By Raed and Tan

1. Presented by:
Raed Mohammad (P-PM 0334/12)
Tan Chui Kiang (P-PM 0224/12)

2. Promoting Creative
Thinking Through
Classroom
Activities
Target group: USM Postgraduate School Teachers

3. Task 1
What are your
expectations from this
workshop?

4. Expected Outcomes:
Understand the concept of creative thinking
Identify the importance of creative thinking
Strategies in promoting creative thinking
I am probably
the greatest
thinker since
Socrates !

5. Do You Agree?
Why is
imagination
so
important?

8. What is Creative Thinking?

9. What goes under creative thinking?
 Looking at an ordinary object or situation in a
different way.
 Generate new original ideas.
 Using different perspective in thinking.
 Analyzing the idea by providing additional
information.
 Thinking outside the box.
 Use the right hemisphere of the brain.

10. Characteristics of Creative Thinkers
Adventurous
Ask many questions
Works alone on difficult task
Good in guessing
Does not like routines
Never give up
Wide imagination
Interested in weird things
Curious

11. Why Creative Thinking?
Think independently
Open to new ideas
Apply their imaginations
Discover new and better ways to solve
problems
Enhances the process of learning
Contribute to a better society

13. Task 2
In your group, give a
definition of creative
thinking and 3
characteristics of a
creative thinker

14. 1. Hands-on materials
 students should have ample opportunity to
physically manipulate objects
How to develop Creative Thinking?

15. 2. Seating
Matching seating to classroom is advised in
this way:
 lecture - individual desks (in rows)
 creating/sharing - small round tables
 communicating - one big table

16. 3. Lighting and colour

17. Strategies in Promoting Creative
Thinking
 Brainstorming
- define an issue, diagnose a problem, or possible
solutions and resistance to proposed solutions.
 Imagination
- Using ‘What-if’ questions and what an object
uses for.
 Problem Solving
- Many solutions for 1 problem.

18. Role Play
Free Association
Observation
Exercise your judgement

19. Based on your teaching
experience, share with
your group members by
providing 2 examples on
how to promote creative
thinking strategies.
Task 3

20. Let’s Test
Your
Creativity

21. Activity 1

22. How to turn Coin Pyramid upside
down in three moves

24. Activity 2

25. How can you draw 4 straight lines
to connect the 9 dots without
lifting your pencil from the paper?

27. Activity 3

28. Read aloud the following colours
as fast as you can:

29. Now quickly read aloud the colours of the following
words ...
not the words themselves, but the colours in which the
words are shown:
red green
blue orange
black blue
yellow gray
red pink

30. Activity 4

31. How to Pass Your Body Through a
Sheet of A4 Paper?

33. Any Questions?

34. It’s time to
be creative!