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Myth of the Muse, The
Creativity is crucial in helping students achieve academic and professional success. The authors argue that creativity is not spontaneous or inborn but a process that can be cultivated by utilizing seven \"virtues\" that inspire creativity: curiosity, versatility, synthesis, discipline, collaboration, experimentation, and tenacity. Ideal for team study and discussion, the book includes assessment rubrics as well as sample activities and practical guidelines to encourage and facilitate creativity. With The Myth of the Muse, K–12 educators can put creativity at the very center of their curriculum.
Benefits
* Engage in conversations about how and why creativity is an important quality for approaching future global challenges.
* Consider the crucial elements of creativity.
* Challenge misperceptions and preconceptions about creativity.
* Explore the great works of creative individuals throughout history.
* Examine practices educators and policymakers should avoid and emulate in nurturing creativity.
* Reflect creatively using prompts at the end of each chapter.
Contents
Introduction: The Creativity Imperative
* Creativity Myths
* Curiosity
* Versatility
* Synthesis
* Discipline
* Collaboration
* Experimentation
* Tenacity
Appendix A: Creativity Assessment
Appendix B: Guidelines for Leaders
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Teaching creative and critical thinking
This workbook contains over sixty activities for learning-through-play. The activities were created by teacher-candidates, retired educators, and student-learners. They include interdisciplinary activities for first through twelfth grade levels. Each activity includes how-to-implement instructions along with applicable learning standards.
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Sparking Student Creativity
Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it's also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today's standards-based, critical thinking-focused classroom. The book vividly and comprehensively shows:How creative lessons can meet and extend the expectations of curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards.How to incorporate creativity and assessment into daily classroom practices.How to develop a \"\"Creativity Road Map\"\" to guide instruction.How to design lessons that prompt and support creative thinking.In addition, the book includes 40 \"\"grab and go\"\" ideas that infuse lesson plans with a spirit of exploration. No matter what grade levels or content areas you teach, Sparking Student Creativity will help you to produce creative lesson components that directly address critical content, target specific standards, and require thoughtful products from students as they grow into independent learners and become successful students and adults.
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How to develop student creativity
Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues.
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How to teach thinking and learning skills : a practical programme for the whole school
This book is grounded in the best of current practice and theories surrounding thinking and learning skills. It provides a highly effective method for introducing a comprehensive set of thinking and learning skills to children aged five to 11 years, as well as for integrating these skills through the curriculum.
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