Publication date:
14 March 2013Length of book:
222 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
235x160mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781610484022
Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation and destroy experimentation.
Reclaim teacher control of curriculum design and instructional methods across all fields by boldly going ‘outside’, even off the walls, where teachers have lived happier lives before the invention of rubrics and rules.
Become the truly creative teacher to which you have aspired!
Highlights of the book:
Reclaim teacher control of curriculum design and instructional methods across all fields by boldly going ‘outside’, even off the walls, where teachers have lived happier lives before the invention of rubrics and rules.
Become the truly creative teacher to which you have aspired!
Highlights of the book:
- Explores and expands opportunities for engaging student conversation and ideas
- Adds variety and depth to your teaching methods
- Hone questioning and critical thinking skills
- Move from lower to higher levels
- Reinvent instruction at home, work, or in classrooms as places of imagination and enjoyment.
Zevin posits in part 1 that traditional teaching is failing primarily because teachers are too comfortable staying inside the box. The constrictive environment of schools has left teachers few alternatives but to provide students with correct answers to memorize, pacify students through direct instruction, and dispense information through mind-numbing PowerPoints. This has become the norm and falls short of the educational mental health that would occur through creative teaching. Citing Jerome Bruner, Benjamin Bloom, and John Dewey, Zevin proposes collaboration and an atmosphere of playfulness. Disappointingly, the arsenal of creative teaching tactics in part 1 is limited to strategies, such as mock trials or debates. Refreshingly, part 2 is an analysis of six engines of creativity with many outside-the-box scenarios offered. The first engine, creative attention, is awakened through careful observation. In the second, those individual observations are aroused by inductive examination identifying concepts, categories, and metaphors. The third engine, curiosity, calls for hypotheses. Through the fourth engine, students are presented with contradictions, ambiguities, or converging views. Next, those perspectives are explored. Finally, temporary evaluations are drawn. Overall, Zevin's book is a tribute to creative teaching. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and professional collections.