21st-century education talks about having certain skills that both the teachers and the students need to acquire. One such skill is a creative skill. This skill helps to turn new and innovative ideas into reality. The conventional form of teaching-learning system focussed on the passive methods of teaching where the focus was to enhance learning by making the students read and rote learning instead of focussing on understanding and churning their creative brain cells. The concern for ifs, buts, and any alternative solution was not promoted.

Constructivist teaching, however, focuses on creating tools that enhance the creative skills of the students. It provides a platform to the students where there is minimal involvement of the teachers and they let the students visualize, ideate, articulate, express, interpret or apply new knowledge. A few of the characteristics of constructive teaching are as follows:

• the learner or the student is actively involved
• the activities that are chosen are student-friendly and interactive
• It facilitates an environment that promotes the students to be responsible and creative.

This approach has basically five steps: 

1. Engage- Here the teacher should let the student take the lead by letting them develop a curiosity for the concept and thinking about different ways through which they can understand the concept. The teacher, instead of directly providing the students with the answers, should give them the opportunity to explore all the options at their disposal to use their creative skills.
2. Explore- Here, like the name suggests, exploring the concepts are done and students try to find answers to the questions in divergent ways. One child can think in a particular way about the concepts while another child can think something else about the same concept. Therefore, diversity in the concepts is seen and can go beyond the boundaries of the classroom.
3. Explain- Post exploring diverse views on a particular concept, the next step is to explain what they explored to the class, skillfully and creatively. The teacher also gets involved here and guides the students to bring them back to the concept.
4. Elaborate- The teacher tries to explain the concept in an elaborative way, helping the students understand the concepts in both a practical and theoretical manner. It helps cement the understanding of the students regarding a particular concept.
5. Evaluate- the positive and negatives of a particular concept are explored along with the boundaries and dimensions of the same. 

Role-playing, hands-on activities, etc. are used by the teachers to promote constructivist teaching. Along with that, the teacher should try and promote simulations among students by linking the concepts to real-life examples. It promotes inclusive education by helping students explore complex topics actively. When students use their creative brain cells, it promotes critical thinking too. Using diverse ways of understanding a concept, not focussed on rote learning or bookish understanding, helps students concert themselves to learning, even more, making education more inclusive. This form of teaching helps attract students of all levels and makes them feel included.

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