Creativity

When students read comics or create their own, they have an opportunity to develop their creativity, critical thinking, and communication and collaboration skills.

The author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! chats with us about creativity, drawing as empathy, and letting kids “do 51 percent of the work.”

Make a daily habit of starting every ELA class with a poem—they’re short and intense, connect to other reading, and inspire student writing.

Activities that incorporate speaking and listening, reading and writing, math, music, science, art, and drama—and are parent-friendly.

Creativity is a valuable skill, and there are common strategies teachers can use to help students develop it.

Year mapping allows students to see what they’ve learned in your class, and it’s a great resource for your incoming class.

Look through the door of one classroom and you might see the students hunched over, not engaged, even frowning. Look through the door of another classroom, and you might see a room full of lively students, eager, engaged and participating. What is the second teacher doing that the first one isn't? He or she is using creativity in that classroom.

Active strategies for annotation like collaborative work and illustration increase students’ comprehension and retention.

Transformational teachers create experiences in their classrooms, melding the art and science of any subject and making their students care about learning.

Increased self-confidence and self-understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition are among the many reasons for teaching the arts.