How to Stimulate Creative Thinking

1. Teachers should encourage students to make inferences. 2. Teachers should encourage them to think intuitively. 3. Teachers use inquiry discovery teaching techniques.

Three Types of Inferences Have Creative Potentials

1.Elaboration of characteristics, categories or concepts 2.Elaboration of causality 3.Elaboration of background information

Intuitive Thinking
It is a process that have been discourage because traditional teaching relies on facts and rote.

Principles for Developing Creativity in Class & for Enhancing Students Creative Processes (Torrance) 1. Make students more sensitive to their environment. 2. Encourage manipulation of objects and ideas. 3.Develop tolerance toward new ideas. 4.Resist one acceptable answer or set pattern. 5.Teach skills for avoiding peer sanctions.

6. Encourage individualized learning. 7.Make available different resources for working ideas. 8.Encourage the habit of working out the full implication of ideas. 9.Integrate knowledge in variety of fields. 10.Develop adventure and spirit in the classroom.