Creative methodology:

games, ideas, techniques and web tools

HUPE Karlovac

Anita Joki, prof.

Prva rijeka hrvatska gimnazija
April 2016

CREATIVITY? NOT AGAIN

HOW TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS:

TOP 12 WAYS
If there is one thing we know about
our students, its that they have short
attention spans and prefer to do
things later.
This is especially true at the beginning
of the year.
And at the end.
And in between.
***Obviously, not enough can be said about
parent involvement, but thats a Top 12 list for
another day***
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MOTIVATION
1. Praise Students in Ways Big and Small
2. Expect Excellence
3. Spread Excitement Like a Virus
4.Mix It Up
5. Assign Classroom Jobs
6. Hand Over Some Control
7. Open-format Fridays
8. Relating Lessons to Students Lives
9. Track Improvement
10. Reward Positive Behavior Outside the Classroom
11. PlanDream Field Trips
12. College Fund Accounts
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TODAYS TOPICS
1. Creative methodology quick games and tricks
2.

Whats in a song?
- Tenses
- Unpopular gals
- Ghandi

GROUP WORK

VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY & GRAMMAAR

TEAM WORK

What do people do in their

bathroom?
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TEAM WORK
What do people do in their
bathroom?
74 Take a shower
55 Use the toilette
31 Brush their teeth
21 Sing
17 Put make-up on

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TEAM WORK
Kad pomislite na __________________, ega se najee
sjetite?
Napraviti popis 5 pojmova, a vi napravite svoju listu i
proizvoljno dodijelite bodove.

Predmeti, kljuni pojmovi:

Biologija: sisavci
(posteljica, tobolari, jednootvori, prekriveni dlakom,
zubalo)
Povijest: Peloponeski rat
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(Peloponeski i atenski pomorski savez, Pirej, Potideja,

VOCABULARY

Country

Town/city

Object

Animal

Vegetabl
e

Fruit

Adjective

Verb

Croatia

Capetown

Carpet

Chimpanze
e

Cucumber

Cherry

Cheasy

Compete

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SPEAKING
Having
fun
Cars
Music
Love
Clothes
Weather
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EST TEMA
est tema u est grupa
(rasprava, biljeke, prikupljanje podataka, pitanja kolegama...)
Primjer: hrvatski jezik
- Kraljevo
- Baraka Pet Be
- Gospoda Glembajevi
- Povratak Filipa Latinovicza
- Khevenhiller
- biografija Krlee
- Snijeg
Primjer 2.:
Katelan, Parun, Pupai, Mihali, Slamnig, oljan

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SPEAKING: JUSTIFYING YOUR CHOICE

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OLS SCHOOL INTERNET

Isprintati listove papira sa podacima
Zadati pitanja ili test sa prazninama. Rjeenja
se nalaze na razliitim papirima na razliitim
mjestima po uionici. Jedan po jedan uenik
trae.
Primjeri:
- Hrvatski jezik: biografije,
- Biologija: ivotinjska vrsta,
- Informatika: dijelovi raunala,
- Sociologijaa: drutvena stratifikacija i
diferenciacija...
- Filozofija: Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Lock,
Berkeley, Hume, Spinoza, Leibniz)
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SPEAKING

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SPEAKING

Its the thing

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SPEAKING

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SPEAKING

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DESERT ISLAND

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GAME OF THRONES
Two chairs in front of the blackboard or each of
the rows.
English: (un)countable nouns, (ir)regular verbs,
tenses...
Filozofija: Sokrat, Platon
Biologija: Spuve, arnjaci
Psihologija: Maslow, Rogers
Kemija: kovelentna, vodikova, ionska veza
Sociologija: drutvena uloga, drutveni poloaj
Likovna umjetnost: Rimska, Grka umjetnost

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MOTIVATION

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MOTIVATION

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WORDS, WORDS

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GRAMMAR

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ONLINE RESOURCES
Puzzles
- Word search
- Criss-cross
- Double puzzles
- Math squares
- Mazes
- Letter tiles
- ...
Quick, efficient, great as test, practice, revisions...
Eg.
Capital of UK: _________________________
Flower of England: ________________________
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?
CFID=341245&CFTOKEN=29d8c15248b4db37-1170D2E0-097E28
9CE0-D9631C7FCBFFF9EC

MOVIEMAKER
Converation, two characters
- Sokrat, Aristotel
- Kras i Pompej
- Nora i Helmer
- Sisavac i ptica
- Kopernik i porota
- Dva razliita atoma
- ...

- Super fast and super simple

www.dvolvermovie.com
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WRITE OR DIE

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KAHOOT.IT
Quiz + smartphones
- Answers: photos, video clips, words, sentences, sounds
- Awaard different number of points
- Time for answering

- My students favourite!
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THANK YOU!

Anita Joki, prof.

Prva rijeka hrvatska gimnazija
anitakuduz@gmail.com

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