EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AS AN INCENTIVE FOR STUDENT CREATIVITY

Creative teaching and learning as a prospective and innovative approach represents a challenge for both teachers and students. The school should provide support for the development of students’ interests, abilities, and talents as well as incite participation in extracurricular activities. The subject of this study is the role of extracurricular activities as an incentive for student creativity. The main focus of this paper will be the extent to which extracurricular activities influence student creativity. The research relies upon polling and the descriptive analytical method and uses a survey sheet for students as the main instrument. The data is then processed through quantitative analysis. The data is first gathered and sorted then represented in a chart and evaluated. Extracurricular activities have a great impact on the development of children’s interests, abilities and creativity which in turn help to overcome the limitations of the obligatory curriculum. Therefore, teachers should strengthen their competence and carry out focused extracurricular activities, especially when it comes to activities that are not in the scope of their formal education.