Teaching Effective Thinking: Brainstorming and Brainwriting

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This is my second blog post on promoting creativity in the classroom, following on from EAP Teaching Effective Thinking: Introduction.

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EAP: Teaching Effective Thinking Introduction

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The World Economic Forum identifies four capabilities 21st century students require:

  • Critical thinking / problem solving
  • Creativity
  • Communication
  • Collaboration

These skills are sought after in the Arts, the Sciences, Business, Education, everywhere, really. Read more

CPD Course 3: Using Creative Problem Solving FutureLearn

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This is a FutureLearn course created in conjunction with the National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University. It’s another very short, asynchronous course. It is more practical than ‘Unlocking the Creative Brain’, giving a lot of practical suggestions for utilizing the neurological processes involved in creativity.

CPD Course 2: Unlocking the Creative Brain FutureLearn

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This is the first FutureLearn course I’m taking, it’s been created by Central Queensland University. I want to understand how to encourage creative thinking in classes, particularly when with EAP students, children and teenagers as teaching creative thinking is becoming more of a feature in mainstream education.  Read more

RefuAid

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RefuAid is a really positive non-profit organisation which helps asylum seekers in the UK to access education and training to further or adapt their skills to the UK context.

Academic Reading Circles (ARC)

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This year we’ve started using Academic Reading Circles. They’ve really worked. Not just in training students to read texts more carefully but in giving them the opportunity to participate in seminar-type discussion afterwards. The students really enjoy them. Read more