Creative Teacherette

I’m not really a good writer, especially when it comes to creative writing, so it’s no surprise that I hated the lessons in which we had to come up with and write a story or something similar. Free writing is a method that can help your students deal with similar feelings and practice creative writing.  Students are asked to write about something for 5 minutes without break, without thinking about the process, no grammar awareness is needed and it is not graded. They choose whether they are ready to share the written with the others after the 5 minutes have passed.  So the rules are: you continue your writing before the time is up you do not evaluate the quality of the text itself, but just the ideas you ignore the spelling rules after 5 minutes give them one more minute to finish, because good ideas come under pressure At first it might be difficult to write about anything, so you could give them a topic, as simple as “a c...

Hi, everyone! I decided to start writing this blog to share my ideas for creative and interesting teaching. I am a student of English and German Language and Literature at the University of Osijek, Croatia and I'm currently doing a Master degree in Education, so this will be a great way not only to share my ideas, but also to practice my English skills.  I hope some of the methods that I'll present here will be helpful for some of you and although they will mostly be connected to foreign language teaching, many of them could be used for other school subject as well. Please feel free to give suggestions, comments and your ideas and don't hesitate to ask any questions. Looking forward to see what turns out of this blog! :) Regards, Eva