Which of the following either promote or inhibit creative behaviour?

OCR - Education module - A level Psychology

  1. Teach children to value their creative thinking
  2. Stick to teaching facts and nothing else
  3. Testing is not of over-riding importance
  4. Make available resources for working out ideas
  5. Teachers should stick to tried and trusted methods
  6. Force children to think in a set pattern
  7. Display wall charts of facts
  8. Encourage children to criticise, but the teacher can provide the alternative solutions
  9. Create "thorns in the flesh" (that is awareness of problems)
  10. Value the right answer
  11. Encourage the acquisition of knowledge in a variety of fields
  12. Allow a certain amount of playfulness
  13. Provide for active and quiet periods
  14. Beware of forcing a set pattern
  15. Develop adventurous teachers
  16. Value creative thinking
  17. Give information about the creative process
  18. Teach children to respect famous artists and musicians
  19. Make children more sensitive to environmental stimuli
  20. Encourage the habit of working out the full implications of ideas
  21. Tell the student what opinions they should have
  22. Develop tolerance of new ideas
  23. Insist on a quest for certainty
  24. Teachers should be authoritarian in an authoritarian environment
  25. Force children to think in a set pattern
  26. Encourage manipulation of objects and ideas
  27. Teacher should not be too strict
  28. Allow children to go "off at a tangent"
  29. Teacher should be flexible
  30. Develop a creative classroom atmosphere
  31. The teacher should have a rigid personality
  32. Teach skills for avoiding peer sanctions
  33. Make everything clear and easy to understand
  34. Do not tolerate playful attitudes
  35. Encourage abstract thought
  36. Dispel the sense of awe of masterpieces
  37. Encourage self-initiated learning
  38. Class must work hard all of the time
  39. It is important to ridicule and be sarcastic about 'incorrect' answers
  40. Encourage children to think about the subject being taught and no other subject
  41. The teacher should respect his or her students
  42. Teach children to value the right answer
  43. Encourage children to be individuals and to question the crowd
  44. Allow the possibility for a solution to be a compromise between two opposing views
  45. Create necessities for creative thinking
  46. Children must do only what the teacher tells them
  47. The teacher should be hostile toward divergent personalities
  48. Teachers should provide all of the answers
  49. Once an answer has been found students should move on quickly to the next question
  50. Teachers should provide the necessary material and nothing extra
  51. The teacher should emphasise evaluation
  52. Make children aware of what is socially accepted
  53. Develop constructive criticism - not just criticism
  54. Make students conform
  55. Stick to accepted ideas and values
  56. Success is of over-riding importance
  57. Teach children to concentrate by ignoring the environment around them
  58. Emphasise success

Answers

See Lefrançois 8th Edition of Psychology for Teaching (Published by Wadsworth in 1994). Page 220.
Or use your own creative judgement!

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