THE TEACHER'S POSITION IN PROMOTING CREATIVITY.

Erica Mcwilliam in her video " the rewards of mental effort at mind and its potential 2011,
talks about the effect of over applause to learners. A quick glance at the literacy e-shift.
we as teachers are shifting from thinking before writing to thinking while/after writing.
Every other time we applause trainees of what ever little they do and have even reached the extent of publishing them in news papers, and therefore have shifting their minds from what they ought to be in future to what we want as teachers as a matter of politics and a publicity. I think i agree partly with Erica, the trainees themselves  should be happy to display their potential than us displaying their strengths whilst we some times take cover of their weaknesses.

We have always been observed protecting the trainees that do not perform very well but we should have increased the frequency of the skills acquisition to raise masterly in them. The art of practice has decreased in the teachers and therefore we should not keep on saying wonderful, fabulous and  excellent even when the trainee has given a story crammed from a text book.

The issue of boosting morale however should not be replaced with command, but we should go ahead to support them, explain to them their weaknesses. In practice each one needed to be thanked for any effort whatsoever made any time.

But teachers should not be excited looking at simple results just on calculating simple equations but also the extra mile how the learner has integrated it in real life experience.

Erica emphasizes the application of the lower levels of knowledge, synthesized to help the community and not praising them on little scores that would not give them the reason to accept change to critical thinking.
Niwamanya Gilbert
Instructor
Nakawa Vocational Training Institute-Uganda.