Preliminary Analysis of the Student's Creative Thinking Skills in the Elementary School Teachers Education Study Program

摘要

Creativity is needed by elementary school teachers in designing learning that fosters thinking and creative attitude in students. Before being able to create an instructional strategy that encourages creative thinking and attitudes, should before becoming a teacher, students of elementary school teacher educational study program candidates need to be assessed for their creative thinking abilities because the learning patterns possessed by students show a mechanistic system, meaning learning is done if there is an assignment by the lecturer. This study aims to determine the ability of university students to think creatively to find patterns of instructional models that can foster creativity in students as potential elementary school teachers. This research was conducted in the Elementary School Teacher Education study program, Universitas Negeri Jakarta along 2019. Taking samples with purposeful sampling method namely 58 students. The research method used is qualitative with data collection instruments in the form of creativity tests. The results of the study showed that the low creative thinking ability possessed by students is caused by instructional and learning patterns both given by the lecturer and within students. The recommendations of this study present an instructional model that can foster or encourage creativity in students.