CREATIVE TEACHERS AND TEACHING CREATIVITY: AN EFFORT IN LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW NORMAL ERA

The future of the nation is largely determined by the optimal role of teachers in educating children to become creative human beings in solving increasingly complex national problems. The existence of teachers as professional educators has a moral responsibility in developing children’s personalities, including improving the quality of students’ creativity. For this reason, professional educators need to first understand and be skilled at developing the creativity of students in the learning process. Therefore, this paper tries to explain how to become a creative desert to create creative children needed to achieve 21st century skills. The policy of “the new normal” is based on changing behavior or habits. The author realizes that changing behavior is strongly influenced by changes in thoughts and attitudes which in practice is not an easy job, apart from the result that a person’s thoughts and attitudes have been trapped by the old paradigm, it is also easy for changed thoughts, attitudes and behaviors to relapse. Therefore change requires active stretching