Creative Teaching Case Study

Jack C. Richards describes creativity as having a number of different dimensions: the ability to solve problems in original and valuable ways that are relevant to goals; seeing new meanings and relationships in things and making connections; having original and imaginative thoughts and ideas about something; using the imagination and past experience to create new learning possibilities (Richards, 2013).

Richards (2013) discusses three different dimensions of creative teaching as:

1. Creative teachers are likely to be knowledgeable, confident, committed to helping their learners succeed, non-conformists, familiar with a wide range of strategies and techniques, risk-takers, seekers to achieve learner-centered lessons and reflective.

2. How creative

Characteristics of creative teachers

P’Rayan ( 2014, p. 3) gives a brief definition of creativity: “Creativity is the tendency or ability to generate an idea, act, method, approach or product that has novelty, uniqueness, appropriateness and value and is accepted for inclusion in the domain.”.

P’Rayan ( 2014) enumerates some characteristics of a creative English teacher. “A creative teacher is:

• One who can think on his feet and adapt his teaching to maximize learning in his classes.

• One who is sensitive to and observant of his learners’ needs and adapt methods which would maximize learning.

• One who is able to do or produce something new (fresh ideas, new lessons, new activities, etc.) using one's own intuition.

• One who does not follow the same method of teaching.

• One who attempts to devise new methods of conveying his/her explanations and concepts.

• One who makes adjustments/changes in the lesson plan during the lesson and thinks of different ways to teach the same item.

• One who prepares study material and design activities that kindle students’ imagination and