Webinar | How to Design Tasks Which Promote Creative Thinking Skills: Part 2
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
In the last webinar, we looked at what a task is and how to adapt coursebook materials to encourage more creative thinking skills. In this webinar, we’ll be taking creativity to the next level!
We will revisit meaning-focused and creative tasks, and what we need to do to make sure we enable both to happen in the classroom. From here we’ll look at how we can use artworks, images, and texts to inspire our students in creative writing and speaking tasks. We’ll even look at how you can get your students to create art for themselves.
In this informative and practical webinar, session participants will:
Revisit the elements of creative task design (meaning-focused and creative)
Learn how to use artworks, images, and texts to generate creative spoken and written output
Get your students to create art in the classroom
Recorded on 30 June 2022
Webinar | How to Design Tasks Which Promote Creative Thinking Skills: Part 2
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