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Teaching in Pursuit of Wow! Collaboratively Learning and Creating! ... And Teaching!

Tim Murphey [email protected] Murphey [email protected]

GETA: GETA: Global English Teachers Association Global English Teachers Association

"Towards Creativity in ELT: Issues and Directions” Nov. 22, 2014

I’mCollaboratively Energizing My Imagination

(with you)

Col LA bxra TIVE ly EN er GI zing MY i MA gi NA tion

CollaborativelyEnergizing

My Imagination

1. Chunking2. Back Formation3. Rhythm4. Song5. Tie to Routine Day

What are you doing now?

What is the difference between learning

and creativity?

One general distinction from most people:

We learn about something old that is already known.

and

Creativity – oriented toward the new,something we do not yet know

What are you doing now?

Creating

LearningLearning

Teaching

CLTTLC

Over lapping co-constructed Concepts

Learning (and teaching) are creating something new in your mind!

example:

With this piece of information

“Tim once lived in Switzerland”

Are you learning?Or Are you imagining?Or Are you creating? Or Are you doing all three?

Kevin Stein: Phil, it's funny. We were just talking tonight about how a lot of the time we endup tweaking activities because we can't really understand what the heck the person wrote in the first place. So our half formed idea of the activity, just to make it work in class, needs a huge dash of our own imagination.

Facebook Posting Nov 17, 2014On a teacher’s facebook/ iTDi blog

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (talking about Flow)P. 5, 6 in the postscript of Creativity: the psychology Of discovery and invention (1996/2013)

Twenty five years before I began to write theselines , I made a discovery that took all the intervening time for me to realize I had made [it]. To call it a “discovery” is perhaps misleading, for people have been aware of it since the dawn of time.

Yet the word is appropriate, because even though my finding itself was well known, it had not been described or theoretically explained by the relevantbranch of scholarship, which in this case happens tobe psychology. So I spent the next quarter-century investigating this elusive phenomenon.

The Advantages of seeing Learning and Teaching

as Creating!

1. Makes learning/teaching more exciting!

2. Motivates learners/teachers more!

3. Is a truer description of what happens!

4. Can put us all in a state of awe and flow!

5. Creates more respect for what we do!

6.Turns the classroom into a creativity lab!

7. Gives us permission to experiment and fail, and improvise!

8. Makes learners into teachers and teachers into learners.

What are you doing now?...

Four Out of the Box Ideas

1. Information is overrated. Considering questions are at the heart of learning and creativity.

2. Success is overrated. Challenge is what we crave and what makes us creative.

3. Listening to teaching/telling is overrated.Doing teaching/telling deepens learning and creates meanings.

4. Creating and Learning and Teaching can often be synonymous. And this understanding has advantages for teaching and learning.

Ask your partners: Whatcha doin’ now? Suzi

Suzi

Suzy

Four Out of the Box Ideas with Suzy

1. Information is overrated. Considering questions are at the heart of learning and creativity.

2. Success is overrated. Challenge is what we crave and what makes us creative.

3. Listening to teaching/telling is overrated.Doing teaching/telling deepens learning and creates meanings.

4. Creating and Learning and Teaching can often be synonymous. And this understanding has advantages for teaching and learning.

Whatcha doin’ now?

Health HappinessLearning Teaching Creating

Love 2.0Barbara Fredrickson:Micro moments of connection, positivity resonance

Power PosingAmy Cuddy - tetosterone up, cortizon down

YSB – Sing it.

I’m Young Strong and BeautifulI’m living an adventure

The world’s so fascinatingIt makes me wanna cryI wanna cry to the world

I wanna fly all aroundI wanna tell everybody

I'm in love x6I wanna tell everybody I'm in love

Power Posing = increase in testosteroneTHE CONFIDENCE HORMONE

Small Posing = Increase in cortisone The STRESS HORMONE

Amy Cuddy – TED.com pres

YES!

I’M IN LOVE!!!!

I’M IN LOVE!!!!

Wilga Rivers wrote in her 1976 book,

"We need not be tied to a curriculum created for another situation or another group. We must adapt, innovate, improvise, in order to meet the student where he is and channel his motivation” (p. 96).

Rivers, W. (1976). Speaking in many tongues: Essays in foreign-language teaching. Rowley,Mass.:Newbury House

And I know of no better

Ionell Jay Terogo’s ClassPower Pose of Love

I’M IN LOVE!!!!Happy

2015!!!

I’m Young Strong and BeautifulI’m living an adventure

The world’s so fascinatingIt makes me wanna cryI wanna cry to the world

I wanna fly all aroundI wanna tell everybody

I'm in love x6I wanna tell everybody I'm in love

Kamsamida

What are you doing now?