Synectics is structured group activity in which students learn to think creatively and to solve problems through the use of analogies and metaphor’. In simple words, it refers to a creative problem-solving process where students perceive problems and solve problems in a fun and interesting way. It allows learners to ‘develop creative insight and deeper understanding of a topic by looking at it from a variety of perspectives Synectics has four main assumptions that are:
1) Creativity is crucial in our daily lives
2) Creativity can be described and taught
3) Creative invention in all domains or disciplines possesses the same underlying intellectual principles.
4) Creativity is not an intensely personal experience.
Key terms and concepts pertaining to model
The key term pertaining this model is creativity since ‘the synectics strategy strongly believes in the importance of creativity’.It emphasizes of learners becoming creative in terms of inventing new ways in viewing problems and expressing themselves when dealing with problems leading to solving problems differently. In short this model opens room doors for learners to think out of the box during the journey of seeking creative new ideas or solutions. There three concepts pertaining to this model that are ‘personal analogy’, ‘direct analogy’ and ‘compressed conflict’.
Personal analogy initiate ‘students to think about what it would feel like to be the chosen object and to tell why they have that particular feeling’. It means that students assume they are a certain object or they are at a certain situation and express their feeling as they become a part of it. However, direct analogy is all about making comparison between two concepts or objects as learners try to view a problem from various new angels without self involvement. Lastly compressed conflict or metaphor enables learners to do contradictions between words and the greater the contradictions the more creative students ideas and solution will be.
In conclusion I talked about this model because it highlights creativity in learning and the is closely connected to the websites that I am going to share with teachers.
This website is an amazing website for teachers because they have a lot of things that teachers can use to teach ALL KINDS OF SUBJECTS NOT ONLY ENGLISH. They even have printable worksheets,lesson plans and printable workbooks.
- This website is suitable for all students from Pre school, Kindergarten,1th grade-5thgrade.
- A very useful website for teachers teaching Remove classes English.
The websites are : Education.com and Superteacherworksheets.
This is the link for the 1 website :https://www.education.com/resources/
This is the link for the 2 website:https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/full-social-studies.html
The reason why I included the website links so that teachers can easily copy and paste and identify the correct sources because they are many other websites similiar to the above.
I love both these websites because they uphold the creativity model as in everything they cater for learners are very creative and not designed in a traditional outline type. I always use this website materials with my weak and remove students and they enjoyed and they even understand better.
picture reference Education.com
I love both these websites because they uphold the creativity model as in everything they cater for learners are very creative and not designed in a traditional outline type. I always use this website materials with my weak and remove students and they enjoyed and they even understand better.
Hopefully it is also useful for teachers.
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