Creative Teaching: Learning with Style

Find out how you can be more creative and encourage more creativity from your students without having to put in hours of extra preparation. This concise, practical guide will help you to gain the confidence to move out of your comfort zone and take some risks, in order to meet the needs of students with a variety of learning styles and needs.This updated edition of Creative Teaching includes practical activities and a variety of strategies to help you to plan exciting, pupil-centred lessons that are easy to integrate into your schemes of work. There is new material on:• independent learning - offering a clear framework for design, delivery and assessment of lessons• transforming the ethos of the school to a positive, creative one• the companion website - offering printable or downloadable checklists, questionnaires and templates.Along with adaptable action plans for improving both your classroom and whole-school ethos, this book creates a cohesive picture of how teachers can make learning easier and more enjoyable for themselves and their pupils.

Table of Contents:
1. Being Creative \ 2. The Creative Classroom \ 3. The Creative School \ Index

About the Author :
David Starbuck is Deputy Head of a secondary school in the UK. David has taught in England, Scotland and Africa, and has been Head of RE, Head of PSHE and Head of Sixth Form. He has a particular interest in developing pupils' independent learning skills and fostering a school-wide enjoyment of learning. He is also Creative Director of Learning Performance, the UK's leading provider of study skills education, where he has written the study skills workshops that are used in around half of the UK's secondary schools.

Review :
‘This is a book that challenges and stimulates teachers to think about how they are teaching and how they can get so much more by re-examining their approach to creative teaching. Packed with thought-provoking sections on different aspects of learning, it also offers practical suggestions and activities for lessons. Written in a fluent and readable style, any teacher will recognise that the author is talking as an experienced practitioner who understands the importance of all aspects of creativity in enriching teaching and learning in the classroom. For teachers and leaders in schools, this book offers a wealth of ideas and challenges about how we should look at teaching and learning in our schools.' Hilda Clarke, Headteacher, Tiffin School, UK 'As teachers, creativity matters to us all. In this book, David Starbuck shows you why it matters and how you can achieve it in your classroom and your school.' Sue Cowley, education consultant, international trainer and author of Getting the Buggers to Behave