Creativity Enhancement for Kids: a Parents & Teachers Guide
What you'll learn
- Teach your kids seven idea generation tools
- Build the ability of you kids or students to see situations from a wider perspective
- Develop the diverse talents and multiple intelligences of children
- Use powerful methods with kids for expanding their point of view and going beyond the standard answers and solutions
- Strengthen the communication and interaction skills of kids and teens and their ability to see and appreciate diversity and variety
- Carry out fun activities with children and teens to practice the creative skills
- Use the creativity enhancement tools in a variety of opportunities which are relevant to children and youths
- Know how to explain the creativity methods and tools to children of all ages with clear explanations and examples
- Apply the games, activities and examples detailed in the course to activities at home or in the classroom
Requirements
- A desire to learn and to help kids and teens become more creative
- No prior knowledge of creativity or teaching experience is required
Description
Creativity is one of the most critical skills of the 21st century.
With all the innovations in technology, the changing economic world, the reshaping of social and business structures - we will all need Creative Thinking as a fundamental skill.
What does the need to be Creative mean to parents and teachers?
We need to be preparing our kids and students. We need to give them the creative thinking skiils and creativity tools they will need to face this constantly shifting reality.
This course will show you how.
The course covers the essential tools and methods that will help you enhance your children's creative thinking skills.
It takes you step by step through explaining the creativity tools, clarifying how YOU can use them with children, and providing you with examples and tips to get you started.
I created this course because I wanted us as parents and educators to take charge and enhance our children's ability to use creativity and to make it a natural part of their thinking habits.
Who should take the "Creativity Enhancement for Kids" course?
The course is designed with 3 types of students in mind:
- Parents who want to develop the creative skills of their children and make it a part of their natural habits
- Teachers and educators that are looking for ways to enrich their teaching methods on any subject matter, as well as to impart fundamental creative thinking abilities to their students
- Anyone who is interested in creativity techniques and would like to improve their own ability to use them and help others use them
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who has children of ages 5-18 and wants to enhance their creative skills
- Teachers and educators who would like to enrich their teaching methods and curriculum with creativity methods
- Anyone who is interested in creativity methods and would like to enhance their own ability to use them
- Parents, grandparents and caretakers who believe and want to develop the individual talents of the youngsters they care for
Instructors
Creativity, Innovation, Technology, Products, Learning - these are my passions and areas of expertise. I have extensive experience as a Business Development Executive, Product Manager, an Innovation and Creativity expert and consultant in numerous organizations. I am also an experienced learning management and learning development manager. I worked internally in multinational companies such as Amazon Web Services, Motorola and Teva Pharmaceuticals, and was also a senior consultant at ZOOZ Strategy, Innovation and Management consulting. In my various roles, I facilitated countless processes and workshops on a multitude of innovation and creativity tools - Blue Ocean Strategy, Systematic Inventive Thinking, SCAMPER, TRIZ Creative Problem Solving and more.
Until April 2017, I was Director of Product Innovation and Learning at the international learning solutions company Kineo for 6 years. I then moved to be Director of Corporate Solutions at SkillReal - delivering groundbreaking Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality solutions to the Corporate world. I am currently working Amazon Web Services as Digital Innovation Business Development Manager in EMEA.
I am also the author of the successful "100 Creative Presentation Ideas" book.
I hold a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and General studies, and a Masters in Organizational Development. I am also Six Sigma Green Belt certified, and hold AWS Certification of Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate
I am an experienced documentary films director, film producer and video editor. I directed the films "Birth dialogue", "Homebirth Stories", and "Planet Earth once". I own a film production company- "Virtuals.tv" which specializes in producing training videos for large organizations and businesses. We focus mainly on Green Screen and Virtual Studio productions. We also film and produce video commercials, TV series and marketing content.
Previously I was a IT instructor in the army as well as in the Israeli Education TV station. I am an expert in: avid, premier and davinci resolve.
I love making films, videos and the creativity that goes with it. I also love the fact that it allows me to meet so many interesting and talented people. I want to share this passion with you.