Keeping Kids Creative

Dear Readers,

We have all heard the buzzwords of the knowledge-based economy - creative, innovative, resourceful.We are told that our students will need these abilities, not just facts and figures, to thrive in the workplace of the future. And we,their teachers, need to equip them through creative teaching. Hence, here I try to unravel the nuts and bolts behind these ideas, to find out what creative teaching is all about and how it can be implemented in the classroom.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

The NILAM Trees Project

The NILAM trees project is actually an idea to encourage the reading habits among students.They compete among them fairly and practise the win-win situation in the classroom.

Each student who read 5 books will get a flower and he/she may stick his/her number on the flower. Then the students will have the privilage of choosing where to paste their flowers on the prepared column. May they be on the branches,roots or even scatter on the ground together with the green grass. They make their own choice.


 By the end of the year, the King and Queen Readers will be chosen from the students who read the most. And of course, undeniablly interesting  prizes await.


Care to try ? Your students might like this idea but you readers might have to work extra miles to prepare the column and the flowers, as well as the numbers. Quite hectic and handful but you wont regret doing it, I bet!
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Sophyta said...

Was this done in the classroom or your SAC? If I're to plant these trees in classes, I've to compete for spaces with other subject teachers...
Great ideas! I love all the trees, flowers and grass...very artistic! You're very talented, my dear Mas.

May 5, 2011 at 10:00 PM

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