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CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE TURKEY

October 25, 2016, 7:20 pm

sweetieboy
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Preparation:

Course organisers will send to the participants list of materials related to the course topic they can read in order to prepare for the course. Organisers will be on stand-by if participants need any information related to the accommodation, plane tickets or any detail necessary in organising the course.

Course description

The course is structured into 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.

Methodology:

The methodological approach implicates:

Team – Building Sessions;
Group Discussions;
Debates;
Creation of individual learning pathway for the learners;
Problem – Solving Activities;
Project – Solving Activities
Inquiry – Based Activities
Questioning;
Goal – Setting sessions;
Decision – Making Sessions;
Action – Based Strategies;
Brainstorming;
Star bursting;
Planning an Structuring;
Negotiation and Persuasion;
Ice – Breaker Sessions,
Self – Motivation Sessions;
Questionnaires

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

– Introduction to Creative Thinking Skills
– Outline of Neurobiology and the Creative Process / Assessment
– Teaching Creative Thinking
– Mental Blocks
– Types of Intelligences, Learning Styles
– Cultivating Culture Awareness
– Drama Activities
– The Importance of Dispositions and Metacognition
– Bloom’s taxonomy and designing creative tasks
– Creativity through Inquiry – Based Learning
– Project workshop and presentations

Learning Outcomes

– Integration with teachers from various European countries
– Improvement of language and communication skills
– Increased capacity to cooperate on international level
– Getting practical ideas for applying in 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
– 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…
– 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.

Follow-up

Trainees will be given soft and hard copies of all lesson materials, which they presenting 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. Self-evaluation materials will be provided. At the end of the course the participants will accomplish a questionnaire in order to get a detailed feedback for the effectiveness of the training event.

Programme of training activities day-by-day:

Day 1 – MONDAY

Welcome and registration
Introduction to the Concept of Creativity
Creative Thinking Skills
Teacher's Centered Approach vs. Student's Centered Approach – Comparison
How Creative is 21st Century Educator ?

Day 2 – TUESDAY

Practical Ways to Motivate Students
Lateral Thinking – How to Think Outside the Box
Multiple Intelligence Theory
What is Your Learning Style

Day 3 – WEDNESDAY

Introduction to the Concept of Inquiry – Based Learning
How to Be Creative with Your Students through Inquiry – Based Learning
Mental Blocks – Obstacles to our Creativity
Creation and Cooperation: Are We More Creative When We Work Together

Day 4 – THURSDAY

Bloom's Taxonomy and Designing Various Creative Tasks
Application of Creative Tasks in Different School Subjects: from Math to History
Problem and Project – Based Teaching
Things You Can Do To Promote Creativity in Classroom;

Day 5 – FRIDAY