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Instructor, 2001
Tips to keep students interested during the final weeks of school include: work outside (studying bubbles and writing poetry about nature); put on a show about one subject; play social studies Jeopardy; devote entire days to one subject area; have a teach-the-teacher day, where students and teachers trade roles; and create a video keepsake…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Student Motivation
Abernathy, Rob; Reardon, Mark – 2002
This book shows teachers how to reclaim their students' attention and, in the process, help them absorb information and stay on task. There are over 30 tips that are practical, not always obvious, and well tested. Three parts focus on: (1) "HotTips for Opening the Lesson" (e.g., fill the room with I.D. posters, ask opening questions, get…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Sugar, Steve; Sugar, Kim Kostoroski – 2002
This book offers a collection of games for K-8 students that will enliven instruction, boost student motivation, and enhance learning at school or at home. It features in- and out-of-desk activities to motivate and engage students, promote teamwork, build skills, and enhance interactive problem solving. The book includes hundreds of tips on how to…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Problem Solving
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Kamm, Jay D. – English Journal, 1982
Recounts how linking "Hamlet" to modern horrors and adventures stimulated student interest in the play. (JL)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Drama, Literature Appreciation, Motivation Techniques
Wallace, Belle – Gifted Education International, 1986
The four dimensions of the creative personality--thinking, sensing, intuition, and feeling--are described, as are the creative process (including preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification) and ways in which teachers can assess and promote creativity. Creative classroom environments and teaching methods are detailed. (CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Pross, Maureen N. – Learning, 1985
This list of practical and useful ideas is compiled from veteran teachers for motivating students, making a dull subject more interesting, or making a difficult subject easier to understand. (MT)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Student Motivation
Morrow, Brenda; And Others – Learning, 1995
Creative ways to motivate students to read and report on books include having them retell the stories differently, invent products related to the stories, share snacks like those the characters ate, illustrate action from the story, write imaginary conversations between themselves and the characters, and turn the stories into short skits. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Assignments
Greenspan, Elaine; And Others – Learning, 1992
Elementary teachers offer their ideas for enhancing the final days of school. They help students review material, highlight achievements, fill spare time, and create summer plans. Suggestions include making class diplomas, producing action news, making friendship trees, writing letters to their future selves, and preparing summer activity guides.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Spann, Mary Beth – Instructor, 1992
Discusses the importance of children's literature in kindergarten math instruction, noting it is rich with opportunities for children to think and reason. The article explains how teachers can find math connections in children's books and then select books. It describes two books appropriate for literature-based math lessons. (SM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Teaching, Elementary School Mathematics, Kindergarten
Pollard, Barbara – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1989
A teacher in an inner-city London school describes how she involves low income, minority group students in learning classics such as Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Emphasizes cooperative learning and active student involvement using their urban background. (FMW)
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching, Foreign Countries
Haluska, Rena; Gillen, Dorothy – Learning, 1995
When older and younger students are paired, motivation, cooperation, friendship, and self-esteem flourish, and extra learning takes place. The article describes how to match students, presents five cross-grade projects, discusses project evaluation, and offers the option of cross-grade tutors. (SM)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Hughes, J. D. – 2003
This book presents six units filled with games, hints, and special game variations for teaching elementary school physical education classes. It is intended to help physical education teachers increase the time students are active in class, minimize discipline problems, develop healthy attitudes that lead to a lifetime of physical activity, save…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education
Novelli, Joan – Instructor, 1993
A Chapter 1 school motivated students using technology and the arts. A partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts helped students develop cognitive and creative skills while working in concrete ways. Using computers, each class chose an artist, developed a class museum, and exhibited at the student-staffed museum. (SM)
Descriptors: Artists, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
Chaffin, Kenny A. – Learning, 1995
This paper recommends edutainment to engage students' senses and get them involved by presenting lessons in a way that makes education interesting and entertaining. Suggestions for creative edutainment include using exciting computer software, joining the Internet, hooking up to cable television, and providing a variety of magazines. (SM)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Creative Teaching
Nelson, Kristen – Mailbox Teacher, 1999
Suggestions for creating memorable lessons that keep students' attention include the following: relate what is being taught to students' lives and interests, give students choices, show students that you enjoy teaching, include human emotion and human interest stories, reduce students' negative emotions, make lessons interesting and active, vary…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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