Creativity and Enjoying your Teaching

NQT Conference 14 June 2010

Aims

Enjoying your teaching

What is creativity?

Examples of creative teaching and learning

Collaborative Planning

Enjoying your Teaching

What have you enjoyed most about your teaching this year or what have you enjoyed teaching the most?

NIKE Ad 20101.Qui sont les personnages / les vedettes?2.De quoi s’agit-il?3.Quelle est ta partie préférée?

KS3 National Curriculum

1. Key Concepts1.3 Creativity a) Use familiar language for new purposes and in new

contexts. b) Use imagination to express thoughts, ideas,

experiences and feelings4. Curriculum Opportunitiesb) Communicate in the TL for a variety of purposes

(these include real purposes and creative and imaginative work)

Other Key Stages

KS2 Transition – primary school pupils will be arriving in Y7 after 4 years of learning a language for 1 hour a week

KS4 New GCSE Oral component can be customised by schools. Content can be more creative, imaginative and relevant.

What do we mean by creativity? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qh3urEOK8 • A special class of problem solving characterized by novelty• Any thinking process in which original patterns are

formed and expressed.• Fluency , flexibility, originality, and sometimes

elaboration.• The process of bringing something new into being...• Imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the

surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena.

• ... the ability to use different modes of thought to generate new and dynamic ideas and solutions

BLOOMS REVISED TAXONOMY

CreatingCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things

Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

EvaluatingEvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of action

Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging

AnalysingAnalysingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

ApplyingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situation

Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

UnderstandingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or concepts

Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

RememberingRememberingRecalling information

Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

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Creativity is central to innovation.Creativity is central to language learning and hence language teaching. The creative strategies needed when learning a new language or trying to communicate in a foreign language, are transferable skills which are useful in other areas of learners' lives and to society as a whole.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/language-teaching/doc34_en.htm

A. Why do teachers have to be creative in designing lessons and teaching them?

CATER FOR different tastes of different types of students

REDUCE stress of both teacher and students

ENLIVEN (+ENJOY) the lessons and the activities

ADJUST the lessons to different levels of students

TEACH students to think creatively as well

INTEREST students in more exciting activities to practice the target language

VARY the classroom situations to teach functional language

ENCOURAGE the students to communicate more in the target language

Culture

Use of song – starter / l’histoire / language (writing songs)

Poems Adverts Authentic materials Powerful visualsFilm trailers

ExamplesSong for storyline / culture /language / rewriting lyrics Madeleine – Jacques Brel 1.

Poetry for storyline / culture /language / creating poemsDéjeuner du matin - Jacques Prévert 2.

Cross-curricular work / CLIL 1. 2.

Spanish – rainforests + Equador 3.

KS3 – climate change 4.

Current Events World Cup, Earthquake, General Election, Severe WeatherAuthentic Resources - Tintin article – Journal Des EnfantsAdverts 5. Good Visuals – for inspiration and motivationFilms + Trailers

Examples of Own Creative Teaching and Learning

Grammar to teach

Any TenseAdjectives: position and agreementGender + ArticlesNegativesDirect and Indirect Object PronounsComparatives and superlativesPrepositions

MFL ContextsRelationships with family and friendsFree time activitiesShopping and moneyFashion and TrendsHolidaysHome town and local areaThe EnvironmentMy SchoolFuture Career Intercultural understandingCross-Curricular Linking

Be creative!• Inspire your pupils to be creative - use your own ideas,

interests, passions - if you are creative they will be too• Put down your textbook and think• Look for ideas through a variety of resources - authentic,

poetry, song ,literature, ICT• Discuss contemporary issues and current events• Be creative with language and grammar - let pupils

elaborate on key structures • Give pupils the freedom to be creative and develop their

own ideas: STUDENT LED LEARNING• Work with a teacher from another curriculum area to see

how you can link your subjects

But above all …

Make your pupils think and respond to teaching and learning that is interesting, relevant , challenging and enjoyable.