1st - In your own words, explain how more interesting and innovating strategies can create a positive and challenging learning environment for your or someone’s students. ( Captivating Your Class Effective Teaching Skills, 1 Enlivening “A” Level teaching and learning)

When teaching, you have to pay attention to many details. It is not any new thing for us. Every single class will not be developing in the same way and if it is develop in the same way, it will not take the same rhythm and route as the previous one. 

That is why we have to use innovating strategies to keep the interest of the students and therefore let learning to happen trough a good environment. To begin, we, as teachers, have to keep updating ourselves, regarding to media due to this media will encourage and will take the attention of the students more easily.
 

Also, the chapter already read gives some clues to make the student feel comfortable in the classroom and for knowing how to control not only the time the teacher speaks but also the time the students speak. It sounds kind of contradictory or meaningless but it does have a lot of meaning. It says so, because the teacher, of course, has to give enough time to the students to participate, but also have to control of the time students speak, being careful that the most talkative students do not take too much time in their participations.

Honestly, this book gives a lot of helpful suggestions we can use to make our classes better.