Encouraging Creative Thinking

description

Creative thinking is considered to be a key skill for 21st century. Encouraging Creative Thinking (ECT) course will not only challenge your own creativity but also provide you with innovative, ready to use methods that will spark and develop creativity in any curriculum based subject or workplace.

target group

• Teachers (primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
• Teacher trainers
• Headteachers
• Principals and school managers

methods

• Lectures and seminars
• Practices
• Project works
• Collaborative teamwork
• Q & A activities

modules

• Module 01 – Introduction to Creative Thinking Skills
• Module 02 – Using ICT to Encourage Creativity / Assessment
• Module 03 – Teaching Creative Thinking
• Module 04 – Mental Blocks
• Module 05 – Types of Intelligences, Learning Styles
• Module 06 – Cultivating Cultural Awareness
• Module 07 – Theatre Activities
• Module 08 – The Importance of Dispositions and Metacognition
• Module 09 – Bloom’s taxonomy and designing creative tasks
• Module 10 – Good questions
• Module 11 – Project workshop and presentations
• Guided City Tour

learning outcomes

The participants of this course will

• improve creative thinking skills, foster imagination, trigger spontaneity and enjoyment in everyday life,
• master transversal skills and innovative teaching techniques, e.g. multiple intelligences and questioning as a tool of learning,
• generate ready‐to‐use techniques, materials and ideas to encourage school or organisational development in the field of ECT with regards to interdisciplinary and inclusive approach,
• apply creative thinking methods to any subject, encourage students’ learning autonomy, foster spontaneous activities and solving meaningful real-world tasks,
• develop relevant, high-level skills (creativity, critical thinking, innovative problem solving), enhance good quality of mainstream education,
• meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, engage in cross-cultural learning experience, exchange ideas and build a network for future international cooperation,
• gain broader understanding of practices, policies and systems of education of different countries, cultivate mutual respect, intercultural awareness and embed common educational and training values,
• revise and develop personal and professional competences, build confidence in promoting innovative and active pedagogies and
• enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden professional vocabulary and promote EU’s broad linguistic diversity.

We can offer you both 5 and 10 day courses. For the availability of dates please contact us using the button below!