ABSTRACT
Students will not think creatively unless they are confronted with challenging tasks in a supportive environment. Teacher’s need to recognize the importance of incorporating creative thinking into all areas of the curriculum. An emphasis on creative thinking skills in the classroom necessitates providing students with open-ended assignments and encouragement as they search for new answers. Unlike typical textbook questions that have a given right answer, creative questioning and thinking assumes that there may not be one right answer, but many possibilities. Educators are faced with the awesome challenge of preparing students for what they might encounter in the future. Preparation for the future requires that children are prepared with more than the one-solution process, more than the right-answer, convergent thinking required by many learning activities in our classrooms.
