Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to today’s teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students’ creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic skills. Based on cutting-edge psychological research on creativity, the text debunks common misconceptions about creativity, describes how learning environments can support both creativity and the Common Core, offers creative lessons and insights for teaching English language arts and mathematics, and includes assessments for creativity and Common Core learning. Featuring numerous classroom examples, this practical resource will empower teachers to think of the Common Core and creativity as encompassing complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, goals. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Shows how teaching skills mandated by the CCSS and teaching for creativity can reinforce one another.</li> <li> Helps teachers better understand what creativity is, how to develop it, and how to assess it in meaningful ways.</li> <li> Examines the many misconceptions about creativity that prevent teachers from doing their best work.</li> <li> Provides classroom examples, ideas, and lesson plans from successful teachers across disciplines.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Baer, John

Beghetto, Ronald A.

Kaufman, James C.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Uncertainty x Design: Educating for Possible Futures

Uncertainty x Design

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Cambridge University Press

If a fundamental goal of schooling is to prepare young people for the unknowable future, why do we assign students so many clearly defined tasks with predetermined solutions?
According to educator and creativity expert Ronald A. Beghetto, the best way to unleash students' problem solving and creativity—and thus prepare them to face real-world problems—is to incorporate complex challenges that teach students to respond productively to uncertainty. In this thought-provoking book, Beghetto explains
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<li>How to foster "possibility thinking" to help students open up their thinking in creative, sometimes counterintuitive ways.</li>
<li>The process of lesson unplanning, a way of transforming existing lessons, activities, and assignments into more complex classroom challenges.</li>
<li>Four basic action principles that teachers and students can use to design and solve complex challenges both inside and outside the classroom.</li>
<li>The steps for creating legacy challenges, which require students to identify a problem, develop a solution, and ensure that their work makes a lasting contribution.</li>
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With planning forms and detailed sample activities, this practical guide will enable teachers at every grade level to design a full range of challenges in any subject area. Invite uncertainty into your classroom—and discover what your students are capable of.

What If?: Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

ASCD

Beautiful Risks: Having the Courage to Teach and Learn Creatively

This book is about knowing when creative action is worth the risk and when it is not. This includes developing the awareness, courage, and confidence to support and take risks when it is beneficial to do so in the classroom. It also includes being able to recognize when certain risks should be avoided. The key is knowing when and how to take creative action in a way that not only makes sense for the situation at hand, but also stands to make a positive contribution to others. The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks, and maximize the potential benefits.

Science & Math

Technology

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This book is about knowing when creative action is worth the risk and when it is not. This includes developing the awareness, courage, and confidence to support and take risks when it is beneficial to do so in the classroom. It also includes being able to recognize when certain risks should be avoided. The key is knowing when and how to take creative action in a way that not only makes sense for the situation at hand, but also stands to make a positive contribution to others. The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks, and maximize the potential benefits.

The stories in the book are stitched together like a quilt giving you an overview of the mosaic of failure but also shining a light on the components of failure. The stories provide an insight into how you can create the conditions where you're going to take risks together and then experience failure together. The narratives are from people who examined their favorite failures, pulled the stories apart and provided us with an opportunity to understand how failure is not just one moment or one set of emotions. These stories provide us with a glimpse into how we can approach teaching, learning and setbacks with more humility and more humanity. It's more than just about getting unstuck, because failure has its own shape, it's own momentum, and shapes who we are all trying to become.

My Favorite Failure: How Setbacks Can Lead to Learning and Growth

McBain, Laura

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My Favorite Failure

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