Design Strategy -Teaching - Becoming a Creative Teacher

6A2 6B2 - Research into how to be the best teacher, what I can bring when I begin teaching. 

• Become a Knowledgable Teacher
•  Creative teachers bring more to class than just a knowledge of teaching. They are educated in other areas, and can draw on their experiences and outside interests.
• Connect with other teachers.
• Inspiration rubs off and will create in you the desire to imitate these teachers in your daily teaching practices.
• Become a collector of teaching ideas.
• Curation will also help you to be more resourceful, you'll have ideas and activities at your fingertips in case things go wrong.
• Share your learning. 
• Start a teaching journal or a blog. The act of blogging and describing your teaching ideas generates conversations with other teachers, and those conversations stimulate more ideas; they are a great bridge to creative teaching.
• Remove the blocks to creative thinking.
• Practise your creativity.
• Start experimenting and reflecting on you teaching.
• Learners respond positively to teachers who don’t follow the same old steps in the same old way day in and day out. As much as learners like teachers who are patient, tolerant and able to explain things well, they appreciate teachers whose lessons have surprises and elements of fun.
• Make creativity a daily goal. 
• Being creative can help you solve problems. This is useful to teachers because problem-solving is what teachers do every moment of their working day, from deciding on teaching materials, procedures and grades, to adapting an activity that learners are not responding to, and helping individuals who are not progressing as they should.