A small scale study was undertaken to explore classroom provisions to enhance creative thinking. Such provisions included modification of the classroom environment and subject material, processes, specific strategies and teaching models. The paper questions whether today's teachers are providing these opportunities and suggests reasons why creative thinking is not being promoted in our schools for all children but in particular the creatively talented child. The literature reveals that teachers need to become aware and interested in teaching strategies to encourage creative thinking in the classroom. Using results from this study and suggestions from the literature the research sought to determine if the attitudes of teachers and children today towards creative thinking are developing or static. While teachers are working without definitions of creativity and with limited training as a whole, their attitudes seemed to be slowly developing in favour of creative thinking. Children, while developing an awareness of creativity, are perhaps not keeping pace with what is required for our nation's development.
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