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About This Book
Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching and leadership beliefs and practices that undermine creativity; and discover strategies for successfully navigating challenges that your team may face along the way.
Benefits:
Consider the four main challenges that educators and students face in pursuit of creativity.
Read research and real-life examples documenting creativity in practice.
Learn about the critical elements for developing creative environments.
Discover how you can apply the presented meta-rubric (a rubric for rubrics), and practice creativity assessment with the provided reproducible composite rubrics.
Gain insight on five practices that policymakers can use to keep creativity central in education.
Topics : Teaching Strategies
Table Of Content
About the Author
Chapter 1: Why Creativity Is Vital
Creative Discomfort
Delayed Feedback
Abdication of Authority
Disciplinary Silos.
Chapter 2: Building a Creative Culture
Mistake-Tolerant Culture
Rigorous Decision-Making System
Culture That Nurtures Creativity
Leadership Team That Models and Supports Creativity
Creative Environment Rubric
Chapter 3: How Educators and Leaders Discourage Creativity
Practices That Undermine Creativity
Rare y Give Students Unfettered Rein
Offer Creative Work to Students as a Reward
Focus on Individual Rather Than Group Work
Use Brainstorming as the Best Way to Generate New Ideas.
Demand That Student Work Is Right the First Time
Insist That Creative Work Is Immune From Evaluation and Criticism
Avoid Assessment of Creativity
Attitudes and Beliefs That Undermine Creativity
Creativity Is a Natural Talent or Gift. .26
Real Creative Work Is Distinctly Original
Creativity Cannot Happen Without Inspiration
Left-Brain and Right-drain Differences Heavily Influence Creativity
Creative Inspiration Is Like Lightning
Standards of Evidence
Personal Beliefs
Personal Experience
Collective Experience
Systematic Observation
Preponderance of Evidence
Chapter 4: How Educators and Leaders Can Encourage Creativity
Eight Dimensions of Creativity Assessment
The Current State Of Creativity Assessment
Metarubric for Assessing Creativity Rubrics
Chapter 5: Adapting the Four Essential Questions of PLCs to Creativity
PLCs and Achievement i
Using the Four Essential Questions to Enhance Creativity and Achievement
Chapter 6: Creativity for Education Policymakers
Inclusion
Collaboration
Debate, Dissent, and Discipline in Decision Making
Accountability
Forgiveness
References and Resources
About the Authors
Douglas Reeves:
Douglas Reeves, PhD, has worked with education, business, nonprofit, and government organizations throughout the world. He is the author of more than 30 books and more than 100 articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness.
ISBN: 9786038147627
Author: Douglas Reeves
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2018
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 88
