INTEREDU™ - Developing Creative thinking Skills for KG

Curriculum

Developing Creative thinking Skills for KG

Program Details

Title	Developing Creative thinking Skills for KG
Duration:	15 hours
Prerequisites:	Completed “ Advanced Educational Qualification”
Material:	Training Guide, Program Kit, and online resources on Marifah
Level - Track:	Specialized Level - Kindergarten
Target Audience :	Kindergarten teachers

Short Description

This program illustrates the concepts and terminology on creative thinking and talent. It points out the mental physiological functions of human being and the infrastructure of creativity. It also deals with the importance of environment for discovering the readiness and interests of which aims at enhancing thinking and creativity. It deals with the concepts, educational definition and application of creativity, innovation, success, talent, and excellence. The program also includes activities to indicate the principles of creative thinking, methods of talent finding, and how to apply them on children, stages of creativity, characteristics of creative thinking, and thinkers. The program points out the factors discouraging creativity as well as creativity assessment models and creativity development programs to apply in classroom environments.

Big Ideas

•	Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality.
•	Even those of us who are not in explicit creative fields must come up with new ideas and insights in order to move ahead.
•	There is nothing more satisfying and fulfilling for children than to be able to express themselves openly.
•	Teachers make a powerful difference in what children learn and how they think.

Essential Questions

•	How can teachers generate ideas for children through activities?
•	What are the appropriate activities that stimulate creative thinking?
•	How can teachers benefit from some standards in developing creative thinking?
•	Why do we learn about the stages of creativity?

Outcomes

Unit	Outcomes
1	• Identify concept of creativity from different points of view. • Explain creativity, talent and excellence concepts. • Differentiate between creativity and intelligence. • Differentiate between creative thinking and critical thinking. • Identify the stages of creative process. • Summarize the characteristics of creative children in pre-school age.
2	• Use brainstorming strategy during activities. • Identify tests that help in discovering creators.. • Identify programs that help in recognition of creative minders. • Explain creative thinking development strategies. • Generate mechanisms of creative ideas.
3	• Identify the general principles of creative thinking • Identify the killers of creative thinking. • Practice titles test in Guilford scale. • Practice Skambr creative program.
4	• Identify the importance of patterns for children. • Create activities to imitate patterns and develop them. • Design activities for teaching geometric shapes. • Create activities around numbers. • Employ tangible items in teaching numbers. • Explain various methods of teaching Mathematics.

Assessment

No	Assessment		Component	Weight
1	Attendance and Participation		Participation	5
			Attendance	5
2	Formative Assessment	Self-regulated -assessment	KWL-Q	5
			Vocabulary Tool	5
		Trainer Assessment	Use these two questions in answering the following themes of unit: A. Based on your previous and expected knowledge, what is the acquired knowledge from this unit? B. Show how the information in this unit meet your needs? Depending on the previous questions, You can fill the vacuum by the following topics.	20 4 unit * 5



3	Summative assessment		Summative performance task: Plan activities for developing creativity and creative thinking of KG children covers all skills and activities covered by different theories of creativity	25


			Exit Task	5
			Portfolio	10

			Final exam	20
Program Total				100

Time Distribution

No	Item	Time (min)
1	KWL-Q	15
2	Pre-Vocabulary Tool	15
3	Terminology	10
4	Activity 1.1: Creativity Thinking Concepts	65
5	Activity 1.2: Features and characteristics	40
6	Assessment task	10
7	Activity 2.1: " Brainstorming "	10
8	Activity 2.2: Detection of Creativity	40
9	Activity 2.3: "Generating ideas"	40
10	Assessment task	10
11	Activity 3.1: “How do we get to creativity." General principles	40
12	Activity 3.2: "Obstacles thinking"	40
13	Activity 3.3: The principles of creative thinking "Thinking programs."	40
14	Assessment task	30
15	Activity 4.1: "Torrence scale applications"	50
16	Activity 4.2: "Six Hats"	55
17	Activity 4.3: "Children and Creativity "	50
18	Assessment task	10
19	Post -Vocabulary Tool	10
20	Exit Task	20
	Total	10 Hours