Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching

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Summary

Draws on studies of creative, improvised performance to identify practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.

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Foreword
What makes good teachers great? The artful balance of structure and improvisation
The Teacher Paradox
Professional improvisation and teacher education: opening the conversation
Creativity, pedagogic partnerships, and the improvisatory space of teaching
Improvising within the system: creating new teacher performances in inner city schools
Teaching for creativity with disciplined improvisation
The Learning Paradox
Taking advantage of structure to improvise in instruction: examples from elementary school classrooms
Breaking through the communicative cocoon: improvisation in secondary school foreign language classrooms
Improvising with adult English language learners
Productive improvisation and collective creativity: lessons from the dance studio
The Curriculum Paradox
How 'scripted' materials might support improvisational teaching: insights from the implementation of a reading comprehension curriculum
Disciplined improvisation to extend young children's scientific thinking
Improvisational understanding in the mathematics classroom
Conclusion: presence and the art of improvisational teaching
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