User:Apeksha Shalin Victor/scamper

Very frequently, adults come across instances where they try and make the students ready for the real world and somewhere lose out on developing the creative thinking of the students in a classroom. .Aiming to make classroom a more interactive section where pupils learn more than just the bookish knowledge ,SCAMPER is an acronym that provides a structured way of assisting the students to think out of the box and enhance their knowledge. SCAMPER was first proposed by Alex Osborne in 1953,and was further developed by Bob Elerle in 1971 in his book, SCAMPER:Games for Imagination Development. SCAMPER is more of an activity based thinking process,which can be performed by Cooperative Learning. Here the teacher assists the students in choosing a particular idea, topic or concept and help them to further develop on it through a structured process.After choosing the idea, the students are given a tale where they perform activity step by step. First step includes SUBSTITUTE(S). Here the pupil has to ponder on the fact that which idea or concept can be equivalent to the present topic. Second step includes COMBINE(C) where the pupil elaborates more ideas and opinions to the thread of the current topic. Next step would be to ADJUST(A) where the pupil think of different ways to construct the topic in a more flexible and adjusted material.MODIFY (M) comes out to be the next step of this activity where the pupil thinks of bringing out some creative changes to the current topic. PUT TO OTHER USES (P) stands out to be the next step of this activity where the pupil thinks about all the possible scenarios and situations where this topic can be used. In the next step the pupil ELIMINATES (E) all the ideas or elements from the topic which is not required or considered to be not making sense by the pupil. The last step is the REVERSE,REARRANGE(R) where the pupil thinks on giving birth to a new concept from the present concept.Hence, SCAMPER as a teaching strategy helps the students to analyse the knowledge in it's creative form and helps the teacher to make teaching creative and interesting.

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