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1. Creative Thinking Strategies
For
TEACHERS

2. Part one
The creative mindset
What’s
new?
Friend
or foe?
Mood Attitude
Why does it
matter?
Quality questions

3. The Best Way To Start
Thinking Is To Stop Thinking
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4. Get Out Of your Own Way
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5. 3
“I wish I had your skills – all I can
draw is these real people”
Avoid self-sabotaging
your flow

6. Ignore The Naysayers4
Outlandish
Ridiculous
Are there any academic papers to prove that your
idea, which was born just one second ago, has been
approved by the academic community?

7. Cultivate a sense of
WONDER
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Just my imagination

8. Notice
What INSPIRES you
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• Art
• Nature
Music
• Books
• psychology
Poetry • Children
• Mentors
Friends

9. Prime
Your mind
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Brain-friendly
workspace
Stress-free
environment
Use creativity
triggers
Focused to-do
list
User-friendly
Working tools
Inspiring
objectives
Measurable goals Manage flow

10. Embrace counter-intuitive
possibilities
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11. Seek Out Cognitive
Dissonance
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12. Seek Out Challenging
Colleagues
Thinking
beyond
yourself
Neuron
Shock
Inspirational
debate
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13. Carry Yourself over the
Threshold
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14. Fly High With synergy
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which
already lies half asleep in the dawning of your
knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple,
among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but
rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid
you enter the house of his wisdom,
but rather leads you to the threshold
of your own mind.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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15. Develop interests beyond
your field
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• Brain-
friendly
• Intuitive
Creative
• Literature
• Poetry
• What else?
Psychology • Nurturing
• Humanism
Teaching
Values
What
else?

16. Try Something New Every
Day
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New Take
On Old
Me..?
Create & channel
significant
events
to spear-head
lightning
perspectives
When the
normal
becomes
outstanding!
!
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Theodroa’s
group On
Facebook

17. Avoid Re-inventing wheels15
Image credit: disco palace

18. Flirt with both ends of the
spectrum
Constraints
Freedom
Which is more
Brain –friendly? ?
Limitation
or
freedom?
Flirt image by Jenny downing
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Image by nasamarshall

19. Stir Up Deadly Emotional
Cocktails
Image credit: Scott Veg
• Fun
• frustration
Ingredients
Are made up
of
• Surprise
• Anticipation
• Spontaneity
feelings:
5 feelings & event magic
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20. Read & Question
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho
Marx
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21. Cultivate Inspiring Personal
Learning Networks
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Image credit :Thinning walls by Alec Couros
Brain-friendly Communities Online

22. Wild Horses Can’t Catch Me!!
Flying
HIGH.
!!!
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Hey, Slow
down –
NOT;)

23. Part two
Creative Relationships in the
classroom

24. Group Dynamics
Rapport-
building
Environments
Lessons and
courses
FUN LETTING GO LESS IS MORE

25. Part Three
Ways to nurture student creativity, student project
work, thinking skills, social & emotional learning,
and autonomous learning skills for life.
Strategies

26. The Blank canvas;)1

27. Mind mapping2

28. Approaching
Student project work
Social & emotional
Technology & Collaboration
Autonomy & spontaneity
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See social & emotional presentation
Autonomy for teenagers

29. The Disney Creativity
Strategy
By IQ Matrix & Visually
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30. Why We Need Strategies
For Creativity
My Creativity Series
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31. The Dreamer, The Realist &
The Critic
• Create a dream or vision of the whole
film. ( In this case the film is your
vision for learning which is deeply
embedded in your inner teaching
values.)
The
Dreamer
• Look at the plan realistically. (
balance money, time, resources, and
all necessary information.)
The
Realist
• Look at the whole thing again from
the point of view of a critical member
of the audience.
The Critic
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32. Examine this diagram in relation to
yourself as a teacher and your
students as learners.
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33. Special Effects in the
Classroom
Pygmalion
Effect
Pratfall
Effect
The bystander
Effect
• Great Expectations
• Teacher belief
• Mistakes are charming
• Ok to be fallible
• Foster social/emotional
responsibility
• Help them develop a
social conscience
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Limiting & empowering effects for you to leverage

34. Special Effects 2
The Spotlight
Effect
The Focusing
Effect
The snowball
Effect
• Overcome shyness
• Overcome self-
doubt
• Tunnel Vision
• Lack of
perspective
• Small beginning
• Builds upon itself
• Momentum
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Limiting & empowering effects for you to leverage

35. Special Effects 3
The Ripple Effect
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Empowering effects for you to leverage

36. How to ignite the ripple
Effect in class?
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37. ELT & Psychology
Lots of articles about teaching, psychology, and
special effects.
Recommended:
“You are Special”
For encouraging students and ripple effect.
Please read & respect copyright on website.
By Nick Michelioudakis
“I used to have
super human
powers but my
therapist took
them away – now
I know I’m
creative – GIVE
“THEM BACK!!
Quote by Esparta Palma
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38. Visual Design & Multi-media
The importance of visual imagery in materials design
Thoughts on visual design
Story chasers
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39. Dead Questions Reflect dead
Minds
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40. The Art Of Socratic
questioning
Respond
Associate
Agendas
•seek
•connect
•Stimulate
•develop
•inferences
•conclusions
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Detailed article Questioning & exams training

41. Power of Creative
constraints one
In certain types of poetry
constraints can unleash
further creativity.
Constraints force focus &
then provide a chink
through which ideas shoot
out like a laser beam.
Like when the magnifying
glass captures and
intensifies the rays of the
sun and creates fire.
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Acrostic poem
F- ocused
I - nsights
R- oar
E-nergy

42. Power Of Constraints two
Beat The Exam Blues
Transform
transformations
with comics and
multi-media
The whole story
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43. This is a never-ending story
Keep dreaming
Image by diego Da Silva – midsummer night’s dream

44. HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver
light,
The blue and the dim and the dark
cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your
feet:
But I, being poor, have only my
dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
And so it goes on….