CJp523 Creative Methods in Teaching

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kateřina Martiníková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ondřej Sládek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In this course students will focus on the basic principles of creative process and the application of these principles in teaching literature. Students will use various methods of interpretation and explore the potential of specific texts. The texts will be selected from various contexts and used as a source of inspiration. Students will use them to enhance their own creativity, which will help them produce original materials for teaching. The reflection of those materials is a vital part of the course. The inspirational texts will be analysed from the contextual perspective and from the perspective of their specific features. The students will also analyse how they mirror the essential problems of human existence. Various approaches to creativity will be adopted.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be knowledgeable of the general principles of creativity;
- capable of approaching texts creatively and produce their own materials to work with them;
- able to find inspirational and motivating elements in texts and use those elements effectively;
- able to reflect upon the methods they produce and use this reflection and feedback to modify those methods.
Syllabus
  • 1. Defining creativity, objectives and aims of creative process regarding a particular context + Essential problems of human existence
  • 2. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
  • 3. Approaches to creative process + Myths
  • 4. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
  • 5. Creativity in a teaching process + Renaissance
  • 6. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
  • 7. Inspiration + Romanticism
  • 8. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
  • 9. Emotions, senses and reason + Realism and Naturalism
  • 10. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
  • 11. Creative thinking and uncertainty + Contemporary Czech literature
  • 12. Students’ activities + feedback + modification
Literature
  • FISHER, Robert. Učíme děti myslet a učit se : praktický průvodce strategiemi vyučování. Translated by Karel Balcar. Vydání třetí. Praha: Portál, 2011, 172 stran. ISBN 9788026200437. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Modely interpretace : Patočkovské průhledy. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 118 s. ISBN 8021026537. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Interpretace básní. Vyd. 2., přeprac. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 186 s. ISBN 8021016949. info
Teaching methods
seminar, discussions, presentations, application of selected methods, preparation
Assessment methods
The students will get the credits if they finish their own portfolio of methods. Requirements with the details will be published every semester in IS (Study materials).
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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