FOSTERING STUDENT CREATIVITY USING BRAIN-BASED LEARNING

The right kind of education, proper care and provision of opportunities for creative expression inspires, stimulates and sharpens the creative mind. Good teachers concerned with optimizing student achievement are always exploring different means to do so. Recent innovations in the field of science have allowed an unprecedented look into the way the brain works. The new findings into the working of the brain & its impact on learning have the potential to revolutionize teaching and learning. Brain research has provided new knowledge about the many different ways and situations that can be created for optimum learning. Brain-Based learning has resulted from the educators and researchers applying the the findings of brain-research to better teaching practises and foster creativity. Brain-Based Learning provides the much needed stimulation and nourishment to nurture creativity. Most creative talent, unless it is given proper training, education and opportunities for expressions is wasted. Each child possesses some creative ability and it is for the teachers and parents alike to realize the need of creating an environment conducive to cater to the creative ability of the child. Brain-Based Learning emphasizes on creating a relaxed environment and providing the students with stimulating and innovative experiences, challenging techniques of learning which involve all the bodily senses that allows them to hypothesize, predict, pose questions, research, investigate, imagine, invent, link old knowledge to the present & form their original concepts.