The Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8598-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 298 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Reihe: Practical Teaching Guides

The most comprehensive, up-to-date and practical guide for teachers on how to become a more effective practitioner.

First class authors with extensive experience in education and training.
- Focuses on creativity in the classroom.
- Unique, simplified approach that includes the most up-to-date developments.

This book aims to help you become a more effective teacher through a new teaching and learning framework which centres on the key role of creativity. Inside you will learn how to use creativity to reinvigorate teaching across all subject areas, thereby inspiring learners to reach their potential - and go beyond it.

Through a highly practical and inclusive approach, the book equips you with a range of common-sense strategies and tools designed to build on your existing knowledge and skills. They include:

- An easy to follow six-stage framework for effective teaching and learning that presents clear and fresh thinking about what helps learners succeed.
- 51 tried and tested strategies, tools and templates to enhance your creative thinking.
- Diverse case studies showing how other teachers have used creativity to enhance their teaching and get the desired results.
- A CD containing electronic versions of a range of key documents from the book which can form the basis of your own tailored development programme.

Award-winning authors Brin Best and Will Thomas draw on a wealth of teaching experience from a range of schools in the UK. With the aid of interactive self-evaluation exercises, they guide you through a step-by-step model that will pinpoint what you need to do to take your teaching to the next level. The book will help you make the transition from a talented teacher to a truly creative teacher, and will help you rediscover the joy of teaching within the contemporary classroom

Zielgruppe

Teachers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Best, Brin

Thomas, Will

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creativity, teaching and learning
Chapter 2: Vision
Chapter 3: Climate
Chapter 4: Teaching and learning strategies
Chapter 5: Reflection
Chapter 6: Professional competence
Chapter 7: Teacher's personal domain
Chapter 8: Self-evaluation tools
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Author details
Bibliography
Other resources and information (internet, contact addresses etc.)
Indexes CD

Über Autor(innen)

Brin Best is an education consultant, writer and trainer. He is the director of the training and consultancy company Innovation for Education Ltd.
Will Thomas is a training consultant and performance coach. He is the director of the training company Vision 4 Learning Ltd.