Creative Teaching: Getting It Right

Description:
Most teachers accept that learning is most effective when it is enjoyable, but they are given little direct advice about how to achieve the creative and motivating classrooms that educationalists appeal for. This fascinating book creates a coherent picture of how teachers can make learning easier and more enjoyable for their pupils, including activity ideas, self-evaluation exercises and adaptable action plans for improving both classroom and whole-school ethos.

Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction; What is creative teaching? - Some research into learning skills and pupil performance - Schools that get it right: stories from our presenters; Chapter Two: The Creative Classroom; What pupils need; What teachers need; Self-evaluation: what not to be doing; The philosophy of a creative classroom and steps to achieve it Simple creative teaching and learning ideas for the classroom: + Lesson Starters + Lesson Middles + Lesson Enders + Starting and finishing a topic; Chapter Three: The Creative School; Avoid pockets of good practice by developing some whole-school initiatives; Evaluate how well your school caters for creativity; Some ideas for your school; Chapter Four: Conclusion; Where next?; Action Plans.

Author Biography:
David Starbuck works part-time as a Secondary teacher in Surrey. The rest of his time is devoted to running his family's company, Learning Performance (an education consultancy), which runs courses for teachers on facilitating the learning process.