Creative English Teaching ABC  By胡正芳 Helen Hu 2012/10/20

Our secret magic sentence—“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook .

A creative teacher should know

1. Age

2. Level

3. Class size

4. Physical space required / available

5. Time (30 mins to 2 hours)

6. Structures / topic being studied

7. Students’ interests

8. How to motivate students

9. Why students learn English

A creative teacher should

1. Provide a friendly learning environment.

2. Keep all of the students involved and interested.

3. Encourage students to focus on the use of language rather than on the language itself.

4. Give students various chances to use, learn, practice, or review specific language material.

A Teacher should Get well-prepared

a. lesson plan(2W &3P)

1. warm up

2.presentation

3. practice

4.production

5.wrap up

b. teaching aids

Creative English Teaching  ABC

1. Attitude/ Action/ Activity

2. Believe/ Body Language/ Board Plan / Basic ( Only Basic, No Magic)

3. Classroom Language/ Creative Management/ Communication

4. Drills/ Drawings

5. Evaluation/ Encouragement/Enthusias

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.

6. Four Skills Integrated

7. Grouping /Game list

8.  Homework/Happy at work

9. Interaction/ Instruction

10. Join/ Joyful Learning Environment Motivate Students/

11. Knowledge

12. Lesson Plan/ Learning Corner/ Language Teaching Notes/

13. Methods of teaching/ Meaningful Context

14. Natural Context

15. Open-minded

16. Practice makes perfect /Phonics /Pronunciation

17. Quick Respond

18. Responsible/ Respect/ Repetition

19. Songs and chants/ Sentence patterns/ Storytelling

20. Teaching is learning/ Topics/Timing/Team

21. Unique with style

22. Voice/ Vocabulary/ Visualization “Imagination times vividness equals reality.”

(Imagination，想像力) 乘以V（Vividness，逼真）等於R（Reality，事實）

23. Workshop/Worksheet/ Work together/ Whiteboard

24. Xplanation

25. Yeah! I am the best!

26. Zzz Early to rise, early to bed, make you healthy, wealthy and wise.

Magnet of the life

Do you believe that you are a magnet? In fact, you are. When you love the way you are, when you possess the healthy body and joyful mind, or when you are full of good wills to the lovely world, the beautiful things are attracted by you naturally. On the contrary, when you are pessimistic, having gloomy thoughts toward everything or feeling something wrong all the time, everything negative will continuously come to you as well. Because you are a magnet, you always attract what you believe; you who are happy attract someone happy, something wonderful, some marvelous situations. Because you are a magnet, you who are worried attract someone upset, something bothering or some disappointing situations. Luckiness and misfortune lie in how you use the inherent magnetic force. This is a secret of faith.