Goal 21: Encourage Creativity in the classroom…and beyond! #30Goals

Creativity beyond the classroom walls can be achieved!

Take 5 min and listen to my podcast for today…

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I love to laugh! It’s part of my “creative spirit! Are you sharing your creative spirit with your students? How can you re-energize your work as an educator and make consistent strides to infuse your lessons with creative opportunities? Get started!

Here are three links that have great resources focused on creativity in the classroom…and beyond!

http://www.buzzle.com

http://www2.scholastic.com

http://www.edutopia.org/creativity

Goal: Make an effort to keep a focus of creative ways to instruct and do daily/weekly lessons with your students! How will you do it? When will you do it? Don’t wait…get started! Share it with a colleague.

Quote:Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ” ~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Challenge: 1) Join The Teacher Mentoring Project on The EduPLN. 2) Support new teachers at Edutopia.org by responding to their questions and concerns. 3)  Make consistent strides daily to infuse your lessons with creative opportunities and share your ideas with a fellow teacher.

Did you reflect on this goal? Please leave a comment that you accomplished this goal by either posting your own video reflection on YouTube, using the hashtag #30Goals, posting on the 30 Goals Facebook group, adding a post to the 43 Things web/mobile app, or adding a comment below! Feel free to subscribe to The 30 Goals podcast!

Keep an eye out for the book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators, that will be published by Eye on Education in the Fall of 2011!

Thanks for joining me on The 30 Goals Challenge Journey…

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Wife. Mom. Educator. Author. She started her career as an elementary school teacher in Southern California. In this role as teacher, she assisted with a grant project and became the Project Director of a Language and Literacy program. Read more

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