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Sorensen, Nick – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
The Improvising Teacher offers a radical reconceptualization of improvisation as a fundamental element of teacher expertise. Drawing on theories of improvisation and expertise alongside empirical research, the book argues that teacher expertise is fundamentally improvisatory. The book provides a theoretical model for teacher expertise that is…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Teaching, Expertise, Teacher Competencies
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Sevcik, Richard S.; Hicks, O'Dell; Schultz, Linda D.; Alexander, Susan V. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
"Elements" is a competitive card game designed to help middle school students recognize and correlate the names and symbols of the most significant chemical elements. Each student is required to construct his or her own decks of playing cards--one with the names of the chemical elements and one with their corresponding symbols--and compete against…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Student Motivation, Science Instruction, Middle School Students
Garner, Joan – Teacher Ideas Press, 2006
The new Readers Theatre series features scripts for students in grades 4-8. These original scripts are written for the specific purpose of teaching literary genre. Each book is composed of 24-28 scripts, each of which will be keyed to published books, plays, poems or stories in that genre, encouraging students to read the originals in order to…
Descriptors: Scripts, Lesson Plans, Fantasy, Language Arts
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Freeman, John – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2006
This article proposes an approach to teaching and learning in the university arts sector that is able to accommodate and assess creative process alongside practice. In arguing thus, romanticized notions of "the spontaneous artist" are exposed to scrutiny, and the creative process itself is made subject to analysis. Notwithstanding its focus on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Lifelong Learning, Learning Experience
Wolfman, Judy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2004
How did the bee get his bumble? How do birds get their feathers? Why is the bluebird blue? Curious first through fifth graders want to know how and why things happen! Judy Wolfman has created 40 Readers Theatre scripts based on imaginative and creative porquoi stories that stem from multicultural folktales as well as Native American Indian legends…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Scripts, American Indians, Theater Arts
Elliott, Alison, Ed. – Early Childhood Australia, 2005
"Every Child" is Australia's premier early childhood publication, aimed at anyone involved in the care and education of children from birth to eight years--in particular child care professionals, teachers, child care students and the parents of young children. Published quarterly, it contains informative and entertaining articles on such…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Visual Arts, Dramatic Play, Young Children