Science is creative. Write it big, shout it loud, because the message is not getting through. There is much discussion about creativity in education at the moment, yet how often does one hear the minister for "this" or the expert in "that" discuss creativity and immediately start talking about the arts? If "creativity" in the curriculum is…

Cladistics is one of the most commonly used methods for reconstructing evolutionary ancestries. Developed by Willi Hennig in 1966, cladistics use patterns of shared derived characters called synapomorphies to infer the order of lineage divergences within a group of organisms. Unfortunately, while this methodology forms the foundation of many…

This article addresses the issue on school policy concerning holidays and outlines some steps schools can take to keep the children and their enrichment as the focus. In the United States, there are many kinds of holidays: religious, cultural, national, and sentimental. School calendars usually honor some of the most prominent of these. If the…

This article describes how teachers welcome a diminutive paper doll with outspread arms, bulbous cheeks, and exciting stories to share into their fold to help impart lessons both local and global. Often folded or laminated for protection and accompanied by photographs, the paper doll is part of the international mini-phenomenon known as Flat…

Traditional literacy practices and educational policymakers define reading as a process of vocabulary recognition and print-based decoding. This perspective is especially prevalent in the primary-grade literacy classroom. Yet, a growing movement sees literacy encompassing not only printed text, but a wide range of cultural, technological, and…

After 11 years of teaching, the question the author worries about now is "How do we do this well? How do we engage students in math classes? How do we convince them that math is beautiful, fun and powerful?" For the math department at the author's school, Boston Arts Academy (BAA), the answer has been to infuse creativity into math…

Resource teachers fulfill special responsibilities and roles in a school. As teachers, they must commit themselves to a wide group of students; as resource specialists, they must make a commitment to the staff and administration. Both commitments call for an effective style of leadership, knowledge, and service that, in order to make a difference,…

Two series of classroom observations showed that a high-creative group of student teachers gave more original but not more fluent nor flexible teaching performances than a group of low-creative student teachers. (Author/KM)

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PROGRAMS DEALING WITH GIFTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE DESCRIBED AND GIVE THE DEFINITION, IMAGINATION, ENRICHMENT, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TREATMENT OF THE ABLEST STUDENT. THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS OF GRADE SKIPPING, GRADELESS SCHOOLS, GROUPING BY ABILITY, AND ENRICHMENT ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH EXAMPLES OF NEW METHODS OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS AND…

The Developmental Career Guidance Project in the Detroit, Michigan schools sponsored a workshop which was designed to help youngsters improve their self-concepts by sensitizing teachers to the implications of various elements of self-theory. The teachers consequently had to go back to their own classrooms and creatively develop materials and…

The disparity between advanced educational preparation and training and subsequent employment opportunities raises major questions regarding traditional academic expectations and lifestyles. This article offers some suggestions for a new relationship between educational institutions and scientists, writers, artists, and other highly-specialized…

Written for the harried English teacher whose aim is creative and stimulating teaching, this book's chapters attempt to provide inspiration for instruction in six specific areas. Robert E. Probst urges the student's enjoyment of literature as a special, thought-provoking experience and suggests that a model of cooperation prevail over a…

Behavioral objectives in the teaching of English are criticized. The primary objection is the a priori expectations and reasoning which is a necessary part of these objectives. Behavioral objectives are said to restrict the flexibility and mobility of the English teacher in his classroom interaction. The entire concept of writing behavioral…

This nationwide study was concerned with the relation of personality traits, classroom behavior, and student-teacher relationships to creativity in college teaching. Creative teachers were identified by Ph.D. students who had studied under the teachers and who nominated them as having had the most facilitating effect on their creative development,…