Encouraging Creative Thinking - ERASMUS+ course
Course description
The course is structured into 11 training modules, each of which focuses upon a particular area related to creative thinking and its development in education. Each module incorporates both the current theory of creativity in psychology and cognitive science, and its application for teachers of all subjects through innovative teaching methods. The course provides a platform for development of teaching materials and tools as well as for discussions, reflection and feedback. The teachers will get hands-on experience with activities that develop critical and creative thinking.
Objectives
Modules
Trainees will be given soft and hard copies of all lesson materials, which they can review at their leisure in addition to presenting them to their colleagues at their own organizations to generate interest in 21st-century teaching methods with creative thinking. In addition, a mailing list of participants will be created in order to exchange ideas/experiences.
Course description
The course is structured into 11 training modules, each of which focuses upon a particular area related to creative thinking and its development in education. Each module incorporates both the current theory of creativity in psychology and cognitive science, and its application for teachers of all subjects through innovative teaching methods. The course provides a platform for development of teaching materials and tools as well as for discussions, reflection and feedback. The teachers will get hands-on experience with activities that develop critical and creative thinking.
Objectives
- Improving creative thinking skills of both teachers and their students.
- Developing tools and techniques for innovative problem solving.
- Using creative thinking in subjects often associated with rote learning.
- Provoking responses to problems which are global rather than provincial in nature and which foster interests in the outside world.
- Encouraging students to question as a tool of learning.
- Fostering imagination and enjoyment through creative thinking.
- Exchanging experiences and cross cultural practices in creativity and innovation.
Modules
- Module 1 – Introduction to Creative Thinking Skills
- Module 2 – Outline of Neurobiology and the Creative Process / Assessment
- Module 3 – Teaching Creative Thinking
- Module 4 – Mental Blocks
- Module 5 – Types of Intelligences, Learning Styles
- Module 6 – Cultivating Culture Awareness
- Module 7 – USIT / Theater Activities
- Module 8 – The Importance of Dispositions and Metacognition
- Module 9 - Bloom’s taxonomy and designing creative tasks
- Module 10 – Good questions
- Module 11 – Project workshop and presentations
- Guided Tour
- Improvement of the level of key competences and skills
- Improvement of language skills
- strengthened professional profile of the teaching professions, positive and long-lasting effects on the trainees involved
- increased capacity to cooperate on international level
- practical ideas for classroom
- enhanced intercultural awareness
- internationalisation at the level of education
- broader understanding of practices, policies and systems in education
- encouragement of sharing best practices, ideas and materials between colleagues within the EU
- improvement of teaching and learning of languages and promotion the EU's broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness
- improved abilities to use innovative and student-centered pedagogical approaches and to develop appropriate assessment and certification methods, based on learning outcomes
- increased ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged
- boosted confidence in teaching subjects in English, improved teachers’ mobility
- mastery of transferable teaching techniques, e.g. multiple intelligences,editing and structuring reading texts, reinforcement and different approaches to teaching.
- acquisition of practical language to be used in the classroom, of new techniques, ideas, sources of materials
- improved creative thinking skills of both teachers and their students.
- Development of tools and techniques for innovative problem solving.
- Provoking responses to problems which are global rather than provincial in nature and which foster interests in the outside world.
- Encouraging students to question as a tool of learning.
- Fostering imagination and enjoyment through creative thinking.
- Exchanging experiences and cross cultural practices in creativity and innovation.
Trainees will be given soft and hard copies of all lesson materials, which they can review at their leisure in addition to presenting them to their colleagues at their own organizations to generate interest in 21st-century teaching methods with creative thinking. In addition, a mailing list of participants will be created in order to exchange ideas/experiences.