Creative and Critical Minds: Developing Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Classroom
About this course
Creative and Critical Mind is a practical, interactive course that gives educators effective tools to develop their students’ creative and critical thinking skills. Moving beyond memorisation, participants explore approaches that encourage learners to ask better questions, challenge assumptions, generate ideas, analyse information, evaluate different perspectives and design innovative solutions.
Through hands-on activities, collaborative exercises and real classroom examples, educators experience a range of thinking techniques, such as questioning strategies, brainstorming and idea generation, thinking routines, problem-solving and debate, that can be adapted to any subject, age group or learning context. The course also focuses on building a classroom culture where students feel confident to share ideas, make mistakes, explore alternatives and take ownership of their learning.
Participants leave with a practical toolkit of creative and critical thinking strategies ready to use in their classrooms from the first day back. They will be better prepared to help students become independent thinkers, confident problem-solvers and adaptable citizens ready for the challenges of the 21st century. The course fits Erasmus+ KA1 mobility projects (KA121 and KA122) for school and VET staff.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate creative and critical thinking strategies into everyday lessons across different subjects and age groups.
- Create a classroom culture where students feel safe to share ideas, take risks and learn from mistakes.
- Evaluate and adapt thinking activities to students’ needs, levels and learning contexts.
- Share creative and critical thinking practices with colleagues to promote a whole-school approach.
- Design questions and tasks that encourage students to analyse, evaluate and justify their ideas.
- Apply idea-generation techniques such as brainstorming, mind mapping and lateral thinking in class activities.
- Use thinking routines and structured discussions to help students explore different perspectives.
- Plan problem-solving activities in which students develop and test their own solutions.
- Create a lesson or mini-project for their own subject that combines creative and critical thinking.
- Understand the difference between creative thinking and critical thinking and how they complement each other.
- Identify key strategies and techniques that develop higher-order thinking skills.
- Recognise the classroom conditions that support or block creativity and independent thinking.
- Explain the role of questioning, feedback and reflection in developing students’ thinking skills.
- Recognise how creative and critical thinking connect with 21st-century skills and European key competences.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
*Please check our Terms & Conditions for details of the items included in the Coffee Corner.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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