MHA904 - Creativity and Critical Thinking for High Ability Learners
About This Course
The course aims to prepare participants to deal with developing thinking dispositions in students and advancing learning programme designs that foster thinking communities. It builds an understanding of creative and critical thinking processes in highly creative and intellectually gifted learners. Participants explore the learning mode designs, drawing from whole brain research and functioning, that enhance life-long and life wide critical and creative thinking. Other than examining the 4Ps in creativity—the person, process, product, and press, it will discuss the intricacies of the creative-problem solving process and what constitutes a creative product. The development of higher-order analytical thinking, logical thinking, perception, imagination and discovery and conducting learner assessments of the range of thinking skills will be included in discussions. Research into the effectiveness and use of different models of instruction that promote critical and creative thinking and how to use this to ensure the professional practice translation of different thinking modalities is explored.
What You'll Learn
2. Develop curriculum documents & learning programme designs for the seamless infusion of critical and creative thinking skills within and across subjects.
3. Design instructional units that integrate dimensions of critical and creative thinking with their subject content
4. Conduct learner assessments and modify classroom instruction so that learning experiences and interactions enculture thinking communities in the classroom.
5. Address professional practice translation to monitor, assess, and provide feedback during learning so as to promote critical and creative thinking in the high ability learner
Entry Requirements
Experience in learning programs design & professional practice translation.