Mini Workshop: Boosting Creativity in the Teacher’s Room

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Mini Workshop: Boosting Creativity in the Teacher’s Room

What’s it all about?

Creativity is a key enabler for teachers to make their classes more memorable, effective and fun. But how to come up with courses that are really different — and this not only on a one-time but ongoing basis?

How to fire out the creative sparks that make your lessons fresher, more original and meaningful?

How to use creativity to make abstract content more tangible and hands-on for students?

Find out more by learning a few simple creativity techniques that you can use on an regular basis to design more creative classes. Discover that great creativity often flows once you move beyond simple Brainstorming.

Last but not least, learn to appreciate that before you can think out-of-the-box, you first got to know what the “box” is all about and specify your challenge.

Contents of the Mini-Workshop:

What is creativity? Why is it useful to design better lessons?

Boosting Creativity in the Teacher’s Room:

Part 1: What’s your challenge in teaching a particular lesson?

Part 2: Generating ideas for your teaching challenge using simple creativity techniques (Morphological Matrix, Metaphors and/or Pool Brainwriting)

Move from creativity to innovation by taking action

Our Speaker

Dr Detlef Reis (aka “Dr D”) is the Founder and Chief Ideator of Thinkergy Limited (www.thinkergy.com), the Innovation Company in Asia. Incorporated in Hong Kong and with offices in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Thinkergy is on a mission to create and empower innovators in Asia and beyond with the help of highly effective innovation methods that are delivered to clients in the form of innovation trainings, projects and licensing solutions.

Dr D is also the creator and inventor of Thinkergy’s four proprietary innovation methods: X-IDEA, an award-winning innovation process method and related thinking toolbox; Genius Journey, a creative leadership development method; TIPS, an innovation people profiling method; and CooL - Creativity UnLimited, an innovation culture transformation method. He has just finished his first book on creativity titled “Genius Journey. Developing Authentic Creative Leaders for the

Innovation Economy”, which is targeted for global publication in 2H.2015.

Over the past ten years, Dr D and Thinkergy successfully delivered over 150 innovation events (innovation trainings and projects) to multinational corporations and supranational organizations, large local corporations and SMEs, government and non-government organizations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Dr D is also a University Lecturer for Business Creativity and Creative Leadership at the College of Management, Mahidol University in Bangkok since August 2004.

Since 2014, he is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist

University, where he has taught as a visiting lecturer since April 2007.

Dr D looks back on a business career of more than 16 years with Deutsche Bank - one of the leading banks in the world- in Germany, Vietnam, the Philippines and

Hong Kong, where he held a position of Vice President and Regional Relationship

Manager in the Global Banking Division before starting his own venture.

Dr D graduated with a doctorate in international management from Saarbruecken University in Germany, and published a related book in German, “Financial Management in International Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises”.

Aside of his academic writings in his knowledge domain, Dr D is a regular columnist in the business section of the Bangkok Post (bi-weekly column “Creativity Un-Ltd.”). His articles also appeared in the Thai periodical “Director” and in “XL - Extraordinary Lives”, a globally distributed entrepreneurship magazine. Dr D is also a sought after keynote speaker and an expert in the domains Business Creativity and Innovation on corporate meetings and conferences (such as the Hong Kong Management Association’s Annual Conference 2008 in Hong Kong).