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Classroom practice: letting students ask questions

What if teachers stopped shouting “Silence in the classroom!” and started letting students ask questions? Jane Smith tried it with her class – and was thrilled with the results.
 
 

Creativity thrives in the outdoor classroom

Young children thrive on role play and imagining themselves as their favourite fictional character. As educators, it is our duty to offer endless learning opportunities.
 
 

The gadget show project

Julie Meiner, Assistant Headteacher, explains how Kings Oak Learning Centre champions the importance of risk taking in developing the skills that children need.
 

in the latest issue

Editorial - Bursting the education bubble

Welcome to the first re-named edition of Teaching Thinking and Creativity - now called ‘Creative Teaching and Learning’.

School of rock!

Putting music to flm images can show music to young people in a new way. Kof Acheampong reports on the ‘soundtrack composing’ summer workshop he ran with year eight students.

The ‘Morbach monster’

Crispin Andrews explains how to dissect a text with a primary school class – using werewolf legend ‘the Morbach monster’ to explore suspense, scene setting and the fantastic.

Making your own country

In this project pack, Kerrie Sharron explains how helping year seven students invent their own country teaches them about government systems. Here, she plans three lessons – where the country is invented in a state of anarchy, a military coup establishes a dictatorship then an underground resistance begins. In the full pack – featuring eight lessons – a revolution is staged, and the country fnally becomes a democracy. The full pack will be available to buy from Imaginative Minds ltd later this year.

Lured into learning

Secondary school teachers know the importance of a good lesson ‘starter’ – one that intrigues the children and pushes them to ask questions. Hywel Roberts explains why ‘lures’ are so important – and how to fnd good ones.

Technology and learning

We look at five great school projects which bring the latest technology into the classroom. These creative teachers have made maths, bricklaying and 16th century literature accessible to the Bebo generation - with their lateral lesson planning.
 

essential reading

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A Workshop of the Possible

Nurturing Children's Creative Development. What makes this book so valuable to teachers is its emphasis on application, featuring, interviews with children in the midst of the creative process and samples of students' work in science, maths, social studies, and art showing the development of their thinking.
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Building a Creative School

This book shows how creativity can be an approach to and an ethos for every aspect of school life and management and all subject areas.
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Alps Storymaker

Alps Storymaker utilises children's enjoyment of fiction and exploits narrative structures to allow students to understand and practice the techniques of accelerated brain-based learning.
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A Journey Into Childrens Minds

This DVD is about children, teachers and schools and how they learn to think together.
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in the latest issue
Creative Teaching and Learning (formerly Teaching Thinking & Creativity) cover image
Thinking about writing.
School of rock!
Lured into learning.
Focus on Design.
NEW e-learning section.
Cross Curriculum Project Plan: Making your own country.
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