This workshop looks at how teachers can nurture creative students based on the creative problem-solving approach. Teachers will learn the different stages of creative problem-solving (CPS) and examine how the learning environment can facilitate or suppress student creativity. Teachers will be able to apply this psychological knowledge to the classroom in various ways. For example,…
This workshop looks at how teachers can nurture creative students using the personality approach. Teachers will be introduced to the Big-5 model of personality which asserts that there are five basic dimensions of personality. Teachers will examine the relationship between creativity and these Big 5 dimensions of personality. They will also analyze how the learning…
This workshop looks at how to be a happy and creative teacher based on the positive psychology approach. Participants will be introduced to the scientific study of happiness (also known as positive psychology) and gain insight on two basic approaches to happiness. The hedonic approach focuses on increasing pleasure and decreasing pain, whereas the eudaimonic…
