Marisa Constantinides, CELT Athens Teacher Education Centre Director Creative thinking, or divergent production potential is present in all learners but many of the standard classroom activities stunt rather than develop it. This presentation aims to point out opportunities for making this part of our design including activities that have the potential of developing the different facets of this composite aspect of human intellect. Presented at the City & Guilds 1st Teacher Development Symposium in Athens & Thessaloniki in 2011 (February 20 & 27)

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14. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Elements of creative behaviour Relationship to Language Production Fluency Ability to produce large numbers of ideas Easy & ready flow of talk; production of sustained talk Flexibility Ability to produce diverse ideas (not the same kind) Ability to follow & respond to changes in conversation; Elaboration Ability to add on to and embellish an already existing idea Ability to avoid simplistic responses; ability to improve set phrases and embellish them; useful for writing Originality Ability to produce uncommon, 'clever' ideas Ability to produce novel utterances; avoidance of clichés

15. What’s on the other half of the picture? Describe it to a friend who must draw it @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

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17. What’s on the other half of the picture? @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

18. Improvise a conversation with all three people What are they saying? What are they thinking? @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

19. Write a strange/crazy caption @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011

20. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Here is what Spike Milligan wrote in his book Transport of Delight

25. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Brainstorm as many unsual uses of this object with your team You win if you have more than the other team but the uses must be unusual!

26. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 How I met the Queen! The joke which made the queen laugh A day in the life of (one of the ladies) Advice I was given before I met the Queen

29. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 You win a point if the text does NOT answer the question – you lose a point if it DOES 

30. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 Hold a conversation with a partner – each one of you has one of these two preoccupations – try to draw the conversation to yours without interrupting in a rude way.

32. @Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / City & Guilds 2011 My email [email_address] My Twitter ID http://twitter.com/Marisa_C My Centre www.celt.edu.gr My Blogs http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/ http://celtathens.wordpress.com/ http://celt-athens-tefl-courses.blogspot.com

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