International Workshop on Methodology of

TEFL

How to be Creative
English Teacher
Moch Nur Arifin
Faculty of Education and Teacher Training
IAIN SMHMoch
Banten
Nur Arifin, 2015

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1. Clear Target and Context

Our students will easily understand what they
learn if their minds and imaginations fully
engaged. We have found that involving children
in a range of creative activities before reading
the text means that they are fully prepared,
and excited, about the reading journey ahead
of them. Through painting, music composition,
a film project, in role drama or sculpture, the
kids have had a chance to share vocabulary,
ideas and concepts which gives their reading
fresh meaning and purpose

2. Let Student Show off

their works
What you teach both reading and
writing should be focus and
contextual. How you teach children
what you and your student do not
know the target and purpose.

3. Appropriate
Strategy
Teaching students english skill is not easy.
Teaching reading, for instance, it's hard to
know what reading skills need to be taught,
and when. We ensure that specific reading
strategies are modelled explicitly to the class;
this provides children with a holistic bank of
skills to draw upon. This could include
scanning a text, making an inference,
predicting or creating a mental image. Our
teachers use 'think aloud' statements to
model to the children how these skills are
used, and how they can help them become
better readers. These strategies are then

4. Let Student Show off their

works
It is very effective to let the students
show off their works, like poems,
poetry, paper, project report, stories,
etc. by publishing them or
rewarding.

5. Inspiring Environment and

Activity
Make you classroom inspire your
students with many ways, like
displaying students creatives,
exciting array of reading materials;
newspapers, classic texts, reference
books as well as childrens own
published stories.

6. Integrate Art and ICT in the

Classroom
The use of drama is such a powerful tool.
Taking the lead from our drama specialist,
all teaching staff use a range of
techniques to promote the exploration of
characters, situations and historical
events. This process expands the pupils'
imaginations, and provides them with the
ideas they need to give their writing that
extra spark and flair.
Vedeos, Projectors, computers etc.

7. Encourage Sensible Risks

Many kids are so afraid of failure that
theyre unwilling to take risks in how
they approach learning new things.
Help assuage that fear by
encouraging smart risk-taking, which
can help students to make new
breakthroughs, think outside the box,
and grow as individuals.

8. Teaching Grammar
Creatively
Grammar cannot be taught as a stand alone
activity. What's the point of that? Children
begin to understand grammar concepts, and
start to apply them in their own writing, when
they start to read with a writer's mind.
Punctuation rules and techniques are drawn
from shared texts; texts which the children
have already been immersed in and have a
good understanding of. Exploring these, and
embedding them creatively is how the
learning takes place.

9. Let Them free and Make Any

Surprises
Giving students indepent time for
learning is of important thing for their
brain development. Teachers of English
should free them in their activity, but
still have focus.
Sometimes, teacher should make any
surprising thing for them.

10. Share your Creative Spirit

for Others

Teacher is not the only person

in the classroom. To open share
time with everyone who has
ideas and creative activities is
a compulsory for English
teachers.