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Beghetto, Ronald A.; Kaufman, James C.; Baer, John – Teachers College Press, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Skills, Creativity, Creative Development
Pilon, A. Barbara – 1990
The monograph presents a variety of language arts teaching ideas for use with gifted students. Teachers are encouraged to expose children to much literature including poetry, folk tales, riddles, fairy tales, "pourquoi" tales, myths and legends, fantasy, science fiction, and biographies and autobiographies. The document offers the SIMMER theory of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Rabson, Barbara Burchuk, Ed.; Warshaw, Renata Karlin, Ed. – 1980
The book describes Learning to Read through the Arts (LTRTA), a curriculum combining art activities with writing and reading in small group workshops. The methodology of LTRTA has been applied and modified to work with different groups of students: perceptually impaired, reading disabled, and gifted students. Workshops are offered in mixed media,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Pederson, Clara A., Comp. – 1986
One of a series of resource manuals written by participants in the University of North Dakota teacher education programs to help teachers develop more open and responsive classrooms, this booklet focuses on the teaching of creative drama. Following an introduction by Vito Perrone, the titles and authors of the articles are as follows: (1) "'They…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics
Russell, Don W., Ed. – 1984
The collection of instructional plans is designed to offer samples of strategies and ideas to teachers involved with gifted students. Approximately 30 plans are presented for the following areas (sample subtopics in science (atomic fusion), social studies (mores and folkways), mathematics (spatial relations), health and physiology, philosophy, and…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Smutny, Joan Franklin – 2001
This digest paper presents strategies and activities that can be used to encourage gifted students to develop their individual talents in the language arts. Suggestions for exploring poetic language especially free verse, include ideas for creating group poems and catalysts for creating individual poems. Suggestions for exploring the elements of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Lee, Ronald T., Ed. – 1988
One of eight guides in the Arts and Learning series, this guide, which was originally developed through the arts in education program of Homer Central School, New York, contains 25 classroom strategies (prototype units or prototype instructional strategies) that can be used by teachers to infuse the arts into their teaching of language…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Community Resources, Creative Development
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 2003
This document presents curriculum guidelines intended for use as a recommended curriculum for children attending early childhood programs in Oklahoma. The introductory section describes critical characteristics of quality early childhood programs, noting that early childhood programs should be appropriate for the age, developmental level, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavior Standards, Child Health, Child Safety