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Creative Thinking Strategies For TEACHERS

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Creative Thinking Strategies For

TEACHERS

Part oneThe creative

mindsetWhat’s new?

Friend or foe?

Mood Attitude

Why does it matter? Quality questions

Get Out Of your Own Way

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“I wish I had your skills – all I can draw is these real people”

Avoid self-sabotaging your flow

Ignore The Naysayers4

Outlandish

Ridiculous

Are there any academic papers to prove that your idea, which was born just one second ago,

has been approved by the academic community?

Cultivate a sense of WONDER

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Just my imagination

NoticeWhat INSPIRES you

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• Art• Nature

Music

• Books• psycholog

y

Poetry • Children• Mentors

Friends

Prime Your mind

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Brain-friendly workspace

Stress-freeenvironment

Use creativitytriggers

Focused to-dolist

User-friendlyWorking tools

Inspiringobjectives

Measurable goals Manage flow

Embrace counter-intuitive possibilities

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Yin Yan

Seek Out Cognitive Dissonance

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Challenge

your

Perception

s

Seek Out Challenging Colleagues

Thinking beyond yourself

Neuron

Shock

Inspirational

debate

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Carry Yourself over the Threshold

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Fly High With synergy

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your

knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his

wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom,

but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”

― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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Develop interests beyond your field

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• Brain-friendly

• Intuitive

Creative

• Literature• Poetry• What else?

Psychology

• Nurturing• Humanism

Teaching Values

What else?

Try Something New Every Day

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New Take On Old Me..?

Create & channel

significant events

to spear-head lightning

perspectives

When the normal

becomes outstandin

g!!

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Avoid Re-inventing wheels

Leverage &Transform

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Stir Up Deadly Emotional Cocktails

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• Fun• frustrationIngredients

Are made up of

• Surprise• Anticipation• Spontaneity feelings:

5 feelings & event magic

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Read & Question

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

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Wild Horses Can’t Catch Me!!

Flying

HIGH.!!!

20Hey, Slow down – NOT;)

Part twoCreative Relationships in the

classroom

Group Dynamics

Rapport-building

Environments

Lessons and

courses

FUN LETTING GO LESS IS MORE

Part Three

Ways to nurture student creativity, student project work, thinking skills, social & emotional

learning, and autonomous learning skills for life.

Strategies

The Blank canvas;)1

Mind mapping2

ApproachingStudent project work

Social & emotional

Technology & Collaboration

Autonomy & spontaneity

3

See social & emotional presentationAutonomy for teenagers

The Disney Creativity Strategy

By IQ Matrix & Visually

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The Dreamer, The Realist & The Critic

•Create a dream or vision of the whole film. ( In this case the film is your vision for learning which is deeply embedded in your inner teaching values.)

The Dreamer

•Look at the plan realistically. ( balance money, time, resources, and all necessary information.)The

Realist

•Look at the whole thing again from the point of view of a critical member of the audience.The

Critic

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Examine this diagram in relation to yourself as a teacher and your

students as learners.7

Special Effects in the Classroom

Pygmalion Effect

Pratfall Effect

The bystander

Effect

• Great Expectations• Teacher belief

• Mistakes are charming• Ok to be fallible

• Foster social/emotional responsibility

• Help them develop a social conscience

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Limiting & empowering effects for you to leverage

Special Effects 2

The Spotlight

EffectThe Focusing

Effect

The snowball Effect

• Overcome shyness

• Overcome self-doubt

• Tunnel Vision• Lack of

perspective• Small beginning• Builds upon

itself• Momentum

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Limiting & empowering effects for you to leverage

Special Effects 3

The Ripple Effect10

Empowering effects for you to leverage

How to ignite the ripple Effect in class?

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ELT & PsychologyLots of articles about teaching, psychology, and

special effects.

Recommended:

“You are Special”

For encouraging students and ripple effect.

Please read & respect copyright on website.

By Nick Michelioudakis

“I used to have super human

powers but my therapist took them away –

now I know I’m creative – GIVE “THEM BACK!!

Quote by Esparta Palma

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Dead Questions Reflect dead

Minds14

The Art Of Socratic questioning

Respond

Associate

Agendas

• seek• connect

• Stimulate• develop

• inferences• conclusions

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Detailed article Questioning & exams training

Power of Creative constraints one

In certain types of poetry constraints can unleash

further creativity.

Constraints force focus & then provide a chink

through which ideas shoot out like a laser beam.

Like when the magnifying glass captures and

intensifies the rays of the sun and creates fire.

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Acrostic poem

F- ocusedI - nsightsR- oarE-nergy

Power Of Constraints twoBeat The Exam Blues

Transform transformations

with comics and multi-

media

The whole story

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This is a never-ending story

Keep dreaming

Image by diego Da Silva – midsummer night’s dream

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under

your feet:But I, being poor, have only my

dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

And so it goes on….