Creative work is an important element in stimulating the cognitive activity of children. Every teacher in his daily practice wants to successfully solve his main task - to arouse interest in his subject, keeping within the framework of the lesson. And also to present the material in a unique and original way. Creative work can become a reliable help in this difficult task.
Individual features of children
All students are different and their ability to memorize, concentrate, actualize the material is very different. The speed of thinking, dynamic features, performance of each his own. And besides, they can vary depending on the state of health and the psyche of the student, time of day and day of the week. The teacher cannot ignore the features of personality, and ideally, he should put them at the service of the educational process. And, most importantly, not to suppress those fragile sprouts of the child’s interest in learning, which, no doubt, are present in everyone.
Creative work as a pedagogical device
To stimulate children's interest in the subject, various elements of innovative teaching technologies must be used . Such as problematic techniques, design tasks, as well as writing creative works on selected topics.
They can become an additional task or serve as a form of control. You can invite students to choose exactly how - in pairs, groups or individually - creative work should be done. At home, children can prepare illustrations for their assignment. Or take advantage of computer presentations if they are already free to use IT technology in training. There are many options for creative work: this is a poetic presentation, and a fantastic story, and inventing puzzles, and a dispute in a playful form, and compiling collages. The most creative guys can offer their options. Creative works unobtrusively contribute to the repetition and consolidation of the material. Pupils involuntarily begin to discuss their views on acquired knowledge, which becomes an excellent exercise in eloquence, as well as an additional test for literacy.
Creative work as a unique activity of the student community
The free form of the task is able to help the most clamped and restrained members of the class to liberate themselves and let go of their imagination. The development of logical and imaginative thinking is only one of the many positive results that such work gives. The creative environment contributes to the cooperation of children, favorably affects relationships in the team. Many endowed with hidden talents get a chance to shine. Using the analysis of other people's works as an example, students understand that it is not necessary to judge creative impulses excessively and that criticism should be as constructive as possible. The most successful samples can be selected for the collection, which subsequently can be used as visual material. Interdisciplinary thinking develops very well through creative work. A story about the adventure of cellular organelles or a poem about the sides of a triangle will encourage the student to study both subjects with increased attention. And subsequently, improved academic performance and the result of creativity will become an occasion for pride and self-esteem.