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Developing creative & critical thinking skills in teachers in trainingIATEFL Glasgow 2017 Marisa Constantinides
Teacher Educator / Director of CELT, Teacher Development Centre
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Why creative thinking training • Lesson Planning
• Course Planning
• Adapt existing materials
• Create their own materials
• Design material quickly and off the cuff
• Respond to learner needs with more confidence
• Generate more ideas for their classes
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Why critical thinking training• Internet
• Multitude of Blogs
• Quality of content
• Ready-made materials online
• Gurus
• Trends & Fashions in ELT
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Creativity - Conditions
Playful
ParadoxicalFun
Emotional
Safe
Praised
Scaffolded
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• thrives within constraints• benefits from the paradox• is triggered by what is unusual• dies when things get too normal • is sparked off by humour • is revived by exaggeration
Creativity
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Mix n’ match them Small & Big time
Think about what they do as you try them out
Some activity suggestions
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You were seen leading a group of blindfolded students through a mall after listening to a dialogueYou were seen gluing shoes on the door outside your classroom before a grammar lesson
Predicaments
Write two predicaments of your ownChoose someone from the other team to put on the spot!
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CLT PPP
TBLSW
LACLL
GT
Balloon debates
Put some real gurus in the balloon too if you dare!
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Six Thinking Hats
Focus on the first 15 minutes of the lesson you will be observing and write your comments – only those related to your given thinking hat
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Preoccupations
Drilling Roleplays
Use of L2 Use of L1
PPP TBL
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Pairs battle it out trying to draw each other into talking about their preoccupation
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Desert Island – choose 5 items to teach for a week on a this island
a DVD player
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• Mark/highlight all unnecessary talk • Add an activity after each stage for better transitions• Add some/more scaffolding• Omit anything not needed • Change stages or activities with ones you think will
work better
Working with Transcripts of lessons
Transcription software https://transcribe.wreally.com/ There is also a chrome extension available
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Most useful tools from Bloom’s digital taxonomyAnd some more
CriticalThinking
CreativeThinking
http://bit.ly/Ru3JoP
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Curation & Content CreationDiigo Pinterest Scoop.it
http://bit.ly/Ru3JoP
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The Big Picture
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
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• Designing a wix, facebook• Filming lessons on mobile phones or tablets• Wiki-ing Collaborating wiki type pads Edmodo, Twiducate • Publishing issuu yudu You Tube wordpress • Videocasting skype, livestream • Podcasting Voxopop Voicethread Soundcloud Podomatic• Blogging Wordpress, Blogger or Tumblr
• Taking part in hashtagged discussions on Twitter #ELTchat
Some tech tools which we have found useful
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Download this free book which is FULL of great ideas of creative activities
• Click here for the download
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About me
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