Formation of creativity in higher education students

In modern conditions of rapid change, creativity is gaining special importance as a key factor of success in various fields. The higher education system must meet these challenges, helping students not only master professional knowledge, but also develop creative thinking, the ability to solve problems in a non-standard way and generate innovative ideas. Cultivating creativity in the process of studying in universities is becoming extremely important, because employers today expect young specialists not only to have professional competence, but also flexibility, adaptability and the ability to innovate. The purpose of the study is to study the features of the formation of creativity in higher education students and to determine the exercises that are most common in the educational process. The following methods were used in the study: analysis, generalization, systematization, questionnaire. It is determined that the development of creativity contributes to the development of initiative, the formation of one's own views and beliefs, as well as the upbringing of a sense of responsibility, which are extremely necessary among the qualities for a future specialist. The stages of the process of developing professional skills and creative abilities in students during their studies at the university are as follows: reproductive, reproductive-creative, creative-reproductive, creative. Different approaches to the conditions for the formation of creativity in students of higher education are characterized. Conditions are determined by the following groups: abilities and inclinations as a complex of socio-psychological and physiological qualities of the individual that make it suitable for a certain creative activity; a combination of opposite psychological qualities, the individual dynamics of their manifestation; optimal organizational conditions that contribute to creative productivity. Also, the conditions are determined in accordance with the participants in the educational process, which include the training of teachers, the active involvement of students in participating in creative projects and the modeling of educational situations using behavioral, cognitive and value criteria. Interactive technologies that will contribute to the development of creativity in students by groups are analyzed: cooperative learning, collective-group learning, situational modeling technologies. The results of a survey of students of a higher education institution on the exercises that are most often used by teachers in the educational process to form creativity are presented.