ABSTRACT
Creativity requires knowledge bases in both the disciplines and creative thinking strategies, creative thinking habits, and an environment in which creativity can thrive. A creativity-friendly classroom provides a safe space for risk taking and organizational structures that support intrinsic motivation. In brief, a creativity-friendly classroom uses varied and flexible teaching methods, provides experiences with choice, offers informational feedback in assessment, encourages self-assessment, uses rewards thoughtfully, teaches both cooperation and independence, and promotes questioning and experimentation. In school, the question formulation technique (QFT) serves to support student engagement and learning by having them generate questions around a Question Focus provided by the teacher. This chapter examines the questions and strategies that underlie substitute, combine, adapt, meanings, put, eliminate and rearrange (SCAMPER) and how they may be used to facilitate divergent thinking. Divergent-thinking activities were associated with higher-quality creative products in storytelling, collage making, and poetry writing for second-grade students.
