The Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit [Paperback]

This book aims to help you become a more effective teacher through a new teaching and learning framework which centres on creativity. Inside you will learn how to use creativity to reinvigorate teaching across all subject areas, inspiring learners to reach their potential. 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 five-stage framework for effective teaching and learning that presents clear and fresh thinking about what helps learners succeed

* Over 200 strategies, tools and tips to enhance your creative thinking and that of your students

* Diverse case studies showing how other teachers have used creativity to enhance their teaching and get the desired results



The book will help you make the transition from a talented teacher to a truly creative teacher, and will help you to rediscover the joy of teaching within the contemporary classroom.



A companion website for the book is available at www.creativityforlearning.co.uk

This book is timely and refreshingly engaging. Forget your preconceptions of collage and mime; this book looks at 360? creativity, from the perspectives of pupils, teachers and school systems. This book is about real change, not just about new teaching initiatives. In the introduction it identifies creativity as the principle factor that binds together all effective teachers; and states loudly and clearly that effective teaching enables better learning. Having acknowledged this, the book becomes a blueprint for teachers who wish to push themselves and the system to create significantly better opportunities and outcomes for children and young people. At one level it provides practical pedagogic approaches to expllc/