Become the kind of educator today's brighter than ever kids need for thriving in the future world with this original guidebook. Creative education has never been simpler and more fun. This engaging must-read is packed with ideas and tools, based on the author's 20 years of experience in creativity education. Discover an out-of-the-box interdisciplinary strategy that will help you foster young minds' creative thinking toward success in higher education and in life. Inspire children with art and literature to arise curiosity for nature, science and environment. Invite STEAM education into language arts lessons to ignite meaningful learning environments. In her unique conversational tone Michelle Korenfeld outlines the 5E's. Those are 5 core practices for facilitating children's and youth's creativity: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate and Express. With those principles in mind your path is set for directing children into high thinking and 21st century skills. Need help meeting the challenges of raising creative thinkers? Michelle's heartwarming paintings will connect you with the creative facilitator hidden inside you. The appendix offers useful lesson plans for fascinating children with issues such as energy and global warming. It was developed with the help of Dr. Moshe Rishpon, who established the Clore Garden of Science and The Science Oriented Youth Department in the Weizmann Institute, Israel. This unit is a pioneer program in science education, and a leader of the field worldwide. Raising Creative Thinkers offers printed and online books that blend science with language proficiency. Art and literature introduce nature and environment. The children don't notice that they are learning. Michelle Korenfeld is a lifelong creativity educator, facilitator, author, poet and painter. She is driven by a passion to nurture curiosity in children's hearts and mind, not letting innate creativity be ignored and become stifled. Amplify empathy and grow your respectability as a teacher, parent or grandparent with this pleasure to read album, to raise creative thinkers taking roots, shooting up and blooming into the global village.
- | Author: Michelle Korenfeld
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 145 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1540597830
- | ISBN-13: 9781540597830