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Corke, Margaret – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Playfulness is important; it creates an alternative space where emotional, cognitive and social dimensions can be explored and tested. This highly practical book explores the endless possibilities of using playful, creative and interactive activities to meaningfully engage with children with multiple learning difficulties or autistic spectrum…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Play, Special Needs Students, Special Education
Karwowski, Maciej; Gralewski, Jacek; Lebuda, Izabela; Wisniewska, Ewa – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
The article presents basic information on the strand of psycho-pedagogy of creativity--a unique perspective on creativity teachers' education in Europe and the world. Psycho-pedagogy of creativity is a major in pedagogy studies, run in Poland, at the Warsaw Academy of Special Education. Our aim is to educate specialists who are open, sensitive and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Creative Teaching
Lofthouse, Russ – Executive Educator, 1988
Explains how Cherry Creek (Colorado) schools effectively used Chapter 2 funds provided thorugh the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Because these monies must be spent to supplement, not supplant, a school system's activities, the district devised two kinds of grants (minigrants and "skunk-works" grants) that fulfill Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Grantsmanship

Beyersdorfer, Janet – English Journal, 1982
Explains how student-constructed "aliens" were used to generate writing and to encourage the development of writing skills. (JL)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Junior High Schools, Realia, Writing Exercises
Farnan, John – TESL Talk, 1982
Presents case in favor of using line drawings as one of the most effective and least expensive ways of recapturing imagination in the language classroom. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Cartoons, Creative Teaching, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Koch, Kenneth – American Educator, 2000
Describes how one teacher got elementary students excited about writing poetry by providing them with simple rules and structures and encouraging them to take chances. Strategies included having each child contribute one line to a poem, discouraging rhyming (which is difficult and blocks creativity), encouraging them to write freely, and having…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Creative Teaching, Creative Writing, Elementary Education

Miller, Doris P. – English Journal, 1982
Recounts how old radio shows were used by one teacher to help students develop listening, speaking, and writing skills. (JL)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Educational Radio, Junior High Schools, Listening Skills

Bouley, Sandy – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Describes a cross-disciplinary peer teaching program to improve high school teachers' writing skills. The 16-week program succeeded because of four main ingredients: administrative support, a long-term commitment to improving student writing, an onsite, inservice design, and incentives for teacher involvement. (MLH)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Innovation, Peer Teaching
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
Marvin, Elizabeth Glenn – Learning, 1993
Describes how an eighth-grade teacher interested her students in reading and writing using cooperative learning and newspapers. During National Newspaper Week, students grouped into mixed ability clusters then completed weekly newspaper reading activities over the rest of the year. Team members agreed on role assignments and rotated…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching, Junior High Schools
Richardson, Glenn E.; Jordan, Rebecca – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1981
Five different perspectives on creativity in teaching are examined: (1) Creativity is developed by making teaching methods from almost nothing. (2) Creativity is fostered by idealizing without constraint. (3) Creativity can be developed through analogs. (4) Creativity can mean to reorganize or modify. (5) Creativity can be fostered using a forced…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creativity

Yaffe, Stephen H. – Educational Leadership, 1989
Drama in the classroom means honing thinking skills, increasing comprehension, bringing the written word to life, and fun. And it's effective with general, gifted, and at-risk students from K-12. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking
McCrary, Dierdre – Learning, 1993
Describes a multicultural unit for elementary students. Children select a folk art or craft and become experts, learn the craft, research the craft, pass the craft on, and review their discoveries. The unit culminates in a folk arts festival at which students demonstrate their craft to classmates, teachers, and guests. (SM)
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
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
Novelli, Joan – Instructor, 1993
Describes how technology helped one elementary teacher meet the needs and celebrate the strengths of all his students in a mixed-ability-grouped, student-centered classroom. Technology allowed the children many more choices for different kinds of learning and helped them develop their individual strengths. (SM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching