Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching

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Paperback | 27 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

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With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between structure and improvisation. The authors draw on studies of jazz, theater improvisation, and dance improvisation to demonstrate that the most creative performers work within similar structures and guidelines. By looking to these creative genres, the book provides practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.

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'This book should be recommended to teachers who are willing to develop creative teaching practices and to take a constructivist teaching approach within their classrooms. It should also be recommended as a useful teachers' training handbook since it provides a key to successful creative teaching approaches that make the fixed structures of expertise productive within the everyday improvisation of classroom practices.' Tim Higgins, London Review of Education

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Foreword
What makes good teachers great? The artful balance of structure and improvisation
The Teacher Paradox
Professional improvisation and teacher education: opening the conversation
Creativity, pedagogic partnerships, and the improvisatory space of teaching
Improvising within the system: creating new teacher performances in inner city schools
Teaching for creativity with disciplined improvisation
The Learning Paradox
Taking advantage of structure to improvise in instruction: examples from elementary school classrooms
Breaking through the communicative cocoon: improvisation in secondary school foreign language classrooms
Improvising with adult English language learners
Productive improvisation and collective creativity: lessons from the dance studio
The Curriculum Paradox
How 'scripted' materials might support improvisational teaching: insights from the implementation of a reading comprehension curriculum
Disciplined improvisation to extend young children's scientific thinking
Improvisational understanding in the mathematics classroom Lyndon
Conclusion: presence and the art of improvisational teaching
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