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Killing ideas softly?

The promise and perils of creativity in the classroom

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Killing ideas softly?

The promise and perils of creativity in the classroom

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

Creativity is a hot topic in education. As such, there is no shortage of insights or suggestions for how teachers might incorporate creativity into their curriculum. Wading through these suggestions can, however, be quite daunting. This is because many of these suggestions imply that teachers need to somehow radically change their approach to teaching, adopt a new curriculum, or add-on to their existing curriculum. Consequently, many teachers feel that such changes are not feasible and may even come at the cost of supporting students’ academic learning. This book provides an alternative. Teachers need not adopt a new curriculum, radically change what they are already doing, or attempt to add more to their already overflowing plate of curricular responsibilities. Rather, teaching for and with creativity is often more about doing what one is already doing, only slightly better. The aim of this book is to help teachers understand how they can make slight changes to their own teaching, which can substantially support the development of students’ creative potential and result in a more creative approach to teaching. The insights and practical suggestions presented in this book represent some of the newest and most promising work being done in the field of creativity studies. This book is unique in that it presents teachers with concrete ideas for how to simultaneously support creativity and learning. A particularly novel feature of this book is that it offers a blend of theoretical insights and vivid classroom examples to illustrate the kinds of opportunities and challenges that teachers face when they attempt to teach for and with creativity. As such, this book will provide teachers, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in classroom creativity with new directions for future research and educational practice.

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179

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IAP

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ISBN 10

1623963664

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9781623963668

Uncertainty x Design

Educating for Possible Futures

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Uncertainty x Design

Educating for Possible Futures

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

Educating for possible futures requires viewing uncertainty as an opportunity for taking creative action in the here-and-now. This book is written for educators, researchers, parents, and anyone who wants to learn how to support young people in becoming the creative authors of their own lives.

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191

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Cambridge University Press

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1009081195

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9781009081191

My Favorite Failure

How Setbacks Can Lead to Learning and Growth

By: Ronald A. Beghetto,Laura McBain

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My Favorite Failure

How Setbacks Can Lead to Learning and Growth

By: Ronald A. Beghetto,Laura McBain

The stories in the book are stitched together like a quilt giving you an overview of the mosaic of failure but also shining a light on the components of failure. The stories provide an insight into how you can create the conditions where you're going to take risks together and then experience failure together. The narratives are from people who examined their favorite failures, pulled the stories apart and provided us with an opportunity to understand how failure is not just one moment or one set of emotions. These stories provide us with a glimpse into how we can approach teaching, learning and setbacks with more humility and more humanity. It’s more than just about getting unstuck, because failure has its own shape, it’s own momentum, and shapes who we are all trying to become.

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119

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Rowman & Littlefield

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147585658X

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9781475856583

Beautiful Risks

Having the Courage to Teach and Learn Creatively

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Beautiful Risks

Having the Courage to Teach and Learn Creatively

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

This book is about knowing when creative action is worth the risk and when it is not. This includes developing the awareness, courage, and confidence to support and take risks when it is beneficial to do so in the classroom. It also includes being able to recognize when certain risks should be avoided. The key is knowing when and how to take creative action in a way that not only makes sense for the situation at hand, but also stands to make a positive contribution to others. The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks, and maximize the potential benefits.

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129

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475834748

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9781475834741

What If? Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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What If? Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

If a fundamental goal of schooling is to prepare young people for the unknowable future, why do we assign students so many clearly defined tasks with predetermined solutions? According to educator and creativity expert Ronald A. Beghetto, the best way to unleash students''problem solving and creativity—and thus prepare them to face real-world problems—is to incorporate complex challenges that teach students to respond productively to uncertainty. In this thought-provoking book, Beghetto explains * How to foster "possibility thinking" to help students open up their thinking in creative, sometimes counterintuitive ways. * The process of lesson unplanning, a way of transforming existing lessons, activities, and assignments into more complex classroom challenges. * Four basic action principles that teachers and students can use to design and solve complex challenges both inside and outside the classroom. * The steps for creating legacy challenges, which require students to identify a problem, develop a solution, and ensure that their work makes a lasting contribution. With planning forms and detailed sample activities, this practical guide will enable teachers at every grade level to design a full range of challenges in any subject area. Invite uncertainty into your classroom—and discover what your students are capable of.

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ASCD

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1416626425

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9781416626428

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

By: Ronald A. Beghetto,James C. Kaufman,John Baer

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Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

By: Ronald A. Beghetto,James C. Kaufman,John Baer

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 creativity alongside more traditional academic skills. Based on cutting-edge psychological research on creativity, the text debunks common misconceptions about creativity and describes how learning environments can support both creativity and the Common Core, offers creative lessons and insights for teaching English language arts and mathematics, and includes assessments for creativity and Common Core learning. Featuring numerous classroom examples, this practical resource will empower teachers to think of the Common Core and creativity as encompassing complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, goals. Book Features: Shows how teaching skills mandated by the CCSS and teaching for creativity can reinforce one another. Helps teachers better understand what creativity is, how to develop it, and how to assess it in meaningful ways. Examines the many misconceptions about creativity that prevent teachers from doing their best work. Provides classroom examples, ideas, and lesson plans from successful teachers across disciplines. “This wonderful book makes the important point that teaching to well-designed standards is completely consistent with teaching for creativity. [It] is filled with practical advice for teachers about how to teach to Common Core standards, in both ELA and math, in ways that lead to creative learning outcomes.” —Keith Sawyer, Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Beghetto, and Baer make a strong, nuanced case that knowledge for the sake of knowledge may be acceptable for immediate retention, but knowledge in the service of creating new possibilities has long-term consequences that can’t be ignored by educators and society.” —Scott Barry Kaufman, scientific director, The Imagination Institute and researcher, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania

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145

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Teachers College Press

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0807773506

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9780807773505

Big Wins, Small Steps

How to Lead For and With Creativity

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Big Wins, Small Steps

How to Lead For and With Creativity

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

Don’t sink your school’s creativity— encourage it to set sail! In this book, educational leaders will find the definitive resource for fostering schoolwide creativity. Introducing a groundbreaking framework known as the Small Steps Approach to Instructional Leadership (SAIL), Ronald A. Beghetto shows the way to amazing improvements through small adjustments. Content includes: "Creative leader checklists” summarizing actionable points in each chapter The keys to removing the most difficult creative barriers How to sit with uncertainty instead of letting it derail innovation efforts When to “flow like water”, and when to “stand like a mountain” as you re-focus your school towards creativity

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Corwin Press

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1506343031

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9781506343037

Big Wins, Small Steps

How to Lead For and With Creativity

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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How to Lead For and With Creativity

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Corwin Press

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1506343058

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9781506343051

Beautiful Risks

Having the Courage to Teach and Learn Creatively

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Having the Courage to Teach and Learn Creatively

By: Ronald A. Beghetto

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475834748

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What If? Building Students' Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

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Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

Big Wins, Small Steps

Big Wins, Small Steps

Big Wins, Small Steps

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