WW HowToUseCreativityInTheClassroom PRESENTATION

How to use Creativity in the Classroom

Natasha Buccianti

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‘Everybody has a creative potential, and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. ‘

Paulo Coelho

Our goals for today’s webinar

1) What is creativity and why is it important?


2) Strategies for encouraging greater creativity in the classroom.


3) Activities for encouraging greater creativity in the classroom.

Warm Up Time!

A very silly sentence.

Warm Up Time!

A very silly sentence.

Susan sings songs when she picks shiny strawberries in Sweden.

Brainstorm Create

Choose:

‐ a letter from the alphabet

‐ a fruit that begins with that letter

‐ a verb and an adjective that begin with that letter

‐a girl’s name that begins with that letter

‐a city or country that begins with that letter


1) What is creativity and why is it important?

Creativity

The use of skill and imagination to produce something new or a work of art.

(Oxford Advanced American Dictionary definition)

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

11

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills

The 4 C’s:

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Critical Thinking

• Creativity

Creativity

Generates original ideas

Uses strategies to narrow list of

ideas

Willing to try new things

Doesn’t fear making mistakes

Demonstrates persistence


‘Creativity takes courage.’Henri Matisse

‘Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.’

Erich Fromm


2) Strategies for encouraging greater creativity in the classroom.

Be a model of creativity

Demonstrate creativity yourself. Set creative tasks, model creative answers, and show students how to be creative in practice.

Be a model of creativity

This can include:• Having a colorful and creative classroom

atmosphere• Using visual prompts with language• Telling stories, jokes, and singing songs• Do project‐based work and show models of your

own attempts

Ask challenging questions

Don’t ask ‘display’ questions. Ask questions you really want to know the answer to. Students need to know they aren’t just jumping through language hoops, but that you are interested in their responses, and that you respond well to creative solutions.

Encourage questions to be asked

Create an atmosphere of enquiry. Have students ask you and each other questions they are really interested in. Don’t be afraid of being asked questions you don’t know the answer to. Ask students to come up with their own answers.


‘Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of all great, creative people.

Leo Burnett

Set open‐ended challenges

Provide tasks and activities where different outcomes can be achieved so that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer.

Set open‐ended challenges

For example:

• Writing new endings for stories• Picture dictations• Personal responses• Problem solving tasks or ranking activities• Pair and group work

Make connections

Encourage students to make connections as this fosters creativity. Connections between language and content, between subjects, and between the classroom and the real world.


‘Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.’

Steve Jobs


3) Activities for encouraging greater creativity in the classroom.

Creativity and learning a language

Every aspect of language learning can be made creative….

For example:

• Grammar• Reading• Speaking• Writing• Projects

Grammar

Oxford Discover Student Book 1

Grammar

Reading


Speaking


Writing


Projects



‘We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

Ayah Bdeir

Any questions?


‘Creativity is contagious, pass it on. ‘

Albert Einstein

A final thought

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