Teacher's Creativity As the Condition of Development of Creativity of Children of Pre-School Age
The actualization of the creative imagination is considered as one of the key problems of developing preschool education. The purpose of the study was to identify the features of the development of creative imagination, as the basis for designing individual educational routes for children of senior preschool age. The sample consisted of children of the senior preschool age of preschool education organizations of Irkutsk — 45 children. In the study standardized methods were used: V. Sinelnikova, V. Kudryavtseva under the title "How to save the hare", as well as the technique of E. Tunik "Consequences of situations", O.M. Dyachenko "Finish drawing of figures". The results of empirical research have shown the prevalence of medium and low levels of development of creative imagination. Low level of creative imagination was revealed in 40% of children, average in 44% and high in 16%. Characteristic features of the creative imagination of senior preschoolers are: insufficient detail of images, a small productivity of ideas, difficulties in solving problem situations, lack of independence in the implementation of ideas. The article discusses the revealed tendencies in the development of the imagination of modern children, which differ somewhat from the data previously presented in the psychological literature. An effective means of developing the skills of preschool children to overcome problem situations and resolve them, as well as the ability to anticipate the consequences of the situation on the basis of its recreation and imagination is to create conditions for story-role games in groups. According to the research, it turned out that the availability of gaming equipment reaches just over half of the recommended list of gaming equipment in groups. The longevity of the environment, we believe, is also a factor of the scarcity of the development of creative imagination, as the highest mental function in preschool childhood.