Personal Branding/ Design Strategy - The Wild Card - Hope and Wade King

6B2 - Research into how to be a creative and engaging teacher

Notes taken from the book - The Wild Card by Hope and Wade King


You as the teacher are a wildcard. you have the difference to change children's lives. 
Creating lessons that students absorbed in, with joy and delight. 
The delivery method matters. 
Creativity is the key to engagement and engagement makes kids want to come to school. 
Set the stage to engage.
Learning experiences and memorable moments.
Don't compare to anyone else, thief of joy and the enemy of authenticity. 
Finding your own creative style. 
Teachers have uncertain influence in children's lives, unpredictable, full of surprises. 
Inspire and engage every child.
Create magic by using hobbies and interests in the classroom.
Create an environment to support subjects. 
Be unpredictable.
Creativity drives engagement
When you're comfortable you are no longer growing or moving.
Every teacher has an individual why.
Confidence is essential for a creative breakthrough. 
Change requires sacrifice.
Sit with students at lunch, spend time with them. 
Children will want to try harder for you when you care about them. 
Worksheets don't make fir memorable experiences or lifelong learners. 
Changing up delivery methods. 
Real world connections.
Play games where every student takes part, when playing games all children need to be engaged at all times.
Engagement, expectation, environment, empowerment, energy. 
Set your expectations high.
Refocus everyone using call and response. 
Consistency is key.
Relevant.
Visually and emotionally appealing. 
Passions and interests in classroom decor.
Energised and excited. 
Needs to be constantly evolving and changing, grow with you and your students. 
Building relationships and building a classroom family. 
Bring reading to life.
Have brain breaks.
Sharing a but of yourself with your students.
Classroom transformation leads to guaranteed engagement. 

What I've Learnt

Teacher's have the ability to change children's lives and enrich children no matter what background they come from. 

Creativity is extremely important when trying to engage children and engagement is the key to learning and excited, happy children who actually want to and enjoy coming into school every day.

Element of surprise is also important in keeping pupils interested, they should never know what to expect when they walk through the classroom door. 

Classroom displays and transformation leads to guaranteed engagement.

Set the stage to engage. 


Personal Branding

Branding myself as the Creative teacher means that a lot of the aspects discussed in this book need to be communicated through the design and online presence.