Encouraging Creative and Innovative Thinking in Schools
Section outline
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Welcome to ECT Moodle course. You will find here all the materials we will go through together during our sessions and links to interesting videos. It will be also the place where we will discuss various topics and share feedbacks. As I mentioned previously, there is no exam at the end of the course. However, you will get regular assignments. Moodle is the place you will find instructions to these tasks and upload your assignments.
You will get 2 types of assignments throughout the course. The aim of the first is to unlock your own creativity and to strengthen your divergent thinking. The purpose of the second type of tasks will be to deepen your knowledge about creativity, creative learning in the early years and most importantly, how to develop creative thinking in schools.
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This time you will explore your creativity through a land art project. It is completely up to you how you will approach it. You will find all the instructions and also some inspiration in this PowerPoint presentation. Send it to my email petra.vallin@pedf.cuni.cz by 2nd November.
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Watch the TED Talks about creativity and take notes into your double diary. Have your comments ready for the next session. Bring it to our next session on 3rd November. You will find the detailed instructions in the document.
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The last assignment has two objectives:
A. evaluate how Skills Builder website can be useful for teachers concerning encouraging and innovative thinking in schools
B. describe where you are as a creative person now and where you would like to be.
- Explore the Skills Builder website, we mentioned on last seminar. Focus only on the part that concerns creativity: https://www.skillsbuilder.uk/universal-framework-steps/creativity-step-1-imagining. Go through all 16 steps. Write down how this tool (criteria, steps, methodology) can be useful for developing creative and innovative thinking in schools and how you could use it as a teacher (at least 1800 signs).
- Then write a self-reflection about you as a creative person. You can use 16 steps mentioned above in Skills Builder. Questions that may help you: Which skills have I always had? Which particular skills have I improved during this course? Which skills would I like to acquire/practice next year? Why is it important in my future profession / in my life / in the 21st century? How will I do it? What can help me to develop this particular skill? (at least 1800 signs)