CREATIVITY AND STEP BY STEP PEDAGOGY

This paper represents an establishing study regarding the identification of the pupils` creative potential on the following dimensions: fluidity, originality, elaboration, abstracting and opening. The study was realized within a class of 31 pupils, aged between 7 and 8 years old, 1st graders, the Step by Step alternative. The research method used was The Creative Thinking Test – by E.P. Torrance. After having analyzed the obtained results, we suggest a few working techniques with the pupils that would lead to the development of their creative availabilities.