Course Description
Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving through Storytelling
Practical Strategies for Self-Awareness, Adaptability and Independent Learning
What helps us start a demanding task and find another way forward? Through creating and transforming short stories, teachers explore how they organise ideas, manage attention and respond to difficulty. Activities include opposite stories, mosaic narratives, journeys through time and characters in unfamiliar settings. Selected AI activities develop a teaching intention into a scenario for critical reading, revision and independent writing. Participants exchange experiences and consider how to support learners without taking over their work. They leave with original stories and an activity adapted for their own classroom.
Concept by Vladimir Papić
Learning objectives and outcomes
- Organise ideas and explain how narrative sequence affects understanding.
- Use reversal and unfamiliar situations to explore alternative solutions.
- Recognise personal approaches to planning, attention and difficulty.
- Choose manageable steps and support that encourage learner independence.
- Critically assess and independently revise AI-generated scenarios or stories.
- Adapt a storytelling activity and plan how to evaluate its classroom use.
Target Group
Teachers across subjects, school librarians and teacher educators wishing to extend their creative practice. No advance reading or previous course attendance is required.
Methodology and assessment
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Teachers experience tasks as learners before reflecting on their own process and considering classroom use. Individual writing, paired comparison and group discussion connect practical work with teaching experience. Trainer and peer feedback support revision; participants select examples for their final presentation.
Learning Programme and Tasks
Day 1. Story structure and opposite stories; changing a central decision and following its consequences.
Day 2. Connecting selected words around a central motif; mosaic storytelling and movable mind maps.
Day 3. An imagined ancestor’s journey and present-tense storytelling; critically revising an AI-generated teaching or learning scenario.
Day 4. Future stories and contrasting AI scenarios; ordinary characters solving problems in extraordinary settings.
Day 5. Extraordinary characters in everyday life; story revision, classroom adaptation and preparation for sharing.
Day 6 Saturday. Wrap-up and SPRE presentations to other course groups; feedback, evaluation and certificates. Approximately 2.5 hours.
Dates and Prices
| Language level: | English B1 and above* |
| Locations: | Pula (Croatia) |
| Time: | 9 AM to 2:30 PM daily (extracurricular activities outside of learning activities) |
| Dates: | Pula: 19-24 July 2027 (6 days, 30 lessons) |
| Price: | €510 (6 days) - including an extracurricular activity and a welcome lunch or dinner |
*The language of the course is English, linguistic aid may be provided for speakers of Hungarian with lower language abilities.
Conditions
The course complies with all rules as set in the Quality Standards of the Erasmus+ program. Courses are including an extracurricular cultural activity and a welcome lunch or dinner, and study groups are international. Note: should the latter condition not be met, participants will be informed 40 days in advance.
Payment facilities: participants with funding from the actual year’s project budget may ask to request a deposit of EUR 100 to guarantee their places on the course and pay the rest of the fees later.
It is possible to take part in 2 consecutive courses, please book both separately. A price reduction of 15% will be applied.
This course is hosted by Talijanska srednja skola Dante Alighieri (OID: E10101077) in Pula (Croatia).