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by Michelle Korenfeld (Author)
Amplify empathy and grow your respectability as a teacher, parent or grandparent with this pleasure to read guidebook. Discover that there is no need to buy educational products with this parenting book. Parenting a child who has intense emotions means your kid is gifted with creativity. Facilitating is already inside you and growing a successful kid is within your reach. Interweave creativity in education and learning. Blend mindfulness with humor and enrichment, respecting the children as young intellectuals, and they will reciprocate. Find out a cute, simple and totally perfect strategy helping children find their voice and succeed. Become the masterful educator today's bright and curious kids need with this inspiring guidebook. Packed with ideas and tools it is based on the author's 20 years of experience in creativity education. Discover an out-of-the-box strategy that will help you foster young minds' creative thinking toward success. 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 fostering children's and youth's creativity. Explore - Introducing learning by a story, short lecture or the use of technology. Experience - fun experiments, coloring and drawing or experiential activities. All to ignite children to draw on their own ideas. Examine - Checking the ideas the kids drew on with them. Elevate - Recommending how to take the ideas to the next level. And finally, Express - Interactively inviting kids to present their ideas, talk about them, or write creatively. With those principles in mind your path is set for directing children into creative problem solving - a vital skill for potential fulfillment.
The 5E's strategy has developed through Michelle's years of creative practice and through mentoring gifted kids. Creativity education has been practiced in gifted institutions for long. Michelle believes it should be implemented for the benefit of all children. She finds that much aggression and anxiety derive from unexpressed creative potential. And aims her books for growing children curious, happy and successful. Need help meeting the challenges of raising creative kids? Michelle's heartwarming paintings will connect you with the creative facilitator hidden inside you. The appendix offers STEAM 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. 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 communication. collaboration, and innovation. Michelle's original tools are also based on raising her daughters, who were students at the Dr. Erica Landau's Institute. Already teenagers, they still teach her creative thinking lessons every day, making life fun and excitin
