Essay On Smart Creative Teacher

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Teaching is one of those careers where you learn something new every day, and many cite this as one of the main things they hope to get out of their career. In today’s ever changing world it becomes even more essential for a teacher to keep reinventing herself. In an effort to transform myself from a nominal teacher to a smart creative teacher one of the first things I need to do is a SWOT analysis for myself and understand which areas need to be enhanced further. From there it is important to take a systematic approach and address the six major competencies to become a smart creative teacher.
Deep subject knowledge.
A teacher is most likely to be well versed in her subject but a smart creative teacher needs to go beyond being just an expert …show more content…

one needs to make creativity part of your daily routine rather than an occasional activity.
• Look at everything you do with a critical eye and consider how your lessons could be made more motivating, productive and interesting for your learners.
The passion to ignite creativity in students.
• In seeking to become a smart creative teacher one needs widen your understanding of your own creativity, and the imaginative approaches and repertoire of engaging activities that you can employ in order to develop the children’s capacity for original ideas and action.
• Another strategy is the frequent use of open-ended questions, the promotion of speculation and the generation of possibilities, teachers who reflect back questions asked of them will be developing a more generative and open stance in children. There are many ways in which creative teachers use metaphor, anecdote and analogy to promote connection making.
A good thinker
Those who embrace good thinking as a lifestyle understand the relationship between their level of thinking and their level of progress. They also realize that to change their lives, they must change their

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