Teaching Tips to Enhance Creativity
Besides utilizing specific games, you can enhance creativity through the way you teach and interact with your students. Whenever possible, let students pick their own topics for presentations, projects and writing assignments; this will jumpstart creative thinking.
Asking certain types of questions during lessons is also a great way to get their imaginations churning. Depending on the subject matter at hand, you can ask students questions regarding different ways to accomplish a particular task, how something might be improved, other uses for a particular object, different ways of accomplishing a particular task, what might happen if a certain element of the situation was changed, etc…
Encourage group collaboration as much as possible; this is an important skill that will serve them well later in life. Working with others and being exposed to their creative process can also help in building a student’s own creativity. These are just a few of them any ways you as a teacher can foster creativity in students.