Creative Thinking

All the participants will:

- Get familiar with the concept of Creative Thinking in 21st century teaching and learning methodologies

- Learn how to facilitate creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills among the students

- Learn how to help and improve their students to find and manage their potential

- Create their own teaching styles based on creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills in classroom

- Use interactive tools to provoke entrepreneurial thinking of schoolchildren and students

- The main objective of the training course is to prepare the participants to professionally lead

creative thinking and teaching the basics of entrepreneurship skills in schools. By the end of the

course participants will have a substantial understanding of tools such as:

- What your role is as a Teacher Creating,

- Using Personal Learning Profiles for Students.

- For facilitating creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills among their students

- They will get teaching guidelines by learning types of Intelligences, Learning Styles.

- Get teaching guidelines for designing lessons based on brainstorm and creative thinking, Teaching core entrepreneurial competencies, including business modelling,

- Design thinking and business planning.

- Getting familiar with the role of creative thinking, entrepreneurship, and self-management.

- Learning how to help and improve your students to find and manage their potential

- Creating your own teaching style based on creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills in classroom

- Introducing didactic games and simple exercises to foster and creative thinking entrepreneurial thinking in students

- Using interactive tools to provoke entrepreneurial thinking of schoolchildren and students

- Enhancing creative problem solving

- Identifying the concept of Creative thinking in schools

- Creating Personal Learning Profiles,

- Discussing the elements of fostering creative thinking, entrepreneurship, and self-management skills.

- Working in groups cooperatively

- Designing lesson plans

- Brainstorming

- Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, etc.

Before the course,

- A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.

- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.

- A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.

- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.

Ice-breaking activities and introduction of the course program

Getting to know each other – Presentation of participants (a five-minute presentation)

Managing pupils’ expectations about the entrepreneurship course

Teaching Creative Thinking

Designing lessons focusing on creative thinking

Challenges of technology in entrepreneurship

Interactive activities fostering creative thinking

Teaching core entrepreneurial competencies, including business modelling, design thinking and business planning

Innovation practices

Challenges in teaching design thinking. -Cultivating Cultural Awareness

Theater Activities

Modeling Theatre activities in classes

Good questions to foster creativity & Problem Solving

The Importance of Dispositions and Metacognition

Mental Blocks

7 types of creative blocks (What to do about them)

Cultivating Cultural Awareness

Teaching and practicing elevator pitch, creative presentation of business ideas.

Different approaches to market and users’ analysis

Field work: users’ analysis

- User’s data interpretation.

Implementing Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles in Distributed Learning

Overview of the course program

Evaluation of the course program

Filling the feedback forms

Europass Mobility Certificate, Participation Certificate