Critical and creative thinking are needed by teachers - some activities in this short presentation may be useful to trainers You can watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KocJT2HKtnE

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Developing creative & critical
thinking skills in teachers in
training
IATEFL 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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Critical
Thinking
Creative
Thinking
Teacher
Thinking

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According to the World Economic Forum priorities are changing

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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
dialogue
You were seen gluing shoes on the door outside
your classroom before a grammar lesson

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CLT PPP
TBL
SW
LA
CLL
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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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
http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/2jsTAqKoi1h

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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 taxonomy
And some more
Critical
Thinking
Creative
Thinking

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•Practise•Try out
•Share•Learn
Curate Connect
PersevereChallenge

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Diigo Pinterest Scoop.it
http://bit.ly/Ru3JoP

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

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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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Email
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Twitter
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CELT Athes
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Blogs
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blogs.org/
http://cambridgedelta.org/
http://cambridgecelta.org/
http://eltchat.org/wordpress/
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