Webinar | How to Design Tasks Which Promote Creative Thinking Skills: Part 1
Facilitators
Claire Steele
Claire has worked in EFL/ESL as a teacher, trainer, manager, and consultant worldwide, but mainly in the UK, Australia, Colombia, and Greece. She has always been interested in inspiring students and teachers, so teacher development has always been her area of interest and career path. She’s been very privileged to have worked with teachers all over the world in their contexts. She is interested in student-centered learning, fostering creativity and critical thinking in the classroom, reflective practice, and adapting materials to create a more dynamic and engaging learning experience. She also actively supports inclusive classroom practices for all English teachers and students. She is the co-founder and director of eltonix.
Sarah Smith
Sarah has worked as an EFL/ESL teacher in Senegal, Japan, Ecuador, and Turkey. She was a teacher and mentor in Thailand and France and is now based in Greece where she initially worked as an academic manager and a teacher trainer. Her areas of interest are teacher training and development, reflective practice, student-centered learning, holistic child development, incorporating life skills in the classroom, and encouraging a sense of progress through learning to learn techniques. She is also an advocate for inclusive classroom practices which provide a safe learning environment for all teachers and students. She is the co-founder and director of eltonix.
Introduction
Between April and November 2022, Claire Steele and Sarah Smith from eltonix ran a series of six webinars looking at different aspects of creativity in the language classroom. Alongside the regular webinar schedule, Claire and Sarah gave a monthly 60-minute online workshop on a range of related themes, including:
What is creativity in the classroom?
Task design promoting creative thinking skills - part 1.
Task design promoting creative thinking skills - part 2.
Creative feedback.
Creative ideas for your continuing professional development.
Being creative with low resources.
About This Webinar
Have you ever found yourself staring at coursebook materials and wondering how to make the tasks more creative, engaging, and meaningful for your students? In this second webinar on Creativity, we’ll explore how to promote creative thinking skills in task design.
We first need to know what a meaning-focused task is. Then, we will walk you through the process of creative task design/adaptation by breaking this down into useful steps to help you plan. We will also explore how tasks can encourage creative thought by revisiting the three elements of creativity (please see the first webinar on Creativity for a reminder of these): encouraging students to observe, applying certain constraints, and fostering a sense of wonder and curiosity.
In this informative and practical webinar, session participants will:
Consider the criteria for meaning-driven tasks
Look at how to adapt coursebook materials to encourage creative thought
Learn the steps of planning and creating different task types.
Recorded 26 May 2022
Webinar | How to Design Tasks Which Promote Creative Thinking Skills: Part 1
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