Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Establishing the Ethos
Establishing the Ethos
Learning objectives in this chapter:
- To consider how classroom ethos is established
- To consider the importance of classroom layout and organisation
- To understand the importance of relationships, motivation and autonomy to learning creatively and learning to be creative
When you enter a school for the first time it is possible to gain an insight very quickly as to the sort of school it is: what the values and main aims are, what the expectations for the children's work and behaviour are, how the school fits within its local community. The same is true when you enter a classroom. These impressions are built up from what we see around us, what we hear, even what we smell, and they contribute to a range of emotions ...
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