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Part oneThe creative
mindsetWhat’s new?
Friend or foe?
Mood Attitude
Why does it matter? Quality questions
The Best Way To Start Thinking Is To Stop
Thinking
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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?
NoticeWhat INSPIRES you
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• Art• Nature
Music
• Books• psycholog
y
Poetry • Children• Mentors
Friends
Prime Your mind
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Brain-friendly workspace
Stress-freeenvironment
Use creativitytriggers
Focused to-dolist
User-friendlyWorking tools
Inspiringobjectives
Measurable goals Manage flow
Seek Out Cognitive Dissonance
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Challenge
your
Perception
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Carry Yourself over the Threshold
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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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Develop interests beyond your field
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• Brain-friendly
• Intuitive
Creative
• Literature• Poetry• What else?
Psychology
• Nurturing• Humanism
Teaching Values
What else?
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 outstandin
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Theodroa’s group On Facebook
Avoid Re-inventing wheels
Leverage &Transform
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Flirt with both ends of the spectrum
Constraints
Freedom
Which is more Brain –friendly? ?
Limitation or
freedom?
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Stir Up Deadly Emotional Cocktails
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• Fun• frustrationIngredients
Are made up of
• Surprise• Anticipation• Spontaneity feelings:
5 feelings & event magic
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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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Cultivate Inspiring Personal Learning Networks
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Brain-friendly Communities Online
Part Three
Ways to nurture student creativity, student project work, thinking skills, social & emotional
learning, and autonomous learning skills for life.
Strategies
ApproachingStudent project work
Social & emotional
Technology & Collaboration
Autonomy & spontaneity
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See social & emotional presentationAutonomy for teenagers
The Disney Creativity Strategy
By IQ Matrix & Visually
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Why We Need Strategies For Creativity
My Creativity Series
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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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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
Special Effects 2
The Spotlight
EffectThe 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
ELT & PsychologyLots 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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Visual Design & Multi-media
The importance of visual imagery in materials designThoughts on visual design
Story chasers
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The Art Of Socratic questioning
Respond
Associate
Agendas
• seek• connect
• Stimulate• develop
• inferences• conclusions
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Detailed article Questioning & exams training
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- ocusedI - nsightsR- oarE-nergy
Power Of Constraints twoBeat The Exam Blues
Transform transformations
with comics and multi-
media
The whole story
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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….