The Creative Art of Teaching

So much has been written about teachers lately, that there may be nothing left unmentioned, unintentioned, undetected, unsuspected. We have been reading that we are highly adaptable superheroes, perhaps a even strange breed from another planet who are able to leap into new technologies in a single bound and bend our teaching into the explicit teaching way or the inquiry based learning way or the online way.If only we had those original superhero powers.

Yet in more than one sense, the above description does apply to many teachers. As the educational show had to keep rolling during CoVid, teachers had to dig deep in some cases, to find not only appropriate resources but also innovative ways of maintaining connection with their classes.
Suddenly there was a plethora of online resources available for use in schools but nonetheless, teachers still needed to adapt these to their lessons and mandatory topics. There is no longer any doubt that teaching is a very creative process, from the moment a class begins. We all know that the best planned lessons may go awry, and there are too many factors to even begin to consider which may have the biggest impact.

One of the outcomes of online teaching during the pandemic is quite unexpected. School teaching has moved way up the scale of the list of creative arts. Teachers had to adapt to new technologies and apply these to their own subject contexts. Teachers had to experiment with differing media to see how these could be utilised, applied and appreciated.
These new resources could be shared and offered to teaching colleagues near and far. How should we share these resources? Of course, through the medium we have used most frequently during the pandemic – the world wide web. Teaching resources are now unbound.