As we talk about teaching creativity and developing creative thinking it is very important to understand the skills related to creativity. These are the skills that as any other skills can be thought and develop!!! These are the skills that you can learn how to incorporate in your lesson when you take the Workshop for Teaching Creativity.
Guilford introduced the first cognitive creativity skills in 1956 that were fluency: The ability to generate a lot of ideas, flexibility: the ability to generate diverse sets of ideas, elaboration: the ability to elaborate on a given idea and originality (the ability to generate one or more new ideas. Later Torrance, after extensive research suggested 18 skills that were important in Creative Learning and Teaching and are the ones used in this Torrance Incubation Model. These are (Torrance and Safter, 1999):
Guilford introduced the first cognitive creativity skills in 1956 that were fluency: The ability to generate a lot of ideas, flexibility: the ability to generate diverse sets of ideas, elaboration: the ability to elaborate on a given idea and originality (the ability to generate one or more new ideas. Later Torrance, after extensive research suggested 18 skills that were important in Creative Learning and Teaching and are the ones used in this Torrance Incubation Model. These are (Torrance and Safter, 1999):
Other authors and creativity researches have introduced additional creative thinking skills like Williams (1970) added curiosity, risk taking, complexity and imagination; Amabile (1996) added tolerance for ambiguity and intrinsic motivation, later with the introduction of the Thinking Skill Model, Puccio, Mance & Murdock (2011) introduced new skills, both cognitive and affective some of them are openness to novelty, avoiding premature closure and tolerance for risk taking.