Once I was a small girl and I loved to dance, draw, sing and create.
And then I grew up to become a teacher.
No, not that kind a teacher!
I became Lana, a creative teacher…
It is so easy to be a creative teacher today when the only thing you have to do is to browse
for other people’s ideas. Modern teachers would not be able to survive without
SMART phones, MEMORY sticks and INTERACTIVE whiteboards.
But can they turn SMART and use their MEMORY to create INTERACTIVE lessons?
I am trying to encourage creative learning…
To feed my students’ creative thinking, I always open my treasure chest full of originality,
innovation and imagination, and ask them to ponder over the complexity and elusiveness
which creativity brings to our lives.
Surprisingly, the smaller we are, the more insightful our answers are.
To think likewise, we have to free ourselves from the chains of ANDROID applications, INFORMATION
technology and MOBILE phones, unless we want to become ANDROIDS, who seamlessly communicate
their INFORMATION, totally imMOBILE.
I assess the process, not the product…
When teaching, I do strive to instill in my students the true value of the learning process.
She keeps telling us that learning is not only about the destination, but the journey
itself, about the wonderful way of self-discovery.
I committed myself to looking beyond the obvious in order to help my students become rich with
ideas, wits and reasoning. I do that by showing them that iPADS can be used to PAD our brains
with creative thinking, TABlets to TAB our thinking outside the box and lapTOPS to TOP
our own treasure chests with our own creative wealth.
I am proudly teaching small children…
People very often misunderstand my life mission and ask me why I completed my PhD if I wanted
to teach the SMALL.
What they can not comprehend is that teaching the SMALL fosters the BIG.
My daughter very often does not understand how inspirational she is and asks me
Mum, will you always TEACH me?
What she can not realise is that mums TEACH their children all their lives.
I am Lana, a mum-teacher, and I will never stop teaching...