Download or read book Measuring Creative Potential of Primary School Students and the Perspectives of Students and Teachers from Kosovo A Mixed Method Study written by Njomza Llullaku and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research measures the creative potential for a representative sample of pre-high school students in Kosovo, it also investigates and develops on both teacher’s and student’s explicit and implicit understandings of creativity and its impact in the classroom. Using mixed methods, the integrated results are utilised to cultivate a rationale for the student’s level of creative potential and offer solutions for moving forward.
Download or read book Teachers and Students Perspectives of School Based Opportunities for Student Creativity written by Laurel Brandon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mixed-methods study examined teachers' responses on the Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation (ICI) Index instrument's confirmatory data set (n=220). ICI Index scores represented teachers' predictions of how students would rate their school's support for student creativity, which was assumed to represent the teachers' perspective of the actual support for student creativity at the school. Teachers of grades 6-8 (n=55) had significantly lower ICI Index scores than teachers of grades 3-5 (n=155; pn=151) did not differ significantly from gifted and talented teachers (n=49) on their ICI scores. Qualitative analysis found that, when asked to give examples of products, performances, and services produced by students that were points of pride, most teachers discussed their own creative teaching practices rather than student-initiated projects. Most major content areas were represented in these points of pride, and about one-quarter of responses were interdisciplinary. The most common audience for these points of pride was the school community. Time was often discussed as a support for creativity by respondents, and special periods, including Enrichment Clusters and Genius Hour, were common periods of time that teachers reserved for student creativity. Teachers with high ICI Index scores usually discussed how the entire school community provided opportunities for all students to be creative, whereas teachers with low ICI Index scores reported that support for student creativity was absent or limited to specific groups, such as gifted students or the school chorus. Implications for practice and future research are offered in the conclusion of this study.
Download or read book The Effectiveness of the Use of Imagination and Creativity in the Arts Education from the Perspectives of Teachers Supervisors and Students in Elementary Schools in Kuwait written by Amenah Alqattan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to develop better pedagogical methods to impact learners at different levels has risen, driven by technological advancements. National governments, in response to research or critical evaluations, have instituted curriculum changes to enhance creative learning, especially among younger learners. The use of imagination in the Arts though supported by evidence of benefits has been implemented with mixed results in some contexts. The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of imagination in the Arts education from the perspectives of students, teachers, and supervisors in elementary schools in the State of Kuwait. To achieve this purpose, data was collected from elementary school children, teachers, and supervisors. The research adopted mixed methods of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive, and inferential statistics utilising SPSS version 24. Qualitative data was transcribed, translated, coded, and thematically analysed using NVIVO version 12. Results show that the teaching approach of the majority of teachers in the Arts ( 60% ) is based solely on the current curriculum, with little emphasis on imagination. Despite teachers and students acknowledging the importance of the Arts education majority of elementary students still do not demonstrate an interest in the use of classroom . imagination in the A large percentage of elementary students surveyed did not like attending the Arts classes 48%, and more than 76% of the pupils found difficulty creating images. Given that the current Kuwaiti curriculum does not require the implementation of imagination, supervisors found it difficult to enforce, other than recommending it as a preferable approach in teaching. The findings from this research contend that promoting imagination in the Arts education is an essential learning component for Kuwaiti elementary students and argues for its explicit inclusion and effective implementation in the newly revised state curriculum.
Download or read book Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students written by Roza Leikin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks through in the field of mathematical creativity and giftedness. It suggests directions for closing the gap between research in the field of mathematics education and research in the field of creativity and giftedness. It also outlines a research agenda for further research and development in the field.
Download or read book Mathematical Creativity and Mathematical Giftedness written by Florence Mihaela Singer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the relationships between mathematical creativity and mathematical giftedness. It gathers the results of a literature review comprising all papers addressing mathematical creativity and giftedness presented at the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) conferences since 2000. How can mathematical creativity contribute to children’s balanced development? What are the characteristics of mathematical giftedness in early ages? What about these characteristics at university level? What teaching strategies can enhance creative learning? How can young children’s mathematical promise be preserved and cultivated, preparing them for a variety of professions? These are some of the questions addressed by this book. The book offers, among others: analyses of substantial learning environments that promote creativity in mathematics lessons; discussions of a variety of strategies for posing and solving problems; investigations of students’ progress throughout their schooling; and examinations of technological tools and virtual resources meant to enhance learning with understanding. Multiple perspectives in the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical creativity and giftedness are developed to offer a springboard for further research. The theoretical and empirical studies included in the book offer a valuable resource for researchers, as well as for teachers of gifted students in specialized or inclusive settings, at various levels of education.
Download or read book Educational Research and Innovation Fostering Students Creativity and Critical Thinking What it Means in School written by Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and critical thinking are key skills for complex, globalised and increasingly digitalised economies and societies. While teachers and education policy makers consider creativity and critical thinking as important learning goals, it is still unclear to many what it means to develop these skills in a school setting. To make it more visible and tangible to practitioners, the OECD worked with networks of schools and teachers in 11 countries to develop and trial a set of pedagogical resources that exemplify what it means to teach, learn and make progress in creativity and critical thinking in primary and secondary education.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book Assessing the School Climate for Creativity written by Jasmina Ferizovic and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explanatory mixed methods study explored teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of school environment factors that stimulate or inhibit teachers’ creativity. It draws on the componential theory of creativity (Amabile, 1983, 1988, 1996) to discuss individual and school environment factors contributing to teachers’ creative performance. A total of 244 teachers completed the KEYS questionnaire (Amabile, 1995; Amabile, Conti, Lazenby & Herron, 1996), and 17 teachers and 4 principals participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Results of the multiple regression analysis, effect size equal to .55, indicated that Work Group Supports and Challenging Work stimulate, while Organizational Impediments and Workload Pressures inhibit teacher creativity. Using a systems thinking model, qualitative analyses identify either virtuous or vicious cycles of creativity growth resulting in different school climates. Recommendations for practice are proposed for school leaders and policy makers about effective ways to tap teachers’ potential and support their capacity to create.
Download or read book A Study of Creative Potential as Found in Elementary Student Teachers written by Charles Oscar Bates and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching and Detecting The Creative Potential Experience and Perspectives written by Sílvio Manuel Brito and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Detecting The Creative Potential - Experience and Perspectives.
Download or read book World Development Report 2018 written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to make their learning the center of all efforts to promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education’s promise: education is a powerful instrument for eradicating poverty and promoting shared prosperity, but fulfilling its potential requires better policies—both within and outside the education system. Second, the need to shine a light on learning: despite gains in access to education, recent learning assessments reveal that many young people around the world, especially those who are poor or marginalized, are leaving school unequipped with even the foundational skills they need for life. At the same time, internationally comparable learning assessments show that skills in many middle-income countries lag far behind what those countries aspire to. And too often these shortcomings are hidden—so as a first step to tackling this learning crisis, it is essential to shine a light on it by assessing student learning better. Third, how to make schools work for all learners: research on areas such as brain science, pedagogical innovations, and school management has identified interventions that promote learning by ensuring that learners are prepared, teachers are both skilled and motivated, and other inputs support the teacher-learner relationship. Fourth, how to make systems work for learning: achieving learning throughout an education system requires more than just scaling up effective interventions. Countries must also overcome technical and political barriers by deploying salient metrics for mobilizing actors and tracking progress, building coalitions for learning, and taking an adaptive approach to reform.
Download or read book Unleashing the potential written by Marope, P.T.M. and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "UNESCO has recently published the third volume of its Education on the Move series, a series dedicated to the analysis of key trends in education with the hope of inspiring dialogue among policy makers, educators and other key stakeholders on the challenges of education for tomorrow. The latest publication, entitled Unleashing the Potential: Transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training is focused entirely on issues related to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It takes stock of the steadily increasing demands and expectations on TVET systems around the globe and presents recent policy trends in the field of TVET. In their analysis, the authors provide insights into what it takes to unleash the potential of TVET systems around the world. They propose an integrated analytical approach that takes into consideration such factors as economic growth, social equity and issues related to sustainability so that TVET can contribute more effectively to contemporary policy issues such as youth unemployment, gender disparities and climate change. Overall, the book calls for a transformation of TVET systems to enable them to respond to the demands of their contexts. This transformation should enable TVET systems to acquire agility to stay current and responsive to the rapidly changing demands of the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book International Summit on the Teaching Profession Valuing our Teachers and Raising their Status How Communities Can Help written by Schleicher Andreas and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is increasing recognition that teachers will play a key role in preparing students for the challenges of the future. We expect teachers to equip students with the skill set and knowledge required for success in an increasingly global, digital, complex, uncertain and volatile world.
Download or read book A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom written by Paul Baepler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room’s central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed.The importance of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on their special features is paramount. The potential they represent can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls.This book provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book addresses are:• How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a central focal point in the space?• What types of learning activities work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the room?• How can teachers address familiar classroom-management challenges in these unfamiliar spaces?• If assessment and rapid feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a room filled with circular tables and no central focus point?• How do instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger class?• How can students be held accountable when many will necessarily have their backs facing the instructor?• How can instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these spaces?This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or already working in this new classroom environment; for administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping teachers transition to using these new spaces.
Download or read book Guided Inquiry written by Carol C. Kuhlthau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic approach to an exciting form of teaching and learning will inspire students to gain insights and complex thinking skills from the school library, their community, and the wider world. Guided inquiry is a way of thinking, learning, and teaching that changes the culture of a school into a collaborative inquiry community. Global interconnectedness calls for new skills, new knowledge, and new ways of learning to prepare students with the abilities and competencies they need to meet the challenges of a changing world. The challenge for the information-age school is to educate students for living and working in this information-rich technological environment. At the core of being educated today is knowing how to learn and innovate from a variety of sources. Through guided inquiry, students see school learning and real life meshed in meaningful ways. They develop higher order thinking and strategies for seeking meaning, creating, and innovating. Today's schools are challenged to develop student talent, coupling the rich resources of the school library with those of the community and wider world. How well are you preparing your students to draw on the knowledge and wisdom of the past while using today's technology to advance new discoveries in the future? This book is the introduction to guided inquiry. It is the place to begin to consider and plan how to develop an inquiry learning program for your students.
Download or read book Engaging Ideas written by John C. Bean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.
Download or read book Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education World Class How to Build a 21st Century School System written by Schleicher Andreas and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Schleicher - initiator of PISA and an international authority on education policy - offers a unique perspective on education reform.
