The new English curriculum criteria for high schools has clearly stated that it’s a must to develop students’ creative abilities in English teaching. So as to keep up with the steps of our times, Through education practice and research of cultivating students’ creativity in English teaching, this thesis based on the factors, principles and methods of innovation education helps me learn how to develop students’ exploratory spirits in English learning, how to cultivate the strong desires of finding new things and mastering new methods ,and how to foster the abilities including solving problems creatively by using existing knowledge. This thesis mainly consists of five parts: Besides the first two parts——the introduction and literature review here, part 3 introduces creativity briefly, including its definition, relationship with some aspects including knowledge, intelligence and personality, characteristics and related factors. Part 4 presents the basic principles about cultivating creativity and the problems have been encountered and relevant countermeasures. Part 5 analyses the methods of cultivating students’ creativity in English teaching. The last two parts are the emphases of thesis. I think there is strong practical significance within developing students’ creativity. This thesis studies how to develop students’ creativity and it’s also meaningful to explore the basic principles and methods of developing students’ creativity.