Critical Thinking Skills and Problem Solving
What is the course about?
This course looks at the challenges of working with 21st Century learners and the living in a VUCA world (with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), and the need to promote Critical Thinking and Problem Solving skills (Novel and Adaptive Approaches) with learners, as well as developing their own skills.
Frequently Asked Questions
After registration, participants on this course programme will receive:
- a pre-course questionnaire which will enable trainers to learn about the participants’ backgrounds
- information about the Europass Mobility Certificate
- a recommended reading list to prepare participants for various aspects of the course
- information about York to prepare teachers for their cultural experience.
At the end of the course, you will:
- be able to indentify practices to promote creative thinking and innovation
- have a knowledge of the link between creativity and innovation
- be able to understand, explain, and identify practices that create an innovative working environment
- have developed an understanding of the techniques involved in the creativity process
- be able to develop their own creativity techniques and apply them in the teaching environment
- be better able to develop ways of generating new ideas to solve problems
- have the ability to apply these techniques in real-world situations for optimum effectiveness
If you are from a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you will need a visa. Students from certain countries do not need to apply for a visa before arriving in the UK. You can check if you need to apply for a visa on the UK Visas and Immigration website.
In the unlikely event of a course not recruiting sufficient numbers you would be offered an alternative.
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Start date(s)
- March 29th 2021
- July 12th 2021
- October 4th 2021
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Course materials
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Is Erasmus+ funding available?
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Testimonials
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Sample Course Programme
| Session One | Session Two | Session Three | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONDAY | Ice-breaker Introduction to the course: objectives and methodology | What are Future Work Skills and which teaching skills are necessary to support your learners as global citizens | |
| TUESDAY | Traditional, transmission-oriented teaching vs a guided discovery approach | Creative thinking vs critical thinking Applying Design Thinking to teaching methodology | Defining and developing critical thinking approaches with our learners |
| WEDNESDAY | Using a problem solving approach in teaching | Creative Core thinking | Exploring practices to promote creative thinking and innovation |
| THURSDAY | Exploiting technology and supporting students’ critical appraisal of sources of information | The Kano approach to Delivering Innovation | Types of innovation – incremental v radical |
| FRIDAY | The Starbursting approach to problem solving | Brainstorming techniques and De Dono’s 6 Hat Thinking approach to problem-solving | Output: Personal Action Plan further professional development |
