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STRATEGIES: HOW TO PROMOTE CREATIVITY
As models, nurturers, resources of children’s creativity, parents and educators help facilitate 
creative potential by respecting and encouraging elements that are conducive to the development 
of creativity in their homes and classrooms. Young children that are exposed to more examples 
of art, mathematics, history, language, physical education, science, music, nature will develop 
the knowledge base to be able to recombine ideas within any domain to produce novel and 

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appropriate products. Although there are domains with only one correct answer to a question, 
most domains allow for multiple interpretations and therefore, students need to learn to defend 
why they have made specific responses to questions, thus teaching critical thinking at an early 
age. 
To nurture children’s creativity in the home, parents need to work with all members of 
the family to discuss egalitarian and equitable exchanges of ideas and behaviors. Although some 
children do learn to be highly creative within restrictive environments, most children learn best 
with support and guidance. Using AI as a strategy of finding the strengths in every family 
member and highlighting them without focusing on the weaknesses of family members will 
enforce positive behavior and attitudes such as respect, trust and love. Support from loved ones 
helps children to be resilient and persevering. Both of these traits are necessary to promote 
creative behavior. 
The creative educator is critical in the development of childhood creativity. Teachers 
must understand multiculturalism, gender and gender identity, psychological, cognitive, and 
physical development to be able to recognize the incredible variability and ability within each 
classroom. With that variability, responsibility to reach each child where they are is every 
teacher’s challenge. In addition to the teacher, the classroom culture influences the curriculum, 
and prepares children for future creativity by promoting questioning and risk-taking, creative 
assessments, curiosity and open-endedness, collaboration and teamwork and activities that 
highlight children's creative potential such as storytelling and dramatic play. The creativity of the 
educator is highly correlated with student creativity. The creative teacher welcomes parents into 
their classrooms, encourages friendships, and polices bullying and discrimination and designs 

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cross-curricular lesson plans that not only meet standards, but are exciting and fun. Creative 
instructors are more likely to model and encourage creativity in their students. 
Further strategies for increasing childhood creativity focus on extracurricular activities. 
Often, teachers are not able to devote ample time for young children to learn to play a musical 
instrument, develop physical agility and strength through dance or athletics. As children are 
exposed to activities that they are curious and interested in, they develop perseverance to develop 
skill and confidence in an activity. The ability to transfer skills of success increase the 
probability that the child will be creative in the future. 
WHAT WORKS: 
Creativity has been a research topic of interest for the past 60 years, yet no intervention or 
methodology has been replicated over three times.