A great article - from Margaret Haviland
A few weeks ago fellow Voices blogger Shelley Wright wrote a provocative blog on flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy and beginning the learning experience with Creativity. As the person most directly responsible for our school’s professional development I have been wondering what professional development looks like when you turn Bloom’s on its head.
More: http://plpnetwork.com/2012/06/05/encouraging-teachers-teach-creativity/
Showing posts with label creative teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative teaching. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Monday, February 28, 2011
How to be an explorer of the world.
The title is from a favourite book of mine by Keri Smith.
My friend Bruce Hammonds says the title of this interesting book sums up what learning ought to be all about - students as explorers of their world. I agree.
He then goes on the express his real concerns about creative teaching [or rather the lack of it it.]
My friend Bruce Hammonds says the title of this interesting book sums up what learning ought to be all about - students as explorers of their world. I agree.
He then goes on the express his real concerns about creative teaching [or rather the lack of it it.]
He begins: "I would like to think that creative teaching is alive and well but I am not sure I believe that anymore.
Being creative has always been a hard road to follow particularly since the introduction of the curriculum and accountability and assessment demands imposed on school in the mid eighties. And this has only escalated with demands for schools to focus on the 'three Rs' leading up to the most recent reactionary concept of National Standards - themselves one step away from National Testing and League Tables."
More here:
http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2011/02/seeking-using-and-creating-education.html
Being creative has always been a hard road to follow particularly since the introduction of the curriculum and accountability and assessment demands imposed on school in the mid eighties. And this has only escalated with demands for schools to focus on the 'three Rs' leading up to the most recent reactionary concept of National Standards - themselves one step away from National Testing and League Tables."
More here:
http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2011/02/seeking-using-and-creating-education.html
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