Methodology

Speaking/Spoken Interaction

I can evaluate and select creative speaking and interactional activities.

Teaching Storytelling in the Classroom

Heathfield, D. Personal and creative storytelling: telling our stories / D. Heathfield // Creativity in the English language classroom. – London: British Council, 2015. - PP.44-50.

Writing/Written Interaction

• I can evaluate and select a range of creative writing activities.

WORD CLOUD

Listening

• I can design and select different creative activities.

Task: How will you write the ending to the story? Use your imagination

Learning activities: something different // Bringing creative teaching into the young learner classroom. – Oxford: OUP, 2010. – PP. 37-38.

Reading

I can evaluate and select creative reading activities.

My Day

My every day activities are quite routine. They do not differ much from those of any other pupil of our country. My working day begins at 7 o'clock in the morning when I get up. I do my physical jerks, wash, brush my teeth and comb my hair. Then I have breakfast. For breakfast I usually have toasted bread, fried eggs, corn flakes, tea or coffee and some jam.

At ten to eight I leave for school. I go to school five days a week. It takes me twenty minutes to get to school by bus. At school I usually have six or seven lessons. The lessons are over at two o'clock. I return home at three o'clock. I have lunch and take a short rest.I go for a walk with my friends. In spring we play football, in winter we play hockey or ski. I am back at home at a quarter past four. At four thirty I begin to do my home-work. It takes me three hours to do it. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I attend preparatory courses at the University. I leave home, at four thirty and come back at eight thirty.

My parents usually return home at seven o'clock. When I am at home we have dinner at seven thirty. After dinner we go to the sitting-room. There we read books, watch TV, chat with the friends on the phone.

At ten o'clock I take a shower, brush my teeth and go to bed. I fall asleep fast and have no dreams.

A personal map: actions

Grammar

• I can evaluate and select creative grammatical exercises.

Word/letter game

Maria went to Mexico, a country with a mild climate, to mix salad and eat melons.

Burrows, P. A Creative Approach to Teaching Grammar. – London: Bloomsbury Education, 2014. – 100 p.

Vocabulary

• I can evaluate and select creative activities which help learners to learn vocabulary.

Making up poems

Culture

• I can evaluate and select a variety of texts and activities to make learners aware of the interrelationship between culture and creativity.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Swing

Creativity

• I can evaluate and select a set of special creativity facilitating methods (of problem finding, idea producing, analytical and complex groups) in order to encourage learners to develop their creative potential.

Topic "My goals and plans"

Questions for discussion:

What problem am I facing?

How can I best define this problem?

What is my goal and outcome?

What do I seek to achieve by solving this problem?

What is the most effective method of proceeding from this position?

How can I best organize and arrange my thinking to help move me beyond my present circumstances?

Mind Map

William Shakespeare "Hamlet"

• I can provide a creative learning environment (which comprises physical, psychological, virtual and biological spaces)

The creative learning environment in my place of work comprises the physical space:

Premises, furniture and equipment are safe, clean and well maintained;

Facilities are designed or adapted to ensure access and participation by every child in the service and to allow flexible use, and interaction between indoor and outdoor space.

Resources, materials and equipment are sufficient in number, organised in ways that ensure appropriate and effective implementation of the program and allow for multiple uses.

The creative learning environment in my place of work comprises the psychological space:

Critical reflection on children's learning and development, both as individuals and in groups;

Support personal interests;

Encourage emotional answers;

Create playful atmosphere;

The creative learning environment in my place of work comprises the virtual space:

Usage of e-learning technologies;

Availability of different kind of modern IT equipment;

The creative learning environment in my place of work comprises the biological space:

Each child’s health needs are supported;

Each child’s comfort is provided for and there are appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s need for rest and relaxation;

Effective hygiene practices are promoted and implemented;

Each child is protected;

Children are adequately supervised at all times.

Dyslexic Learners in the EFL Classroom: Part 2

• I can establish creative partnerships between my school and outside organisations or/and individuals.

Our school cooperates with GoGlobal organisation.

I would like to collaborate with talanted theatre actors in order to get a professional support in staging performances at school.