Tasks Demanding Creativity

"Mkhitar Sebastatsi" Educational Complex is an experimental school. Such activities as dictations, reproductions, learning by heart have been eliminated from our everyday school life. Fulfilling different educational projects, researching, learning something by doing it, creative approach to everything is our main pedagogical approach. We have also almost eliminated multiple choice tests at our school because such tests do not develop creativity and do not motivate students to do something by learning something. All the tasks for all the subjects should have a creative character and demand some research work. For example, our students do not study biology with their biology text-books where they can find hundreds of thousands of biological terms and which are usually forgotten after a month. They study biology in the school greenhouse on the roof of our school building. The students themselves grow rare flowers and different plants there and learn everything by taking care of these plants. I think they will never forget how to take care of the flowers and differents plants that demand different conditions. Our well-equipped science laboratory helps the teachers to conduct physics and chemistry lessons mainly with experiments and not with the complicated theoretical explanations in their text-books. As for languages we usually give tasks which demand creative approach.
Now I want to show what kind of tasks are usually given to the students of our high school in English.

A task for the students of Grade 10
I. What does the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention” mean? Write down a list of ten important inventions. Next to each invention write two-three sentences explaining why these inventions were needed.
II. Writing advertisements
Try to advertise these things so that you might have as many buyers as possible: Shoes, a two-room flat, a science fiction book. You may use pictures to illustrate what you are advertising.
III. My plans for the future
Using these words and word combinations try to outline your future life: to leave school, to go to university, to study two foreign languages, to graduate from the university, to become a translator, to work at an international organization, to establish contacts.

A Task for the students of Grade 12
The 12th year at school is coming to an end. You may have already made a decision concerning your future profession or specialty. What is it supposed to be? Have you made the right decision? There is a point of view which says that in order to be a good specialist one should have certain characteristic features in addition to specific knowledge and skills. Have you found out what characteristic features are needed for your future profession and do you have them? Try to find outstanding representatives having the same profession. Collect data about these specialists on the Internet and find out characteristic features which are common for them. Pointing out all this in your informative article, make conclusions about yourself. Will you be able to become a good specialist?

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