Inventiveness

Is creativity an important skill for the 21st century? I feel that we should encourage our students and children to think outside the box every single day! As the years go on they will have to deal with much more than we ever had to, and this will require many different types of thinking and many more new and fresh ideas. Many forget to encourage creativity. We should always encourage it, teach it, and reward it. Ways to bring about creativity in a classroom setting is just to have many different activities or many different ways of going about a certain thing. You can also challenge the students to come up with even more ideas for that certain topic to expand even more.