developing creative & critical thinking skills in teachers in training iatefl glasgow 2017

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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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CriticalThinking

CreativeThinking

TeacherThinking

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According to the World Economic Forum priorities are changing

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on a Training Course

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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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…or like this

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Cards to give out like this

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Preoccupations

Drilling Roleplays

Use of L2 Use of L1

PPP TBL

vs

vs

vs

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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Evaluating

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

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Most useful tools from Bloom’s digital taxonomyAnd some more

CriticalThinking

CreativeThinking

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Autonomous CPD

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• Practise•Try out

•Share•Learn

Curate Connect

PersevereChallenge

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Curation & Content CreationDiigo Pinterest Scoop.it

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The Big Picture

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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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CELT Atheswww.celt.edu.gr

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