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Book Features:
- Presents a research-based approach to teaching and learning for creativity.
- Identifies which learning outcomes support creativity and offers practical advice for how to teach for these outcomes.
- Shows how students learn content-area knowledge while also learning to be creative with that knowledge.
- Describes principles and techniques that teachers can use in all subjects.
- Demonstrates that a combination of school structures, cultures, incentives, and leadership are needed to support creative teaching and learning.
Pages | 128 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Aug 2019 |
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
Subject/s | Education   Teaching skills & techniques   Curriculum planning & development   |
- Foreword Tony Wagner
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Teaching Creative Knowledge
- 2. Teaching Creative Knowledge
- Creative Knowledge and Shallow Knowledge
- Moving Beyond the Coverage Trap
- The Noisy Library: Learning Creativity and State Standards
- Creative Habits of Mind
- Creative Knowledge in Math, Science, and History
- Teaching for Creativity in Every Subject
- 3. Guided Improvisation
- Learning to Improvise
- Improvisation is an Ensemble Art
- Improv Techniques for Teachers
- When Teachers Need to Break the Rules
- Lesson Planning for Guided Improvisation
- Scaffolding: Balancing Structure and Improvisation
- Summary
- 4. Mastering the Teaching Paradox
- Scaffolding: The Structures of Guided Improvisation
- Project-Based Learning and the Teaching Paradox
- Different Balances of Structure and Improvisation
- From Novice Teacher to Expert Improviser
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- Conclusion
- 5. Schools for creativity
- What Creative Schools Look Like
- A Case Study: Keels Elementary
- Conclusion
- 6. A Call to Action
- References
- Index
- About the Author