( Indonesian Dictionary, creativity comes from the word "creative" which means to have creativity, have the ability to create, have (creativity) creativity, work that desires intelligence and imagination. "Creativity" is the ability to create, creativity, creativity, creativity, which is essentially the result of hard work. In another sense, creativity is a creativity that is based on the motive or impulse of the heart (intention) that manifests on the will to create something. As Semiawan says, that creativity is "the ability to create a new product, it could be a combination, and the elements already existed.
The above understanding shows that creativity is the willingness to create new combinations, or to see combinations of elements, data or pre-existing results. Thus, it can be said that creativity shows attempts to concoct things from existing or unfamiliar objects to something new. That is why, creativity is not something independent or not merely the advantages possessed by a person, but part of the fruit of the business.
In addition, some see that creativity is not a product of inspiration, but a result of persistent effort and steady improvement. Creativity does not require great intelligence, because creativity is only the result of a focused imagination, active work, and steady improvement as a result of one's efforts in realizing his ideas. Utami Munandar says, "creativity (creative thinking or divergent) is the ability based on available data or information, finding many things that reflect fluency, flexibility, and orsinilitas in thinking, and the ability to elaborate (develop, enrich, detail) an idea .
Creativity, then, is the ability to discover new ways to solve problems related to science, literature and other arts, which are completely new to the person, although for others it is not so strange. In other words, creativity is not something that has never been known before but rather that the product of creativity is something new for certain people or the world in general, including himself.
By that, all the results of efforts obtained by a person in an effort to create and develop something that has been there before by mixing and mixing things from all objects both known and unknown to others or himself can be categorized as a creativity.
Creativity is closely related to aspects; (a) intelligence, (b) usefulness, (c) its novelty, (d) process, (e) the social environment as the solution of a problem. As a problem-solving, James R. Evans states six creative problem-solving steps:
Discovery of chaos, namely awareness of challenges, concerns, and opportunities in the system and selecting important goals.
Find the facts, that is, gather as much information as possible to understand the chaos.
The discovery of the problem, namely the formulation of a set of current conditions, symptoms, causes, and events that engulf a set of problems.
The discovery of ideas, namely the discovery of appropriate techniques to overcome the problem.
The discovery of completion, ie the use of techniques to obtain the results of problem solving.
Invention of acceptance, ie formulation of action plan to implement problem solving result.
The position of the teacher who is tugaas professional execution, and includes a position attached to the executor of duty / person. That is why, in the society of a teacher wherever they are, they are always called "Teacher"
Creative teachers are usually more responsive to the idea of renewing education and teaching in schools. It occupies a powerful change agent and involves in every government effort to improve the quality of education and teaching. Creative and innovative teachers, must always be responsive to the idea of renewing education and teaching in schools, and have a positive impact on the implementation of education toward improvement and improvement. He has a full sense of responsibility in searching for breakthroughs breaking all failures, predicting ways of healing and at the same time creating new things untouched by other teachers and schools. The breadth of insight for creativity and innovative teachers is not only at the time of transferring learning in the school's internal environments, but more global.
The position of teachers in the field of humanity can not be separated from the expectations of the community to be able to educate his son to be the best, and able to transfer his knowledge to the prosperity of the crowd. Even the teacher is essentially a strategic component in determining the nation's advance movement. The existence of teachers is a factor of sine quanon condisio that can not be replaced by any component in the life of the nation since the first, especially in this contemporary era.
The more accurately the teachers implement their creativity, the more assured, created, and terbinanya readiness and reliability of someone as human development. In other words, the future portraits and faces of the nation are reflected in the self-portraits of today's teachers, and the advancement of the dynamics of the nation's life is directly proportional to the image of teachers in the midst of society.
Through the process of creativity step by step, then basically a teacher is required to prepare various forms of learning programs, including; making learning tools, determining learning methods based on the material presented, and no less important is the management of learning media to facilitate students' understanding of the subject matter and the achievement of objectives that have been formulated.
Teacher's creativity can be divided into two types, namely:
Aptitude
Aptitude type creativity has closeness to cognition and thought processes. Creative thinking is a process of creativity. Therefore, in thinking it means empowering cognition to discover something new or unfamiliar for it to know.
Thinking of creativity is a metaphorical-analogous thinking, which, according to Jalaluddin Rahmat, quotes MacKinnon's words, it must meet three important requirements: involving new responses or ideas, can solve the problem realistically, and have an original instinctual defense, with five stages: orientation, preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Schawatz in his book Reni Akbar Hawadi added that thinking creativity is finding a better new way to do everything.
Thus, as creative thinking, this type of aptitude creativity is nothing but ideas or ideas to discover new or new ways of solving a problem that arises as a result of creative thinking. Or in other words, trying to produce something new through the new incorporation of elements already in one's mind through a process, the process of thinking.
Non aptitude
Non-aptitude type creativity is more related to attitudes and feelings, in addition to cognitive abilities. Therefore, this type of creativity is known as affective creativity or action. Munandar asserted, productively
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