CREATIVITY AND MOTIVATION IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM

Summary

This article presents various aspects referring to creativity and motivation in teaching English for teenagers. As Sir Ken Robinson said, school tends to smother children's creativity and it is up to the teachers to adapt the materials in order to boost students' creative insight as well as motivation.

Moreover, in an era of computers and information, it is quite a challenge to keep students motivated. The article summarises the most important aspects about the two topics I learnt during my most recent training, the Comenius course: Creative Activities and Motivating Materials in the Secondary Classroom, Portsmouth.

Keywords: creativity, motivation, strategies, humour, learning, materials, activities

BIODATA

Stefana Balan is an English teacher in "Vasile Alecsandri" National College, Bacau. She is interested in applying and eliciting strategies to enhance creativity and motivation in learning. She is also interested in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and in October 2013 became a Licensed NLP Master Practitioner having as main trainer Dr. Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP). Her articles about personal development and education can be found on her blogs: http://balanstefana.blogspot.ro and http://stefanabalan.blogspot.ro.