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Transformers: Creative Teachers for the 21st Century

Editat de Mary K. Schreck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009

Suntem de părere că volumul Transformers, editat de Mary K. Schreck, reprezintă o resursă esențială pentru educatorii care doresc să depășească barierele curriculare rigide. Această ediție pune accent pe o metodologie aplicată, transformând conceptul abstract de creativitate într-un instrument de lucru cotidian. Subliniem faptul că textul nu se limitează la teorie, ci debutează prin a da voce profesorilor și elevilor, identificând blocajele comune care apar în mediul școlar.

Structura cărții este concepută pentru a ghida cititorul de la introspecție la acțiune. Primele secțiuni explorează preconcepțiile despre eroare și succes, în timp ce capitolele ulterioare, precum „Memoriile unei cariere creative”, oferă o perspectivă narativă asupra evoluției profesionale. Un element distinctiv îl reprezintă includerea unor „prologuri” tematice care funcționează ca seturi de instrumente rapide: de la hărți mentale pentru stimularea elevilor, până la cele 20 de chei pentru un mediu de învățare dinamic. Recomandăm atenția sporită asupra secțiunii care delimitează creativitatea pedagogică autentică de ceea ce autorul numește „Curriculumul Crayola”, asigurând astfel că inovația servește obiectivelor de învățare.

Transformers acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Creativity for Learning de Kristy Doss, dar cu o abordare mai centrată pe experiența personală a cadrului didactic și pe strategii imediate de implementare la clasă. În timp ce alte lucrări similare analizează creativitatea din perspectivă sociologică sau de cercetare pură, volumul de față este un ghid metodologic care încurajează profesorii să își folosească punctele forte pentru a inspira elevii în secolul XXI.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412971126
ISBN-10: 1412971128
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cadrelor didactice care caută să revitalizeze procesul de predare. Cititorul câștigă acces la 41 de idei practice și strategii verificate prin cercetare care transformă lecțiile obișnuite în experiențe de învățare motivante. Este un instrument valoros pentru a depăși „predarea pentru test” și pentru a construi o clasă unde gândirea critică și inovația sunt încurajate activ.


Descriere scurtă

Built on the core belief that creativity for teachers and students is required for success in the 21st century, this book provides teachers with a step-by-step plan for accessing their own creative resources and cultivating a more creative teaching practice. The author offers a breakdown of the creative process as it applies to both lesson building and delivery, includes detailed guidelines on how to identify creativity that furthers educational goals, and presents research-based, creative teaching strategies designed to enhance learning by engaging, motivating, and inspiring students across grade levels and subject areas.
Teachers will gain confidence in their own ability to teach from their strengths and to elicit students' strengths and creativity.

Recenzii

"This book combats the stagnation of creativity in an era of increased accountability through standardized testing. It is an exceptionally well written, comprehensive book that will appeal to a variety of readers."
"This valuable, readable book offers strategies that can wake up your creative juices and help students become more creative thinkers in their future lives."
"Encourages instructors to ask students to think out of the box and challenge students."

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Prologue #1: An Elementary Teacher Speaks Out About Creativity
1. What Teachers and Students Have to Say About Creativity: An Introduction
41 Creative Ideas
Teachers Voice Their Creative Blocks
Jump Starting Student Creativity: Making Mind Maps
This Is Not the "Crayola Curriculum"
Student Blocks to Creativity
A Past Student's E-mail on Creativity
Prologue #2: Before We Begin . . . Get Out Your Notebook!
2. What Is, What Isn't Creativity?
An Overview of Preconceptions
Worshipping at the Altar of Right Answers
Making Mistakes
Specific Methods of Creative Behavior
Prologue #3: 20 Keys to a More Creative Classroom
3. Memoir of a Creative Career (Abridged)
My First Creative Teacher
A First-Year Teacher
My Home Teaching Days
Back to the Traditional Classroom
Early Years at Francis Howell School District
Teaching Skills as Well as Content
My Repeaters on Grammar Patrol
Prologue #4: The Creative Teacher's Bill of Rights
4. What's Going On?
Side Effects of the Mandated Testing Phenomenon
The Whole Child, The Whole Teacher
Teaching the Whole Brain
The Necessity of Teacher Empowerment
Needs of the 21st Century, Glaringly Visible
Dropouts and High Achievers
Prologue #5: Affirmations: One Way to Rewire You for the Creativity You'll Need for the 21st Century
5. Links Between Creativity and Research-Based Instruction
Brain Research: A Gold Mine for Creative Strategies
Novelty
Meaning and Choice
Challenge Without Threat
Visualization
Emotions and Bodies
Prologue #6: Letter From Arthur Costa
6. Transformational Journey: From the Inside Out
The Saturday/Sunday Kings and Queens
You, the Saturday/Sunday King or Queen
Transformational Stages
Our Hero's Journey: Moving Toward Ownership
Your Questions: The Main Tool of Transformers
Creative Thinking Versus Critical Thinking
Thinking in Metaphor
More Powerful Metaphors
Frames, Narratives, Scripts: How We Think
Prologue #7: The Administrator's Creativity Checklist
7. The Administrator's Role in Providing a Creative Environment
Metaphor and School Transformation, by Linda Henke
An Informal Ethnographic Study
School Culture
School as Factory
The Search for New Metaphors
Reframing Beliefs at MRH
Prologue #8: Leslie Wilson's Thinking Patterns That Help Create New Ideas
8. What Can We Do to Strengthen Our Creative Muscles?
For Ourselves?the Gift of Surprise
Mindfulness, Awareness, and All That Good Stuff
Begin With Fostering Creative Courage
Let's Look at Fear for a Moment
Respecting the Need to Make Time for Yourself
How to Help Your Fellow Teachers
Prologue #9: Our Tiny Digital Natives
9. Technology and the Creative Classroom
Swimming in a Technological Environment, by John Ross
Connecting Technology and Creativity: National Trends
Promoting Student Creativity With Technology
Becoming a More Creative Teacher With Technology
Prologue #10: Rules for Lady Teachers in 1915
10. Transforming Teaching Through Creativity for the 21st Century
The Last Time
A Look at Possible Future Transformation
The Past as of 1970
What Does the Public Think We Should Be Doing?
Welcome to Our Brave New Right-Brained World
Every Teacher a Creative Teacher
References
Index