{"id":5520,"date":"2025-03-13T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/supporting-students-future-through-creativity-and-critical-thinking.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:53:50","slug":"supporting-students-future-through-creativity-and-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/blog\/supporting-students-future-through-creativity-and-critical-thinking","title":{"rendered":"Supporting students future through creativity and critical thinking in Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u200bThe school system, teachers and educators have a huge role to play in equipping students with the skills and competences they need to face their future life and career. Promoting critical thinking and problem-solving in the class was the main expectation with which our group of participants came to the course from 30th January to 5th February – Katharina from BG Rein<\/strong>, Isabel from Heilig-Hartinstituut Lyceum<\/strong>, Irena and Emilija from “Josip Broz Tito” High School<\/strong>, Mirela from O\u0160 Vladimira Nazora Pazin<\/strong>, Miriam and Katar\u00edna form Gymnazium Jana Papanka<\/strong>, Maria Irene form Agrupamento de Escolas General Serpa Pinto<\/strong>, Andr\u00e9s from IES Arcipreste de Canales<\/strong>. The most important learning objective for the week was preparing to foster 21st century skills in students, encouraging students to think outside of the box and strengthen their critical thinking skills.\n<\/div>\n
\n\u200bTalking about key competences for living in the 21st century, participants touched on the topic of learning and innovation skills<\/strong>, digital skills and also career and life skills, focusing their attention on the 4Cs: critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration<\/strong>. Most importantly, we learned through hands-on practice how differently our brain and thinking skills function when there\u2019s a problem to solve.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
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\nParticipants were presented with a series of challenges to help them reflect how common barriers to out of the box thinking can be easily overcome by applying specific strategies. For example, using the 6 Thinking Hats method<\/strong>, participants were able to put into practice \u201clateral thinking<\/strong>\u201d and devise its concrete application to some existing content they are teaching. Through individual practice and peer review it became noticeable that this method can be used in any subject to encourage students thinking outside the box<\/strong>.\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\n\u200bMoving to visual strategies<\/strong>, participants experienced new activities which could be used to stimulate students’ creative expression and could be a basis for brainstorming or discussing their ideas<\/strong>. We challenged an \u201conly-art\u201d perception\u00a0 of what \u201cvisual thinking\u201d encompasses, by proposing an innovative and digital perspective<\/strong>. As an outcome, our participant Isabel created this visual map of all the participants\u2019 sending organizations.\n<\/div>\n
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