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Creativity is an integral element of any primary classroom. It has been never more important for teachers to involve children in their own learning and provide a curriculum that motivates and engages. Being creative involves generating new ideas, reflecting upon and evaluating different teaching approaches, and establishing an environment that supports creativity.
Creativity in the Primary Classroom explores how to develop as a creative teacher and how to foster creativity in your classes. Drawing from key literature and detailed real-life examples, Juliet Desailly puts into practice her extensive experience planning, advising and developing creative approaches to teaching and curriculum planning.
This book examines what creativity in a primary classroom can look like, and is supported throughout by practical activities for use across curriculum subjects and reflective tasks encouraging critical engagement with key conceptual issues.
This is essential reading for students on primary initial teacher education courses including undergraduate, graduate, and employment-based routes into teaching, and also for practicing teachers wishing to enhance their own teaching.
Introduction
Introduction
What do we want a classroom in a primary school in the second decade of the 21st century to look like? Children sat in rows looking at the board? Children involved in investigations and experimentation? Children working silently and alone? Children debating enthusiastically in groups? Or perhaps all of these things at different times? And what do we mean by a ‘classroom’? Could the learning be happening outside, in the community or a natural environment?
As teachers, we need to help prepare young people for life in a rapidly changing society where they can be innovative, responsive and fulfilled. We will need the ability to use methods of teaching and learning within a curriculum that will make that possible.
Many schools have already been adapting what ...
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