Course Topic: Creativity
Creativity is considered one of the greatest assets a person can have in all fields of life.
Especially in a classroom context, creativity techniques can be extremely helpful for both students and teachers: they can help to maintain an open mind to new and innovative ideas.
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Acquire an understanding of the '4C's' and acknowledge their significance as essential life skills. Explore methods for integrating these skills into both the curriculum and the school environment.
ICT Tools for a Creative and Collaborative Classroom
Discover online applications and environments, focusing specifically on web solutions that foster inclusivity and sustainability, in order to boost collaborative work, creativity, and engagement.
Art, Music, and Dance Therapy for an Inclusive Classroom
Discover the power of creativity for creating an inclusive classroom and fostering motivation, autonomy, self-esteem, participation, and collaboration.
Drama Techniques: Developing Self-Expression, Communication and Social Skills for All Students
Learn an array of new ways to boost participation, motivation, and confidence in the classroom through the implementation of innovative solutions that are more practical and expressive, and therefore, more enjoyable.
Integrating Creativity and Innovation into Teaching
Gain crucial knowledge on ICT in education in order to implement technology in the classroom. Discover an array of ideas on how to apply new teaching strategies to boost high-order skills in students.
ICT in the Classroom: Innovative Tools to Facilitate Students Learning, Collaboration and Creativity
Acquire crucial knowledge to use, select, and effectively incorporate ICT tools in everyday teaching in order to boost creativity, motivation, and engagement.
Digital Tools for Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking (4Cs)
Acquire the knowledge, the know-how, and the confidence to insert the 4Cs skills into the curriculum and school environment. Learn to design practical activities using ICT resources, which are more efficient at developing the 4Cs in students.
Discover the 7Cs: Learning for Life (and Work) in the 21st Century
Acquire knowledge on how to innovate school curricula by gaining a systematic understanding of 7 of the most important soft skills in the 21st century as a response to migration and rapid technological development.
3D Printing and Maker Culture for a Sustainable World
Discover the basics of 3D printing within the maker culture to promote environmental sustainability in their classroom. Ggain consciousness about the notions of a zero-waste life, as well as the culture of repair and the maker movement.
Active Art: Understanding and Enjoying Art in the Classroom and Beyond
Develop an understanding of art and creativity in different contexts to effectively deal with their students’ creative process. Find out new ways of combining art theory and practice.
The Child First: Montessori, Reggio Emilia System and Contemporary Approaches to Pre-School Education
Discover alternative teaching methods like the Montessori Method, and the Reggio Emilia Method. Enhance critical and creative thinking skills, gaining crucial abilities to promote independence, and creativity in the classroom.
The Well-Being Code: Energy Tools and Mind-Body Activities for Self-Care
Acquire stress management techniques, resilience-building skills, and coping strategies to promote personal well-being and social-emotional learning. Discover methods to create a positive learning environment.
Traditional Arts and ICT Art Tools for Teaching your Subjects and Promoting Life Skills
Learn to integrate traditional art techniques and ICT art tools into your teaching practices in order to boost creativity and critical thinking, and enhance the development of crucial life skills.
Teach with a Twist! Motivate your Students with Creative Teaching Strategies
Gain useful skills to motivate your students by integrating creative thinking and problem-solving into your lessons. Discover student-centered activities and learn about creative digital tools to support the students’ diverse learning needs.
AI and the 6Cs for Future-Ready Teaching
Explore AI tools that enhance teaching and learning in the context of the 6Cs. Create a collaborative, inclusive, and digitally-enhanced learning environment.
Boosting Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Acquire a new conception of the mechanisms of creative thinking and discover new strategies to nurture your immagination, improve creativity, and generate new ideas.
Case-Based Learning (CBL)
Learn to apply Case-Based Learning in your classrooms and school subjects, as well as in interdisciplinary projects to increase students’ curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving, and promote an active learning environment.
Drawing and Painting in Barcelona: Everyone is an Artist!
Acquire a set of drawing and painting techniques to use in your private or in your school life. Gain more confidence in your artistic capacities and discover how to incorporate creativity into your teaching practice in a non-judgmental way.
Drawing: a Powerful Tool for Creativity and Personal Development
Learn to find your expressivity, use drawing to bring focus to the topic or activity. Discover how to exploit drawing and illustration to support student learning.
Game Design for Teaching and Learning
Learn the difference between Game-Based Learning, Gamification, and Game Design. Be familiar with Inquiry-Based Learning. Learn to run short game jams, and discover the different steps of game design.
Music Activities to Stimulate Emotion, Creativity and Engagement
Experience the power of music and learn how to use it to meet the students’ needs. Discover how to include music in the classroom to develop cognitive and emotional abilities by implementing the principles of music psychology and music therapy.
Performance Art Techniques for an Effective Communication
Discover all the ways in which performance arts, such as theatre, storytelling, and role-play can encourage effective communication, increase creativity and help in the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts.
Primary Students and Creative Competence: Thriving in the Unknown
Learn how to prepare students for revolutionizing careers and how to develop and evaluate children’s abilities and attitudes in a positive, motivating school environment.
Teaching Inclusion and Democratic Values Through Interactive Drama Activities
Explore the concept of drama pedagogy as a response to the pressure for students to become responsible citizens of tomorrow’s democratic society. Use drama conventions in educational contexts.
3D Printing and Modeling: an Introduction for Schoolteachers
Delve into the fundamental principles of 3D printing within the rich tapestry of the maker culture. Learn how to foster environmental sustainability in educational settings, promoting an awareness of concepts such as the culture of repair.
Arduino for STEAM: Hands-On Learning in the Digital Age
Navigate the challenges of tomorrow's complex educational landscape, utilizing Arduino to equip yourselves with valuable tools and knowledge, and foster essential skills like problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Bring Creativity into the Curriculum
Acquire a better understanding of creativity as an essential skill that empowers young people to adapt and innovate. Discover an array of new assessment tools, as well as concepts such as the Five Core Attitudes and the Seven I’s of Creative People.
Capture Cities’ Cultural Heritage with Video Reportage
Develop your skills in collaborative learning, storytelling, and gaining a new perspective on the world around you by creating engaging video content using free ICT tools and software.
Conflict and Bullying Prevention through Role-playing and Storytelling
Discover how the use of different forms of performance art can help resolve conflict within the classroom or prevent bullying. Learn how to foster active listening, empathy, and emotional intelligence among the students.
Creative and Innovative Activities Using Beginner English
Gain valuable tools and strategies to bring innovation, inclusion, and creativity into the classroom, developing new skills, forming lasting memories, and forging international friendships.
Creative Writing: Engaging Activities for Pupils and Students
Deepen your writing skills while discovering poetry, novel activities, games, and techniques to introduce the learners to creative writing. Learn how to make writing more personal by expressing emotions, feelings, and expectations through it.
Cultivating Self-Leadership: The 8 Cs for Personal Growth and Success
Gain valuable tools to foster self-leadership between you and your students. Develop strategies to cultivate the 8 Cs of self-leadership to create a positive impact in the classroom and empower students for lifelong success.
Expressive Learning: Integrating Art for Engaging Classrooms
Acquire a repertoire of diverse art activities for teaching, fostering student engagement, creativity. Develop proficiency in bookbinding techniques and engage in self-reflection through color and drawing techniques.
Flipped Education: Creating Engaging Audiovisuals for Asynchronous Learning
Acquire knowledge of video essay creation tools and platforms. Develop storytelling skills, enhance ICT competence and digital media literacy. Enhance formal and informal strategies to teach video essay creation to students.
Hands-on Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education: From Sensory Education to First ICT Uses
Dive into the essentials of hands-on pedagogy in early childhood education, focusing on engaging young learners through play, creativity, and technology. Learn to adapt your classroom to diverse learning styles, fostering holistic development and a love for learning.
Holistic Approaches to Early Years Education
Develop a holistic perspective of infant education considering a child’s intellectual, emotional, and social potential. Discover practical ways to transform the current mainstream methodology.
ICT Basic Tools for Gamification and 21st Century Skills
Gain hands-on experience with various apps and programs to integrate them into teaching. Learn to create interactive lessons that will foster 21st-century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Mastering the Art of Storytelling to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Develop an understanding of the importance of communication skills in both professional and private life. Discover the power of storytelling, alongside useful techniques to create and tell a story while keeping your audience engaged.
The Finnish Approach to Art and Design in Education
Learn how various learning environments nurture artistic educational experiences. Gain knowledge about the Finnish approach to art and education. Apply these principles into your own educational contexts.