Ways not to kill classroom creativity. Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers Marvin Bartel - © 2001, updated Apri 3, 2013 ". . creativity scores had been steadily rising. . .until 1990.
Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. " from: Bronson, Po & Merryman, Ashley. King Edward VI.
A-level. Do Your Students Understand the Material, or Just Memorize and Forget? Have you ever heard of Eric Mazur?
If you teach physics and are into that discipline’s pedagogical literature, in all likelihood you have. But Mazur, who teaches physics at Harvard, is someone all of us should know. The reference at the end of this post contains a succinct and compelling introduction to his work. Mazur started out teaching like most of us—he lectured, pretty much all the time, until he discovered a problem.