Stimulating Students’ Creativity in MTM and ELTM Classes: Content Choice and Teacher Creativity

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to highlight different means of stimulating creativity with students attending English Language Teaching and Mathematics Teaching Methodology courses and seminars. What is primarily analyzed, exemplified, and compared is the cultivation of creativity relative to the scientific content taught in the classes under discussion, by means of the creativity of the teacher seen as a key factor in stimulating students’ creativity in nowadays challenging teaching context. The conclusions invite to perspectivization and broaden the view over such a complex concept as student creativity.