Course Description
Creativity is an endless well. It’s the thing that never ends no matter how much you use out of it. As the Chinese proverb says, teachers open the door, you enter by yourself. Teacher’s role in education is getting more of a facilitator than an all-time lecturers. They are supposed to encourage their students on how to be courageous enough to let go of their creative ideas. This courses gives hints to teachers on how to create an enjoyable, yet educating classroom led by creativity. Teachers will understand the concepts underlying creativity and innovation. They will also learn about the facts affecting and hindering this trait.
Course Objectives
- Learning how brain process creativity
- Discovering the sources of innovation and creativity and the obstacles in this way
- Creating a fresh classroom environment
- Designing activities suitable for various creativity areas
Who Should Attend?
- Teachers
- Educators
- Head teachers
- School supervisors
- Training personnel
- Anyone working in the educational field
Course Details/Schedule
- Creativity and innovation overview
- Sources of creativity and innovation
- Creativity processing in the brain
- Various factors’ impact on creativity and innovation (Country, Culture, Society, and Economy)
- Relations between educational and pedagogical techniques effective in promoting creativity and innovation
- Creativity in education
- Methods and techniques to facilitate creativity
- Messages from different experts about creativity and innovation in education
- Identifying potentially creative, innovative students
- Fostering creative, innovative students
- Creativity Empowerment
- The art of creative teaching
- Creative teaching, teaching creativity, and creative learning
- Creativity as “mindful” learning
- Creativity and pedagogy
- Technologies for learning, creativity and innovation
- Appropriative of technology
- Innovation teaching: the role of teachers
- Leisure Vs. school work
- Effective teaching and learning
- Technology as an enabler for charge
- Reasons for why technology integration fails in the classroom
- Enabling innovative teaching and creative learning
- Assessment
- Developing a cloud-like attitude
- Making use of Individual skills
- Implications for learners
- Tools, ICT, and digital media
