Catchy Learning Cottage: 05 May 2011

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.

Join Me and I will appreciate it very much if you sign in my guestbook and leave your comments.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Clearer View Of The Nilam Tree

The flowers with numbers pasted on them.Colourful flourecent stickers
will make your job much easier and the product more enhanced.

Now you can see the flowers and the number pasted on each flower.
The number is actually belongs to an individual personnel in my class.
They really take care of their flowers as the flowers and numbers promote
them as active readers.

To answer questions asked and to make the pic clearer, I have cropped and enlarged the original version
of the Nilam tree.
Hope this will help the readers who are interested to share this idea .

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!