Hassim MATE 37th conference 1 feb. 2017

By: Mohammed Hassim, ELT Supervisor, Taroudant, Morocco.

mohammed.hassim@gmail.comhttp://mohammedhassim.wixsite.com/edu-resources

Creativity and Innovation in Adverse Conditions:

Is It Possible?”

MATE 37thAnnual Conference30 January - 02 February, 2017

Agadir, Morocco.

1. What are the real problems? 2. The classroom and the school? 3. The class size and the students? 4. The teaching materials? 5. In-service training? 6. Which perspective of reality? 7. What are the right big questions? 8 . Where is the teacher’s reform? 9. Education is the field of the impossible? 10. Learners/Teachers of the past are not those of today 11. Let’s go beyond our competencies through creativity

and innovation

Introduction

Imagine you are alone in a boat with a large hole in the bottom. Sharks are swimming around you on all sides and the boat is sinking fast. How do you survive?

Thinking out of the box: Critical thinking, Reflective teaching, Creativity & Innovation

1. What are the real problems?

Based on the story of the man, the sea, the sinking boat and the sharks, imagine the man is a teacher:

What might be the other elements in the story represent in a teaching and learning context as challenges and

obstacles?

2. The classroom and the school.

3. The class size and students..

4. The teaching materials.

5. In-service training.

6. Which perspective of realityare you looking from?

Pictures from the latest MATE CIRCLEs National Festival,

Rabat, 20-22 May, 2016:

- What can you see?

- Which/Whose reality is that?

6. Reality is the same but perspectives and attitudes differ: Newton and the apple

Millions saw the apple fall, only Newton asked why.

Millions saw the apple fall, only Newton asked the question. Newton made the most telling remark on the process of thought that has ever been encountered. It is also the simplest. When asked how he had come upon his theory of gravity, he said, ’By thinking on it continuously.’ 'Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground,' thought he to himself. 'Why should it not go sideways, or upwards, but constantly to the earth's centre? Assuredly, the reason is, that the earth draws it. There must be a drawing power in matter.’

7. What are the right big questions?

The education pyramid

8. Where is the teacher’s reform?

The Student’s Project

The Ministry’s Reform

The Educational System

8. Where is the teacher’s reform?

9. Education is the field of the impossible.

Students productions at the CIRCLEs festival.

10. Learners of today are not learners of the past; neither are teachers of today

11. Let’s go beyond our competencies through creativity and innovation

MATE Educational laboratory for Innovative Teachers of English (ELITE)

Teacher’s E-portfolio1. http://missyoussefi.wixsite.com/msyoussefi

2. http://zainasmare20.wixsite.com/mysite3. http://mariambell.wixsite.com/english/school-year-calendar

4. http://mohammedhassim.wixsite.com/edu-resources

Thanks for your attention.

Questions & comments are welcome.