Strategies for realizing the creative potential of student youth (gender aspect)

The article reveals strategies for realizing the creative potential of school youth in the gender dimension. Indicators characterizing the ability of schoolchildren to be creative and constituting their creative potential have been singled out. Such indicators of the creative potential of students include novelty, originality of the solution and independence. It is emphasized that in relation to this issue, the creative potential of schoolchildren is the ability to define and formulate a problem, generate new ideas and carry out their selection, propose and justify original solutions to problems, performing research with a high degree of independence. Two main trends are observed in the strategy of applying criteria for evaluating the ability of schoolchildren to creative activity: to build and use a single-criterion evaluation system and to the complex use of various criteria, taking into account the individual weight of each criterion in a specific situation. We propose to use the last approach in the comprehensive assessment of the creative potential of student youth engaged in creative activities. Key words: student youth, creative potential, strategies for realizing creative potential, giftedness, gender.