CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM Cambridge Chaz Pugliese CREATIVE

CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM Cambridge Chaz Pugliese

CREATIVE • • • New Useful Challenging Valuable Surprising Risk-taking

BEING CREATIVE WITH MUSIC v SONG TITLES v INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC v BITS OF MUSIC POETRY v ACROSTIC POEMS v LIMERICKS v FREE VERSE TEXTS PICTURES v STORIES v QUOTATIONS v FAMOUS PEOPLE v PLACES/CITIES v WORKS OF ART

ACROSTIC POEM C R E A T I V E hange isk–taking motion ttitude eacher volvement alue mpathy

PICTURES v v v LIST THE DIFFERENCES LIST THE SIMILARITIES DESCRIBE DRAW / WRITE ACT v WHAT DOES THIS PICTURE REMIND YOU OF? v HOW IS THIS PICTURE BEAUTIFUL? v HOW WOULD YOU CHANGE THIS PICTURE? v WHAT’S NOT IN THE PICTURE? v WHAT KIND OF MUSIC WOULD YOU PLAY FOR THIS PICTURE?

AFFILIATION activities to build a group, to promote a sense of belonging, to create safe, high-trust environment leading to more motivated students and their greater achievement Gossiping In groups of three students, student A and student B „gossip” about student C – say only positive things. Student C listens but does not look at A and B, gives feedback. Think positive Students take a scrap of paper and write down what is distracting them at the moment. After that they scrunch up the piece of paper, teacher takes the waste paper round so that they can throw it to get rid of the cause of their distraction But not at the same time Students do what the teacher tells them to do but the catch is that no two people do it at the same time. For example, students are asked to clap, to jump, to say hello, etc. Feelings The teacher reads out a list of feelings, asks students to choose the ones that describe their current state of mind. Students write sentences I’m feeling. . . because. . Students work in pairs/groups and share.

GETTING READY activities to get the students in a state of readiness and alertness for the lesson Mind games Students do an activity that focuses the mind, e. g. the teacher asks them to work in pairs and take it in turns to say the days of the week (or months of the year) forwards, then backwards. Countdown Students work in pairs, student A counts from 1 to 60, student B counts from 60 to 1. They must do the counting slowly and start and finish at the same time. Cell phone break Before the lesson starts, the teacher gives students two minutes to check their phones, answer the text messages. Left or right Students are asked to do a few tasks but they are only allowed to use their non-dominant hand. They are asked, for example, to draw a circle, to write their name, or to write numbers from 1 to 10.

Ideas and inspiration: Chaz Pugliese Lis Harrison Chris Edgoose My great groupmates in Creativity class Thank you