On Development Of Students' Creativity

The development of modern society, especially the emergence of the knowledge economy, poses a new requirement to education. It requires the education, especially the elementary education, to focus on the creativity of the students. However, when we reflect to the elementary education of our country, we will find that middle and primary school students have a relatively lower creativity. There is a great contradiction between the requirement of the time and the reality, which makes the task more and more essential and urgent to develop creativity.On the task of the creativity in elementary education, there are diverging points. Some hold on that elementary education could not develop creativity for students, neither is it necessary; others think that development of creativity is a kind of training to the thinking skill of the students. Both of them are the wrong cognition after wrong understanding of creativity. The creativity of students in elementary educational stage is the creativity in the sense of individual, and the importance of the development of creativity should be attached on the creativity of the whole. Meanwhile, creativity is a complex capability which consists of knowledge skill, thinking, as well as personality, and they interact with each other. The development of the capability is a process from low to high. Development of creativity in elementary stage is helpful for the development of higher standard creativity of students in future. Thus, not only that elementary education could develop the creativity for students, but also that should it attach more importance to the development of students' creativity. The responsibilities in creativity development that the elementary education should assume are making students master knowledge skills which are necessary for creating as much as possible, forming the characteristics which are beneficial for creating, and developing personalities which are helpful for creating.Creativity development should focus on teaching contents, teaching methods, and teaching assessment in the school teaching activities, which is decided by the main tasks of elementary education. Nevertheless, there are different views on the three. Some think that what are helpful for creativity development are activity curriculum, discovery study and authentic assessment. Subject curriculum, reception study and study achievement assessment in the old days not only are harmful for development of creativity, but also do block the way for students to create and innovate. Of course, others consider differently for the totally negating subject curriculum, reception study and study achievement assessment. This dissertation takes the divergence of the cognition as the key points, basing on the research of teaching practice and summarization of the practical experience, to express and settle the personal view points by analyzing and clarifying some cognitions. It points clearly on the teaching contents that subject curriculum is necessary for creativity developing rather than that it will baffle students on creativity development. But, single subject curriculum can create the phenomenon of "high marks, low ability". On school teaching, it should arrange activity curriculum. These two curriculums should join with each other, which is an advantage complementary on creativity development. On teaching method, reception study does not necessarily baffle students on creativity development; the teaching of subject curriculum is mainly reception study, but single subject curriculum is not helpful for students' creativity development; creativity development need discovery study, but mechanic discovery study is not helpful for creativity development. On teaching assessment, study achievement assessment is necessary for creativity development. Unscientific study achievement assessment is harmful for creativity development. We also need authentic assessment in creativity development, and creativity development needs the two combine with each other.The main points of the dissertation are: developing creativity is the responsibility of elementary education; creativity development should combine subject curriculum and activity curriculum; creativity development should combine reception study and discovery study; creativity development should combine study achievement assessment and authentic assessment. The dissertation, just from a new point, does a research of the starting point, but an end-point, of the creativity development of students in the elementary educational stage.