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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.
Planning for Creative Outcomes
Planning for Creative Outcomes
Learning objectives in this chapter:
- To review the characteristics of creativity in teaching and learning with a view to using them to plan for creative outcomes
- To consider how to select relevant characteristics and to incorporate them in lesson planning
- To consider how to keep a balance between developing skills in working creatively and opportunities to practise those skills in creative contexts
Now that we have looked in some detail at what creative teaching and learning might involve and what it might look like, it is time to consider how to plan lessons and activities that will foster and encourage learning in these areas.
To begin with, let us look at a lesson planned without aspirations to be creative in any particular way ...
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