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The art of creative teaching - edukacja dla twórczości
Start date: Dec 31, 2014, End date: Dec 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

We believe that creative thinking skills are essential for success in learning and success in life. Creative thinking involves a range of skills that can be promoted across the curriculum in pre-school. There is a potential for creative thinking in all fields of child activity, and in all lessons. Our project aims to enrich teaching skills of participants in a range of subject areas. It aims show ways to develop children’s capacity for original ideas and creative achievement. Children who are encouraged to think creatively show increased levels of motivation and self esteem. Creativity prepares them with the flexible skills they will need to face an uncertain future. Employers want people who are adaptable, innovative, can solve problems and communicate well with others. Creative children need creative teachers, the best time to developing the capacity to be creative and to enrich children's lives and help them to contribute to a better society is between 3-6 years. Therefore, the aims for our institution are: 1. To create the conditions to develop creative skills in different fields of child activity, 2. To activate the creative and imagination sphere 3. To develop the ability to let the children express themselves in different forms of activity 4. To stimulate creative attitudes 5. To help to build positive self-image 6. To support the emotional and moral awareness 7. To activate parents in the process of developing children interests and talents The participants are 10 teachers form Preschool Misiolandia in Bydgoszcz. The training will be focusing on practical aspects of methods and techniques that aim to thrive creativity in children. Teachers will learn how to explore, experiment and play with ideas as well as to develop children's interests. We want to develop our skills in creating right conditions for children's creativity to flourish. The project will help us to promote creativity and create a questioning classroom, where teachers and pupils value diversity, ask unusual and challenging questions; make new connections; represent ideas in different ways – visually, physically and verbally; try fresh approaches and solutions to problems; and critically evaluate new ideas and actions and develop their interests. Among the participants there are also head teachers whose priority is to reinforce quality of education and care in our school. They appreciate the opportunity to exchange ideas and develop links with educators from other European countries. We plan trainings for teachers to increase their professional skills: "Reinforcing quality in early childhood education" "Creativity in the classroom" "A course for European teachers of music" "A course for European teachers of art and design" "A course for European teachers of drama" "Making sense of the world through multimedia" Our project will give the teachers an opportunity to develop their creative potential and synthesize and apply knowledge to create for children conditions for increasing creative skills. Emphasis will be on motivating pupils through a variety of child centered activities which engage their imaginations and creativity. The teachers will learn a range of new ideas, practical classroom skills and materials for teaching English to young learners. They will also have an opportunity to exchange ideas and develop links with teachers from primary schools in other European countries. The results of the course will be innovative techniques and methods to use with children to activate them in different form. The new findings will be included into our curriculum. The teachers will create a number of lessons plans and the institution will be able to offer a wide variety of activities to develop children's interests and creativity. The parents awareness of the importance of child need for activity will increase and will be also the result of the project. A long-term result will be also the opportunity to develop links with educators and teachers from other European countries and work on mutual school projects.
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