Arguing the case for including creative thinking skills development activities on training courses

1. Marisa Constantinides
Teacher Educator &
Director of CELT Athens,
Teacher Development Centre
From a colloquium with the title
15’ version

2. (No of important decisions Ts make every day)

3. Teaching
Skills
Creative
potential

6. Aspects of Creative Thinking

8. It doesn’t just happen
• Practise• Try out
•Share•Learn
Curate Connect
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9. Playful
ParadoxicalFun
Emotional
Safe
Praised
Scaffolded

10. Examples of modelling or practising
creative behaviours

11. CLT PPP
TBL
SW
LA
CLL
GT

12. Drilling Roleplays
Use of L2 Use of L1
PPP TBL

14. You were seen gluing apples to a
wall outside your class before a
grammar lesson

15. • Lesson Planning
• Course Planning
• Adapting existing materials
• Creating their own materials
• Designing material quickly and off the cuff
• Responding to learner needs with more confidence
• Generating more ideas for their classes

16. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

18. •Practise•Try out
•Share•Learn
Curate Connect
PersevereUnblock

19. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

20. • Designing wix, facebook, weebly
• Filming any mobile phone or tablet
• Mixing Animoto Photopeach
• Re-mixing Firefox
• Wiki-ing Collaborating wiki type pads Edmodo, Twiducate
• Publishing issuu yudu You Tube wordpress
• Videocasting skype, livestream
• Podcasting Voxopop Voicethread Soundcloud www.podomatic.com/
• Blogging Wordpress, Blogger or Tumblr
• Taking part in hashtagged discussions on Twitter #ELTchat

21. Diigo Pinterest Scoop.it
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