Teacher's Life (Priyanka Saxena)

CREATIVITY   An ability to imagine something new. We are not God who can create new from nothing; we generally generate ideas or create ideas by combining, changing or reapplying the existing ideas. An attitude, the ability to accept change and newness, willingness to play with new ideas, a habit of enjoying goods and looking for ways to improve it. A process works hard to improve ideas and solutions by making changes in their work. A creative person always knows that there is room for improvement. Negative attitude that blocks creativity:   ·   Oh no problem ·   It can’t be done ·   I can’t do it or there’s nothing I can do ·   But I am not creative ·   That’s childish ·   I might fail   Myths about creative thinking and problem solving: a. Every problem has only one solution b. The best answer solution has already been found c. Creative answers are complex technologically d. Ideas either come or they don’t nothing will help e. Mental block of creative thi

  Thinking in simple words is creating words and ideas inside your own head. Thinking is manipulating information as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving reason and make decisions. It produces thoughts. A thought may be an idea, an image, a sound or even an emotional feeling. Features  Important aspects of one’s cognitive behavior  Depends on both perception and memory  It is a mental process which starts with a problem and ends with a solution  It is different from daydreaming and imagination  It is a symbolic activity  It is a mental exploration instead of motor exploration. For example: if a person is locked in a room and loses his keys, he will start searching for them in different places...this is motor exploration. If he tries to think of different ways of how to get out of room is mental exploration. Types  Convergent thinking is a process of thinking which focuses on coming up with the single well established answer to a problem. Divergent thinking involves breaki