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:

Explores and expands opportunities for engaging student conversation and ideasAdds variety and depth to your teaching methodsHone questioning and critical thinking skillsMove from lower to higher levelsReinvent instruction at home, work, or in classrooms as places of imagination and enjoyment.

Jack Zevin is professor of education at Queens College/CUNY who began pedagogical life as a teacher on the South side of Chicago. Teaching is a passion as much as a profession for Jack, and he has contributed many articles, books, and curricula to enhance and enrich instruction for those willing to try creative approaches inside and outside classrooms.

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction: Creative Teaching in the box, outside of the box, and off the walls
1. Creativity and creative teaching defined
2. Work and play, play and work: the genesis of creativity
3. Creative teaching and learning: Theory and practice
4. Dimensions of distraction and invention
5. Engines for creative teaching and learning

Part II: Introduction: Engines of Creativity
6. Attention awakened: the power of observation and participation
7. Ideas aroused: formulating definitions and building analogies
8. Investigations stimulated: From puzzlement to perplexity, grasping the mysterious
9. Viewpoints explored: different perspectives and conflicting interpretations
10. Judgments provoked: Apathy to empathy, assessment to commitment, and evaluation to moral choice
11. Rules and rationales for creativity in the 21st Century and beyond

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