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. "The Creativity Crisis. " Newsweek, July 10, 2010, retrieved July 27, 2010 from PROLOG: Many teachers still assume that creativity is innate and random. Before the industrial revolution, work and creativity was woven into the fabric of everyday life. Will universal pubic schools fade away like shop classes at the end of industrial life, or will they transform themselves into a new life form to meet new needs? #1. Real artwork is based on the child's own experience, memory, observation, and/or imagination. . # 2.
What is fair? When grading is needed in art, it is only fair that we have a way to measure and achnowledge new learning. . # 3. How can I encourage more imagination, better observation, and expressing what is remembered? # 4. . # 5. The Socratic Method. The Socratic Method:Teaching by Asking Instead of by Tellingby Rick Garlikov The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school.
I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript. The class was conducted on a Friday afternoon beginning at 1:30, late in May, with about two weeks left in the school year. This time was purposely chosen as one of the most difficult times to entice and hold these children's concentration about a somewhat complex intellectual matter. The point was to demonstrate the power of the Socratic method for both teaching and also for getting students involved and excited about the material being taught. The experiment was to see whether I could teach these students binary arithmetic (arithmetic using only two numbers, 0 and 1) only by asking them questions. 1) "How many is this?
" 4) Another way? CTL Events - Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Learning theory - models, product and process. Photo by Antenna on Unsplash Contents: introduction · what do people think learning is?
· learning as a product · learning as a process · experience · reflective thinking · making connections · committing and acting · task-conscious or acquisition learning, and learning-conscious or formalized learning · the behaviourist orientation to learning · the cognitive orientation to learning · the humanistic orientation to learning · the social/situational orientation to learning · the constructivist/social constructivist orientation to learning · further reading · references · how to cite this article See, also, What is education? Over the last thirty years or so, ‘learning’ has become one of the most used words in the field of education. Adult education became lifelong learning; students became learners, teachers facilitators of learning; schools are now learning environments; learning outcomes are carefully monitored. There has been a similar situation in the field of education.
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