Education promotes creative thinking

Many people just think they are not creative. However many people are born with an element of creativity in them but over time it is not utilised and becomes redundant. However, the combination of encouraging teachers and willing parents it is possible to encourage your child to not only maintain but develop a create thought pattern as they grow up. This article highlights 6 steps to creative thinking and how to encourage it in your child.

1. Build on any opportunities
Set a well designed plan and make the most of any opportunity that your child shows a creative spark. Encourage them to do well and praise them when they show you their work. Be careful not to smother them as it may become too over bearing.
2. Small changes = big difference
Giving your child the chance to be creative is great but giving them options and allowing them to make choices can be an invaluable way to allow them think along different trains of thought.
3. Set targets
give your child a some clear objectives of what you them to achieve. Limiting their choice of materials will also encourage them to become a little move inventive with the ideas.
4. Set them a task with out a clear outcome
This will enable them to discover that all questions can't be answered with a right or wrong answer.
5. Let the children drive you
Their ideas might be a little unconventional but allow them to go with it and see where it takes them. You will be surprised at how capable they are at lateral thinking.
6. Questions
Encourage your child not only to find answers for the questions but to question the answers. This should bring about a thirst for knowledge and get them exposed to more information.

Exploring as many avenues as possible is the key to your childs development. You may even find that this not only opens their creativity but their thirst for knowledge, and might see them embarking on a college education and maybe even a university education.

This article was written by Tom Sangers on behalf of Northampton College who offer Colleges in Northampton.