Creative Problem-Solving

About the book in short:

Humorous story, secret keys, interdisciplinary inspiration, and creative problem-solving challenge.

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Stimulate creative problem-solving competence with this fun educational gem! The students communicate, collaborate, and critically and creatively engage, supported by a safe and caring environment. 

More about the book:

The journey begins with a humorous heartwarming story in verse about a dispute between quail and ostrich. Chicki, the birds' king, solves it creatively, being kind and empathetic. With a birds' eye-view he directs children to seeing the big picture. The children discover the secret keys for such creative problem solving and caring conflict management!

Ignite students to embrace persistence and mindfulness inspired by the adorable Chicki. Among the pages of this book, they will find a letter from Chicki, addressed to them. Michelle Korenfeld's endearing drawings will captivate them and make them eager to read on. The young collaborators will add original drawings, writings, and ideas in response to what is already on the pages. Enriching their world knowledge and English proficiency, they will amplify prompt engineering competency.

Identifying with Chicki, the active readers become ignited toward an engaging Creative Problem-Solving process. Learners flow 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 – confidently presenting its beautiful colors. 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 students enlighten with imagination and divergent thinking. Then direct them to converge by sorting their ideas toward an original educational product.

Michelle Korenfeld'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.
 

The author:

Michelle Korenfeld’s books are based on her workshops at the Creative Problem-Solving Institute (CPSI) - the Creative Education Foundation, university at Buffalo New York. Resources are based on her teaching at the Dr. Erica Landau Institute for the Advancement of Youth to Excellence and Creativity. The scientific enrichment is 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. Nature mentor is Dorit Wolenitz, Chair of ICOM NATHIST.

Michelle Korenfeld – PD facilitator, author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean's excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books - writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers believing in children and youth's strengths.