1. Creativity in Teaching English Reading and Writing The Royal Thai Distance Learning Foundation with support from the American Embassy RELO Office and TOT

2. What is in the box? Review: Session 1 What did you discuss in the previous session?

3. Prior experience Assumptions Belief systems Completed ideas Pre-determined solutions What someone says is ‘right’ or ‘true’ Review: Session 1

4. Classroom Applications Review: Session 1 What did you do in your classes? What worked? What didn’t work? What did you do to make it work?

5. P O E T R Y LEASE PEN THE BOX. NJOY HE JOURNEY. EADY OURSELF. Welcome to Session 2

6. Word Splash! With a partner, look at the following picture carefully. Write as many words with 1-3 syllables as you can in 2 minutes.

8. Word Paint! With the same partner, pick FIVE of the words that best conveys the meaning of the picture. What do you feel? see? taste? hear? smell? What does it remind you of?

9. Haiku Japanese form of poetry 17 syllables (5-7-5) and a Kigo* (‘season’) nature, feelings, experiences, every day things imagery & senses As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the Buds blooming in May UCLA Asia Institute What senses are awakened in the haiku above?

10. What picture do you see in your head when you read this? An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, An old silent pond... splash! Silence again. by Matsuo Basho

11. Which word or words help(s) you paint this picture in your head? What do you think this is about? Why? An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. by Matsuo Basho Painting A Mental Picture

12. YOUR TURN On your own or with a new partner, write a haiku inspired by the following picture. form contentlanguage compact & meaningful precise & simple

14. How can you find your voice as a writer?

15. EXPERIENCE and VOICE engaging and reshaping observing the world transformation and innovation (Grainger, Goouch, Lambirth) multimodal and multicultural autonomy and choice

16. Unfinished Haikus With a partner, complete the missing lines of haikus in your handout. Please prepare to share it.

17. Exquisite Haikus Groups of three people. Each write a specific haiku line. Don’t show it. After all are done and put together, does it make sense? Why or why not?

18. Experience & Voice Your Thoughts Writing poetry is.... because.... This helps me with my language because... This helps me with my creativity because...

19. What are some new ideas and perspectives have you learned? What can you adapt and apply to your overall teaching? What will you try in your classrooms soon? Teaching Implications

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