The Teacher’s Creativity in Fostering Active Learning in Students
The Teacher’s Creativity in Fostering Active Learning in Students

Summary/Abstract: The paper highlights the paradigms and results of recent research demonstrating the role of teacher creativity in fostering active learning in students. The first chapter highlights the need to use active and stimulating teaching methods to develop skills required for professional and social standards at European level, such as the ability to learn how to learn and the ability to manage the tension between innovation and continuity. Interactive teaching develops critical thinking skills and creative thinking that will generate self-management skills for the individual's life. The second chapter defines creativity, facilitators and inhibitors of creativity, creative didactic styles. Research that shows the role of teacher's creativity in developing active learning skills in students is presented. The paper also emphasizes the importance of active learning in the development of social competencies necessary for young people: empathy, assertiveness, problem solving, prosocial and civic behavior.

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