Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

Topic: Picture translation. Lesson: The best reward.  Skills: Listening and speaking. Grade: 5th grade and above.                              Here I am going to introduce a new story teaching technique for teachers to make their teaching process success and interesting. It will turn your normal classroom into a digital classroom as you play a video on the board though you have no projector. It will give definitely great results because the main feature of this technique is moving pictures as per your content. this will give live experience to your students as they are watching a video. I used this technique to teach below paragraph. "Victory to you Maharaja!" said the hunter to Sri Krishnadevaraya with a beautiful parrot in his hands. The king raised his hand and asked him to come near. The hunter went near the king. "This parrot is beautiful", the king said. "Yes, your Majesty! This can be a pleasant company to her Highness, the Maharani."

Lesson: Helen Keller. Class: 5th grade. Skills: Writing and creative expression.                       Writing is one of the biggest challenges for teachers. Because children do not want to write. Especially in second language classrooms, teachers are facing big trouble in giving writing tasks. So teachers need to encourage their learners by assigning interesting writing activities.                       So, I always try to give my learners interesting and engaging writing tasks to stimulate them. They clearly participate more actively when I give them creative tasks. They did this writing task after we had looked at the life of Helen Keller in class and it offered them an opportunity to consolidate their understanding and express a diversity of ideas.

Topic: About your city. Grade: 4th class. Skills: Writing.                Writing is a complex skill to develop and master, focusing on both the end product and the steps to arrive there. Writing skills only develop when young learners are taught how to write and are given opportunities to practice these skills and strategies.                So such visual worksheets help young learners a lot to develop writing skills. Such worksheets and engaging writing tasks are very important, especially for second language learners. I gave this writing task after a lesson "A trip to Horsley Hills" The theme of the lesson is sightseeing. So after this, I asked my learners to write about their city.  Here is the digital lesson transaction. A trip to Horsley Hills Download the Worksheet.

Topic: Story Telling/ Story Transaction Grade: Primary Skills: Creative thinking                    Storytelling is different from Teaching a story. We just describe and explain the characters, situations, and events of the story in the teaching story. Whereas we use storytelling as a strategy for learning as an input for learners. And it enables them, through experience, to learn/acquire the language naturally.                    Stories keep children engaged and let them feel that they are also participating in the process of storytelling. If storytelling is made into an interesting experience and fun-filled activity where the listeners also participate in telling, guessing, and manipulating.                   Here I am going to describe a strategy for storytelling for an interesting transaction. Every story has three major parts, "beginning, middle, and ending." The middle part is the peak and turning point of a story. So the middle part has a problem or suspense.