Creativity is easier said than done. We all want to fill our classes with stories and laughter, with engaged students producing original, innovative, hilarious work. But how? Creativity isn't a tap you can turn on and off. And with the demands of a packed curriculum and a textbook to get through, how can we find time to be creative? And what if, when we do, we just get blank faces staring back at us?
Creativity is about having original ideas and then turning these into reality. After all, we don't just want our students mindlessly regurgitating the pre-packaged sentences from our textbooks. The truth is though, as you'll learn in this course, we are all creative.
That's why creativity is at the core of a successful language classroom. We are all capable of innovative ideas - in any language. And what do you think our students would prefer to talk or write about: the next page in the book, or the funny story they want to tell? Creativity brings language classes to life.
In this course, we'll show you how to tease that out. We'll show you how repetition is your friend, how constraints force you to think in new ways, how choices can prompt new ideas, and how courage brings it all out.
After completing this course, you will plan lessons with exciting productive activities that get the whole class engaged, and even rolling around laughing with wacky and wonderful ideas.
You will take students outside or around the school to explore and discover authentic language that ends up producing amazing projects.
You will give students confidence and you’ll see their beaming smiles as they show their family and friends the authentic, original work they’ve produced in their second language.
You’ll have a suite of ready to go, low prep, and highly effective activities that you can use at the drop of a hat, even if you have to cover a class at the last minute.
Join us on this free course to explore creativity in the language classroom, and how to make it part of your classroom, every day.
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Chris is originally from the UK and has been living and working in China since 2011. Chris is currently the COO at Pixelmatic, a video game studio based in Shanghai.
Chris began his career as a TEFL teacher at a multinational training centre based in Shanghai and was eventually promoted to Operations Director. He was responsible for maintaining the teaching quality of the 50+ mainland China schools. Throughout his career he trained and managed hundreds of TEFL teachers and went on to develop leadership and management training programmes for the academic managers along with online training suites for continuous professional development of the teachers. He co-authored and published a comprehensive kindergarten course, including textbooks, activity books, teachers guides, course guides, and multimedia materials.
