“Articulating Teachers”

Vision and Innovative

Ideas to generate the

GENIUS
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The vision or mission is the starting point for
strategic plans, objectives and metrics.

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 Innovation must have a purpose.
It is up to the leader to set the course and give a
bearing for the future. ...
Once you have established a vision that is
inspiring you can ask people
to be creative and innovative in moving towards it.

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 INNOVATIVE
TEACHING
METHODS

What is innovation ?
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 “something new”
“a new method or device”

Why innovate?…
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 Innovation
in
the
Classroom
=
A vehicle for Progress

How can I get my students to….

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Think?

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 PBL
PROBLEM
BASED
LEARNING

So what is
problem based learning…
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Learners are engaged by problems which are….

open ended
meaningful
aligned to the curriculum…

?… .
s w ork
ro c e s
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Problem-Solving Process

   
• problem defined
• information shared
 
• think tank
 
• selectt best solutions
• evaluation
 

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 PBL in practice
Spaghetti Bridge

Result reflects practicality and academia

BUT…
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 Why
use
Problem
based
Learning?
PBL creates….
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Transferable skills

With a purpose….
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PBL prepares students to
think critically and analytically,
and to find and use appropriate
learning resources.

And there's more….

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 With
PBL
students
Experience

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 I= Inspiration

Innovation creates
motivation + impulse +momentum.
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 Clarification

Students formulate questions

What am I trying to achieve, say, solve ?

Where could this idea take me?
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 Evaluation

Students evaluate their own and their

peers work

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 Distillation

Students choose The best ideas

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 Incubation

Students learn to work on problems

within a designated time-frame and
group setting.
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 Perspiration

Students learn that Perspiration requires:

positivism,persistence,commitment, engagement and
early response to any shortcomings.
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six aspects of PBL…

Inspiration
Clarification
Evaluation
Distillation
Incubation
Perspiration
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WAYS FOR TEACHER TO NURTURE
THE CREATIVE
GENIUS
IN THEIR STUDENTS.
• Foster a Question-Friendly Environment. ...

• Practice Generating More Ideas. ...

• Encourage New Skills. ...

• Model Creativity in the Classroom. ...

• Use the Jigsaw Classroom Method.

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1.Foster a Question-Friendly Environment
a. Help students develop the habit of asking “why”
questions about information, ideas, and beliefs normally
taken for granted.

b. Instead of dissuading him or her to stop questioning,

reward the questioning and promote an environment of
openness so more students feel less afraid to speak up.

c. Encouraging this type of behavior might require more

teaching time, but it will nurture a childlike sense of
wonder as your students learn and grow.
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2. Practice Generating More Ideas
• Allocate fixed time towards creativity for students with Genius Hours,
like Google does for their employees.

• Creativity is a muscle that grows stronger and more efficient the more
we exercise generating ideas.

• The more ideas we come up with, the more original the ideas generated
will be.

• The more ideas we come up with, the greater our chances of producing
a work of success.

• Passive creativity isn’t the only source of “eureka moments.” Actively

generating ideas helps you produce better ideas that you’re more likely
to act on.
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3. Encourage New Skills
• It’s great for students to major in a singular field, whether it’s
science, math or art. To foster new ideas and a unique perspective,
however, encourage them to learn a variety of skills and subjects.

• The more unrelated the field, the better.

For example, the scientists of the future would be wise to
take coding lessons, guitar lessons, tennis lessons and 
painting lessons.

• Learning different methods and practicing new skills not only

engages different parts of the brain, but it inspires cross-pollination
of ideas from one domain to the other.
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4. Model Creativity in the Classroom
• To help students unleash more creativity, lead by example, and
openly share your original ideas with the class.

• Model what it looks like to be open to feedback and bounce ideas

off of one another.

• Great ideas don’t always make sense to everyone at first.

Even The Lion King went through multiple iterations with Disney’s
producers until the writers eventually reframed it as the story of 
Hamlet but with lions.

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5. Use the Jigsaw Classroom Method

• When assigning classroom activities, allow students to

do some work on their own.

• Doing individual work not only prevents groupthink, but

it also facilitates student participation and helps them
value their peers’ strengths more.

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 THE CHALLENGE
“What our children and young people learn during
their time at school has never been more
important yet, at the same time, the task of
determining what that learning should be has
never been more challenging.”

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IMPORTANCE OF 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLING?
 deeper conceptual understanding

 connected and coherent knowledge

 authentic knowledge in context

 creativity and problem solving

 learning in collaboration and to collaborate

 ethics and values

 personal agency
Move from what students should be learning towards what they
should become?
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CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY
What skills do teachers need for the 21st century?

‘A teacher needs to be able to formulate,

construct, arrange, modify and make sense of
information so that it understood as
knowledge.’

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 CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY
How can teachers address student performance issues?

‘It’s interesting the race-game of performance.

It’s always an issue for teacher education and
for education overall, but you have to ask the
question: what is the race for?’

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 CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY
Can we learn from our overseas contemporaries?

‘‘It’s working towards not a product but an

actual kind of engagement of knowledge. That’s
the kind of learning space we’re moving into,
rather than understanding or
compartmentalizing knowledge in very specific
ways that don’t necessarily relate to another
space.’
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CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY
What will 21st century teaching look like?

‘Will there no longer be classrooms? Will there

be schools? Will there be virtual schools or
travelling schools or will students actually have
learning passports that they move around with
and make choices and will families be the ones
that make those choices?’

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ea to move Vision & Innovation forwa
1. Have a clear vision.
2. Model what you want to see.
3. Break it down into smaller steps. ...
4. Help people move from their “Point A” to their “Point B”.
5. Work with people 1-on-1.
6. Promote champions.
7. Share, share, share!
8. Model and promote risk taking.

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THE END
Thank You…

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