Publisher's Synopsis
Raising Creative Thinkers- Problem Solvers, Conflict Managers and Communicators is great for promoting creative thinking. It makes teaching creative problem-solving a fun educational experience. The kids enhance communication skills supporting a safe and caring environment.The journey begins with a humorous heartwarming story about a dispute in the animal world. Chicki, the birds' king, solves it creatively being empathetic and directing to seeing the big picture. What are the secret keys for such creative problem solving and caring conflict management? Ignite children to embrace persistence and mindfulness inspired by the beloved Chicki in this fun educational STEAM book. They will even find a letter from Chicki addressed to them hidden inside. The cute drawings will captivate them and make them eager to read on. Identifying with Chicki, the active readers are invited to solve problems. To begin with, a quick and engaging process. Then readers glide into a challenging experience, in which Michelle introduces her open-minded ideation techniques. Nurture curiosity for science with interesting facts about the rainbow, structural coloration and more. Raise confident kids, like the peacock is self-assured presenting its beautiful colors in ease. Take a glimpse into Michelle's intuitively creative mind in which everything is possible to find the children mastering deliberate creative skills such as envisioning the future and generating multiple solutions. Comfortably step out of your comfort zone helping the children stretch their imagination with divergent thinking. Then direct them to converge by sorting their ideas toward an original educational product. Michelle's 5 E's strategy will lead your way. Begin with Explore- inspiring with interesting facts by the peacock poem and more. Experience - let the students draw ideas directed by the phases in the book. Examine - check the ideas. Elevate - recommend how to take the ideas to the next level. Express - invite the children to present the creative products to classmates, for the benefit of all learners. Michelle Korenfeld's STEAM education books are based on her workshops at the Creative Problem-Solving Institute, by the Creative Education Foundation, in the university at Buffalo New York. Her materials are based on her teaching at the Dr. Erica Landau Institute for the Advancement of Youth to Excellence and Creativity in Tel Aviv. The scientific facts are based on conversations with Dr. Moshe Rishpon, who established the Clore Garden of Science and The Science Oriented Youth Department in The Weizmann Institute. This unit is a pioneer program in science education and a leader of the field worldwide. Michelle Korenfeld is an Amazon author, lifelong creativity practitioner, 21st century learning curriculum developer, facilitator, painter and poet. Michelle is driven to nurture curiosity in children's hearts and minds. She is the director of Raising Creative Thinkers, whose blog helps teachers, educators, parents and grandparents step up 21st century learning. People come to her workshops in order to raise creative thinkers and find out they have raised themselves as such. Using the 5 E's as a success routine, people find creative problem solving accessible and simple.Michelle's STEAM resources are based on 20 years of experience integrating art and literature with nature, science and environment. Raising Creative Thinkers' books and strategy are based on a humanistic and caring approach. They are designed to foster 21st century skills like imagination, flexibility, communication. collaboration, and innovation.
