The Creative Teacher`s Compendium: An A-Z Guide of Creative Activities for the Language Classroom

Creativity is an exciting concept in learning and teaching today, not least in the field of ELT, with numerous books, publications, conferences and websites dedicated to exploring ideas around the theme. The Creative Teacher’s Compendium offers teachers an extensive repertoire of creative ideas and techniques to work with in the classroom, each one clearly linked to a language point with easy-to-follow teaching notes, and also to a section which provides further reflection and teacher development. The A-Z format provides a memorable and easily-referenced manual for teachers, with a large variety of low-preparation, practical teaching ideas. Through its clear links to specific language points and also to teacher reflection, The Creative Teacher’s Compendium is significantly different in both its approach and content from other resource books on creative language teaching. Antonia and Alan do a lot of teacher training in various countries around the world, and regularly speak at conferences. The teachers we meet are forever asking us where they can get hold of all these lovely ideas, so they decided to put them in a book.

Antonia Clare is an English language teacher trainer, international conference speaker and award-winning materials writer. Her special interests include the use of video and new technologies in ELT, creativity and the psychology of language learning. She has taught and trained in many countries around the world, and has co-authored bestselling course book titles including Total English and Speakout. She has also recently contributed chapters to Creativity in English Language Teaching (ELT Council, Malta) and The Image in English Language Teaching (ELT Council, Malta). Alan Marsh has worked in teacher training and development (including CELTA, DELTA, Erasmus+) with teachers from all over the world, both in mainstream education (Primary, Secondary and Tertiary) and in private language school contexts. He contributes regularly to ELT publications, is the President of MATEFL and in 2014 he was awarded the first Inspiring ELT Professional award in recognition of his contribution to Malta’s ELT industry. He is particularly interested in exploring creative approaches in the language classroom as a means to increasing learner and teacher motivation.