Lesson 8: HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT- BASED PROJECTS

Creativity is a person’s imagination and ingenuity. Whenever a teacher says, I would like you to have this project and please be creative. What comes up to the minds of the students? creative? flowers? colors? it must be different from my other classmates? Nowadays, when a teacher asks a certain project to the students, the students will never be panic. I remember a classmate of mine said, “Project?What? Ahh, everything is all over the net, why get scared little rats?” It is true indeed. What we usually do not have in the old days are already in our online resources. What we got to do is just type a key word of a particular topic we need and there you go, you can see what you need. There are people whom we quoted as “not that creative.” These people are being creative in their own little ways. We have different operational definition of creativity and we have our individual standards of such word. In creativity projects, what we deal with that is how the student would be able to express himself in the certain project. When you divide the class and end up into small groups you help them encounter different personalities and variety of ways of thinking. Let us say we have given creativity projects to each group, how will the teacher know, who did best and who is more creative member in the group? They must be rated individually and as a group.