5 Strategies to Encourage Creativity in the TEFL Classroom

Encouraging your students to be creative is fun.

Often ‘creativity’ becomes just a buzzword for teachers to add to a pile of things we should teach. So often we’re told to teach things like resilience, creativity, critical thinking, growth mindset, that we wonder how we’re ever meant to teach what we’re paid to teach - language.

I want to persuade you that with creativity, it’s possible to do both.

Start by playing with language

Think of a time when you’ve played with language.

Maybe you’ve made up ...