that they would love to be a bus driver, but from the NGO and the girls think to be princess or as well both of them, boy and girls they would love to be one of the European monitors. I could not believe that I saw that.

Another thing that I enjoyed doing it was another activity. There were different groups and they have to create with a carton box and some watercolours a race car which they have to use to compete against the other groups. It was amazing how their ideas came on and how they create the car with not a lot of material.

For the last thing that I get so impress too it was a moment with two small girls. There is a moment after the morning shower that all the children have to wash their teeth with toothbrush that we give to them. Suddenly I saw two girls playing with the toothbrushes on the floor. They were running together and each of them with their toothbrush tied to a long rope and carried as if they were their dogs. I could not say anything as I was very surprised how their imagination and creativity works.

As I said before, another way to see easily the creativity and imagination of a child is with the draw. In a draw a child could say a lot of things without he or she knew it.

To sum up, creativity and imagination, I will say that it is the main thing for a good education and we have to let the children think in a free way as they will probably have very god ideas, and their mind could just go as far as we cannot imagine. These children in a future are the ones which are going to control our world and the future and that is why we should let them think and debate on the different opinions from the rest of the people. Another important thing, is not just the imagination from the pupil, the teacher´s imagination is as important as the pupil’s ones because they are the ones who control the situation, the ones which promotes the theme to talk about and the ones who are going to show them the first bits about every them and every subject.