Structure And Improvisation In Creative Teaching

Author : R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139500340

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Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching by R. Keith Sawyer Pdf

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.

Author : Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807761212

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The Creative Classroom by Keith Sawyer Pdf

The Creative Classroom presents an original, compelling vision of schools where teaching and learning are centered on creativity. Drawing on the latest research as well as his studies of jazz and improvised theater, Sawyer describes curricula and classroom practices that will help educators get started with a new style of teaching, guided improvisation, where students are given freedom to explore within structures provided by the teacher. Readers will learn how to improve learning outcomes in all subjects—from science and math to history and language arts—by helping students master content-area standards at the same time as they increase their creative potential. This book shows how teachers and school leaders can work together to overcome all-too-common barriers to creative teaching—leadership, structure, and culture—and collaborate to transform schools into creative organizations. Book Features: Presents a research-based approach to teaching and learning for creativity. Identifies which learning outcomes support creativity and offers practical advice for how to teach for these outcomes. Shows how students learn content-area knowledge while also learning to be creative with that knowledge. Describes principles and techniques that teachers can use in all subjects. Demonstrates that a combination of school structures, cultures, incentives, and leadership are needed to support creative teaching and learning.

Author : Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807777633

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The Creative Classroom by Keith Sawyer Pdf

The Creative Classroom presents an original, compelling vision of schools where teaching and learning are centered on creativity. Drawing on the latest research as well as his studies of jazz and improvised theater, Sawyer describes curricula and classroom practices that will help educators get started with a new style of teaching, guided improvisation, where students are given freedom to explore within structures provided by the teacher. Readers will learn how to improve learning outcomes in all subjects—from science and math to history and language arts—by helping students master content-area standards at the same time as they increase their creative potential. This book shows how teachers and school leaders can work together to overcome all-too-common barriers to creative teaching—leadership, structure, and culture—and collaborate to transform schools into creative organizations. “This work will make it easier for educators to harness and develop the creative potential of the people around them—young or old.” —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University “This guide is important for all educators that are seeking to be in sync with the changing demands of the 21st century.” —Kylie Peppler, Indiana University Bloomington “Keith Sawyer has written a wise and judicious book that will challenge and inspire teachers at all levels and in all disciplines.” —Ellen Winner, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education “Keith Sawyer is a field leader in studies of creativity and education and he does not disappoint with this text. If teachers take one thing from this book, it’s to say ‘Yes!’ to kids’ voices.” —Erica Halverson, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author : Clay Drinko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982169237

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Play Your Way Sane by Clay Drinko Pdf

Stop negative thoughts, assuage anxiety, and live in the moment with these fun, easy games from improv expert Clay Drinko. If you’ve been feeling lost lately, you’re not alone! Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans were experiencing record levels of loneliness and anxiety. And in our current political turmoil, it’s safe to say that people are looking for new tools to help them feel more present, positive, and in sync with the world. So what better way to get there than play? In Play Your Way Sane, Dr. Clay Drinko offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress and reconnect with the people around you. Divided into twelve fun sections, including “Killing Debbie Downer” and “Thou Shalt Not Be Judgy,” the games emphasize openness, reciprocation, and active listening as the keys to a mindful and satisfying life. Whether you’re looking to improve your personal relationships, find new meaning at work, or just survive our trying times, Play Your Way Sane offers serious self-help with a side of Second City sass.

Author : Edward J. Nevraumont,Nicholas P. Hanson,Kurt Smeaton
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000048589376

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The Ultimate Improv Book by Edward J. Nevraumont,Nicholas P. Hanson,Kurt Smeaton Pdf

A complete improvisation curriculum in twenty-four class-length units. This comprehensive resource who shows the who, what, when, why and how of comedy improvisation. Main topics: What is improv?; Improvisational skills; Structuring; Strategies; How to start your own improvisation team. Includes many games and exercises.

Author : Angela Pickard,Patricia Maude
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317702245

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Teaching Physical Education Creatively by Angela Pickard,Patricia Maude Pdf

Teaching Physical Education Creatively provides knowledge and understanding in order to engage creatively with the primary Physical Education curriculum for both trainee teachers and qualified teachers. It is full of ideas for developing the teaching of dance, games, gymnastics and outdoor and adventurous activities in an innovative and engaging manner. With an emphasis on developing creative teaching processes by building from children’s curiosity, imagination and need to explore and move, it forges clear links between research and practice, and offers suggestions for developing exciting, engaging new approaches to teaching physical education. Key topics explored include: Physical Competence and Physical Literacy Creative ways to develop the teaching of dance, games, gymnastics and outdoor and adventurous activities Developing understanding of space, speed and dynamics Creative lesson planning Inclusive approaches and aspects of differentiation Teaching Physical Education Creatively presents the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching and children’s learning. Packed with practical guidance and inspiration for lively, enjoyable physical education, it is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in initial teacher training, practicing teachers, and undergraduate students of physical education.

Author : Michael Corbett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137275493

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Rethinking Rural Literacies by Michael Corbett Pdf

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1566081475

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Drama Games & Improvs by Anonim Pdf

A curriculum guide using improv games to teach basic drama skills. If used with 'Improv Ideas' by the same authors, there are enough games and ideas to provide for over a year's work. Select from over 134 games. It's adaptable to all age groups -- from beginners to experts. The lessons are structured sequentially with emphasis on group building. It is deigned to teach holistically. Students are unaware they are being taught many new skills with every lesson. This curriculum is the culmination of many years of evolution and testing.

Author : Pamela Burnard,Regina Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135049959

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Teaching Music Creatively by Pamela Burnard,Regina Murphy Pdf

Offering a brand new approach to teaching music in the primary classroom, Teaching Music Creatively provides training and qualified teachers with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively deliver a creative music curriculum. Exploring research-informed teaching ideas, diverse practices and approaches to music teaching, the authors offer well-tested strategies for developing children’s musical creativity, knowledge, skills and understanding. With ground-breaking contributions from international experts in the field, this book presents a unique set of perspectives on music teaching. Key topics covered include: Creative teaching, and what it means to teach creatively; Composition, listening and notation; Spontaneous music-making; Group music and performance; The use of multimedia; Integration of music into the wider curriculum; Musical play; Cultural diversity; Assessment and planning. Packed with practical, innovative ideas for teaching music in a lively and creative way, together with the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching methods, Teaching Music Creatively is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in initial teacher training, practising teachers, and undergraduate students of music and education.

Author : Philip Yenawine
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612506111

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Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine Pdf

"What’s going on in this picture?" With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

Author : R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134799053

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Pretend Play As Improvisation by R. Keith Sawyer Pdf

Everyday conversations including gossip, boasting, flirting, teasing, and informative discussions are highly creative, improvised interactions. Children's play is also an important, often improvisational activity. One of the most improvisational games among 3- to 5-year-old children is social pretend play--also called fantasy play, sociodramatic play, or role play. Children's imaginations have free reign during pretend play. Conversations in these play episodes are far more improvisational than the average adult conversation. Because pretend play occurs in a dramatized, fantasy world, it is less constrained by social and physical reality. This book adds to our understanding of preschoolers' pretend play by examining it in the context of a theory of improvisational performance genres. This theory, derived from in-depth analyses of the implicit and explicit rules of theatrical improvisation, proves to generalize to pretend play as well. The two genres share several characteristics: * There is no script; they are created in the moment. * There are loose outlines of structure which guide the performance. * They are collective; no one person decides what will happen. Because group improvisational genres are collective and unscripted, improvisational creativity is a collective social process. The pretend play literature states that this improvisational behavior is most prevalent during the same years that many other social and cognitive skills are developing. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 begin to develop representations of their own and others' mental states as well as learn to represent and construct narratives. Freudian psychologists and other personality theorists have identified these years as critical in the development of the personality. The author believes that if we can demonstrate that children's improvisational abilities develop during these years--and that their fantasy improvisations become more complex and creative--it might suggest that these social skills are linked to the child's developing ability to improvise with other creative performers.

Author : Keith Johnstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136610455

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Impro by Keith Johnstone Pdf

Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers, called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills', and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

Author : Robert Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015053175116

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Creating Conversations by Robert Keith Sawyer Pdf

Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is a problem for scientists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally?

Author : Tom Salinsky,Deborah Frances-White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350026179

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The Improv Handbook by Tom Salinsky,Deborah Frances-White Pdf

The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.

Author : Sandra Caruso,Paul Clemens
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015024933544

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The Actor's Book of Improvisation by Sandra Caruso,Paul Clemens Pdf