Creative Teaching Pocketbook
Published on 16. September 2015
128 pages
978-1-908284-79-2 (ISBN)
Description
All teachers look to deliver inspiring, innovative and imaginative lessons. What better way to engage students and help them learn more effectively? Roy Watson-Davis draws on a deep well of creativity and on his experience as an AST and mentor to share numerous suggestions for original, inventive approaches to lessons. Use his ideas as starting points for your own brain waves, or import and adapt them for your own classroom. As well as creative starters, 'kernels' and closers, sections of the book are devoted to questioning technique, active learning, technology, revision and teamwork. Roy aims to stimulate and support creative practice by challenging you to move out of your comfort zones: try pegging maths equations across your room washing-line-style, or adopting 'the fruit bowl approach', or how about delivering a lesson in costume? Take the plunge, recharge your batteries and watch your students' enthusiasm increase.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright Notice
- Enjoy the read!
- Title page
- Publisher
- C o n t e n t s
- Foreword
- C h a l l e n g e Y o u r C o m f o r t Z o n e s
- Slap yourself in the face with a fish
- Classroom environment
- Three principles for creative planning
- How you can set up a sense of narrative
- Share marking criteria
- Key questions to ask yourself
- Key trigger for creative outcomes
- Where are you now?
- S t a r t i n g O u t
- Setting the tone of a lesson
- Shocking!
- Two simple starter activities
- Using text and key instructions
- Engaging the students with the starting activity
- Creative ways to use a lesson title
- Using homework as an active starter
- Using homework to build a lesson
- A s k i n g t h e R i g h t Q u e s t i o n s
- Get your students to Bloom
- Using Bloom's taxonomy to develop work
- Using Bloom to create ladders for learning
- Using activities linked to Bloom
- Avoiding pitfalls
- Powerful words
- Student skills development
- A c t i v e L e a r n i n g
- Creating an Active Learning Environment
- When and why
- Using TV as a model
- Using script writing and role-play
- Find inspiration in quiz shows
- Working with character cards
- Angry hats and empathy glasses
- Whose round is it?
- Convert the work
- M a k i n g T e c h n o l o g y W o r k f o r Y o u
- From chalkboard to interactive whiteboard
- Engaging students with videos/DVDs
- Student interaction with a video/DVD
- Filming and role-play
- Using computers
- Using overhead projectors
- Digital cameras
- Making 'new' technology work for you
- Virtual Learning Environments
- Virtual classrooms
- Yacapaca and Googledocs
- Googledocs
- Mobile Phones
- YouTube
- Interactive whiteboards/data projectors
- Podcasts
- Afterword
- C r e a t i v e L e s s o n I d e a s
- Creative kernels
- The deliberately obscure game
- The lite lesson approach!
- Big it up
- Quizzicals
- Board games, not bored students!
- Let's Predict
- Examine it
- That gets my vote
- Yes, no, don't know
- Working groups
- Creative Brainstorming
- Brainstraining
- Plenaries
- Plenaries to help literacy
- Connecting with the next lesson
- R e v i s i o n A i d s
- Effective revision modelling
- Mind pegs
- Mind pegs in action
- Mind pegs and numbers
- Mind pegs and dates
- Ideas to help visual learners
- Ideas to help auditory learners
- Ideas to help kinaesthetic learners
- Colour coding
- Planning revision timetables
- Cut them off in their prime
- B u i l d i n g a S e n s e o f T e a m w o r k
- Pulling together
- Working with the students
- Engaging students with assessment
- Peer teaching
- Thinking about success
- Using students' work
- Tasks to build teamwork
- Resource banks
- Working creatively with colleagues
- Working with outside agencies
- Forums for sharing good practice
- Peer observation
- Moderating students' work
- The use of opposites
- Checklist
- Bibliography
- About the author
- Order form
- Title listings
