1. CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM
Cambridge
Chaz Pugliese

2. CREATIVE
New
Useful
Challenging
Valuable
Surprising
Risk-taking

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

4. ACROSTIC POEM
C h a n g e R i s k – t a k i n g E m o t i o n A t t i t u d e T e a c h e r I v o l v e m e n t V a l u e E m p a t h y

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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