Encouraging creativity in primary education

U suvremenom svijetu koji se neprestano razvija za tradicionalnu školu više nema mjesta. Iako se kritike često upućuju upravo tradicionalnom stilu poučavanja, još uvijek nismo svjedoci škola u kojima je zaživio suvremeni stil poučavanja. Poštujući „tradiciju“ zanemarujemo, nažalost, potrebe djece. U tendenciji stvaranja suvremenih škola trebamo se okrenuti razvijanju i poticanju važne osobine čovjeka – kreativnosti. U kreativnosti leži ključ daljnjeg napretka i upravo je zato važno poticati ju još od doba djetinjstva. Tu bitnu ulogu zauzimaju škole i njezini učitelji koji trebaju stvoriti ugodno razredno ozračje i pružiti svojim učenicima punu slobodu izražavanja. Takve će škole imati zadovoljne učenike koji će rado dolaziti u školu, hrabre u izražavanju svojih ideja i mišljenja, originalne, pune samopouzdanja. Samo takve škole odgojit će djecu koja će čovječanstvo voditi k boljoj budućnosti. Cilj akcijskog istraživanja Poticanje kreativnosti u razrednoj nastavi bio je pružiti učenicima prikladno i ugodno ozračje te slobodu izražavanja, pri tome potičući njihovu kreativnost provođenjem različitih kreativnih aktivnosti i tehnika kreativnog mišljenja u sklopu svih nastavnih predmeta. Iako sam se susrela s mnoštvom problema u osmišljanju, organizaciji i provedbi aktivnosti, kao i procesom oslobađanja učeničkog mišljenja, ipak sam učenike uspjela navesti na put kreativnosti. Tako organizirana nastava osim što je polučila uspjehom na području razvoja kreativnosti, donijela je u učionicu zabavu i opće zadovoljstvo učenika.In the modern world which is constantly evolving, there is no place for the traditional school. Though the critics are often pointed on the traditional way of teaching, we are still not the witness of a school in which the modern way of teaching has come to life. Respecting „the tradition“ we are ignoring, unfortunately, needs of our children. In the tendency of making modern schools, we have to turn to development and fostering of important human characteristic - creativity. In creativity lies the key of the future progress and because of that it is important to encourage creativity from childhood. The important part of it are the schools and it's teachers who must build a pleasant classroom atmosphere and provide its students full freedom of expression. That kind of schools will have satisfied students which will gladly come to school, be brave in expressing their ideas and opinions, genuine, full of confidence. Only that kind of schools will raise up children who will lead the humanity to the better future. The main goal of this action research Encouraging creativity in primary education was to offer the students convenient and comfortable atmosphere and the freedom of expression, thereby encouraging their creativity conducting all kind of creative activities and creative thinking techniques, within all the school subjects. Although I met with all kind of problems in devising, organization and implementation of activities, also with the release process of student thinking, I manage to lead the students to the path of creativity. That kind of organized schooling, except it taught with success on the field of creativity development, it brought fun and general satisfaction in the classroom among the students