about us
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our aims
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The C Group is not so much an organization with a dogma but a collection of individuals and a cluster of ideas – many of which the members hold in common. The initial point of contact is our shared conviction that creativity can be reinforced in ELT through collective action. The rest is part of a continuing process of exploration.
But creativity will take concrete form: our aim is to make classroom practice more inspiring and, therefore, more effective. The outcome of our working together will be a cornucopia of concrete ways, techniques, inquiry and strategies, for making teaching more creative and inspiring for both teachers and learners and to bring us closer to the community outside the classroom walls. 
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Information function: to act as a clearing house for the diffusion of information between and among its members.
Activity function: to take positive action to promote creative teaching and learning through publications, interactive events, projects and professional networking. Support/ Educational function: through a) and b) above to reach out to the wider community of teachers and to offer them support for creative professional development. Reflective function: to examine, articulate, expose, challenge, learn from, reflect on and unpack our assumptions, questions and intentions. Lobbying function: to use whatever influence we may have to persuade publishers, testing organizations, teacher education bodies and ministries of education to seek more diverse, creative and unconventional solutions. While it is true that 'creativity is an elusive creature that can't be defined in a single feature', we nevertheless offer a provisional description of creativity as: 'thinking and activity in language education that is novel, valuable, and open-ended, and that helps to enrich learning in our students and ourselves'.
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