Creative thinking as the key to the successful development of the personality of junior schoolchildren

This article discusses different points of view on the problem of creative thinking of the younger students. The result of the development of this kind of thinking is the ability of each student to discover their talents, realize their creative potential. The author shares her experience and writes about the techniques and methods of creative thinking development, talks about solutions to non-standard tasks using an original approach based on finding innovative solutions to difficult problems.

Creativity, creative tasks, Cognitive activity, problem situation, сreative thinking, synthesis of knowledge, the zone of proximal development, the original method, associative thinking.