A toolkit for creative teaching in post-compulsory education

Are you looking for ways to encourage learners to think more creatively?  Do you need ideas for fun and engaging activities for individuals and groups?  Would you like a practical step-by-step guide written by practitioners for practitioners?  YES? Then this is the book for you! This is the essential resource for trainees and teachers working in the PCET sector who are looking for new and creative ways of engaging and motivating their learners. The book contains 50 brilliant activities that can be used in a variety of settings and applied to different subject areas. The authors give specific details relating to planning, preparation and implementation for each activity and, in addition, suggest a whole range of further variations for each activity to try out too! Key features include:  50 practical and innovative teaching activities  Practical tips to get the most from each activity  Variations and subject-specific examples  Thinking Points to encourage reflection  What Next signposts to further reading  A theoretical framework which sets the activities within the context of creativity and innovation  A Toolkit for Creative Teaching in Post-Compulsory Education is an essential handbook for teacher training students and for new and experienced teachers undertaking Professional Development.

A Toolkit for Creative Teaching in Post-Compulsory Education

Education & Teaching

Williamson, Sarah

Eastwood, Linda

Ormondroyd, Chris

Coates, Jennie

Dixon, Liz

Harvey, Josie

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

Elevator Bird

Kids and their parents will love this quirky story about kindness, friendship, and a team coming together to make one bird's dream come true...\nIt takes a strong team to keep the Hotel running smoothly, and Elevator Bird is at the center of it all.\nHe helps guests get to their rooms and gives great advice about all the best sights in town. He helps the staff get where they need to go, and always has an encouraging word. Elevator Bird makes everyone's day brighter.\nSo when he confesses to his friend Mousie that he's always longed for a room with a view, Mousie springs into action. All his friends at the Hotel hatch a marvelous plan to make sure Elevator Bird has the nest he deserves.\nSarah Williamson spins a charming tale of friends working together to make a dream come true.\nFrom School Library Journal\nPreS-Gr 2—All are welcome at the hotel, and it takes a big team to ensure that it runs smoothly. Mr. Rumpley is the manager, who oversees the daily operations. The worms are the porters, Jane and Olivia the turtles work at reception, and Mousey does the housekeeping. No job is too big or too small. At the center of it all is Elevator Bird, who must take the guests up and down in the elevator and welcome everyone in, both tall and small. Elevator Bird always has a kind word to offer and is very helpful to his hotel coworkers. He loves his job, but he wishes he could get out to enjoy the city he knows so well a little bit more. He shares his dreams of escaping his basement room with Mousey, who then tells Mr. Rumpley. Before long, the rest of the staff is involved, and they surprise Elevator Bird with a brand-new home, complete with the view of his dreams. From cover to cover, complete with fun endpapers and gorgeous spreads, quirky, colorful, and expressive animal illustrations pair well with the funny, unpredictable text on each page. There are giggle-inducing asides, details to pore over, and clues to each worker's personality in vivid details. Just as every job matters at the hotel, every animal has a part to play in this sweet story about showing up for a friend. VERDICT A beyond charming story about kindness and friendship, sure to bring a smile to the face of every reader.—Elizabeth Blake, Fields Corner Lib., Dorchester, MA

Children's Books

Animals

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Kids and their parents will love this quirky story about kindness, friendship, and a team coming together to make one bird's dream come true...\nIt takes a strong team to keep the Hotel running smoothly, and Elevator Bird is at the center of it all.\nHe helps guests get to their rooms and gives great advice about all the best sights in town. He helps the staff get where they need to go, and always has an encouraging word. Elevator Bird makes everyone's day brighter.\nSo when he confesses to his friend Mousie that he's always longed for a room with a view, Mousie springs into action. All his friends at the Hotel hatch a marvelous plan to make sure Elevator Bird has the nest he deserves.\nSarah Williamson spins a charming tale of friends working together to make a dream come true.

We write this book for two audiences. The first is leaders who are embracing the changes within our organizations and want to evolve and grow their leadership. This book will resonate most with leaders adopting this new language, as they know there are paradigmatic Cultural (Culture with a capital "C") changes that come with it. The second audience? Aspiring leaders. We have taught enough leadership courses at enough universities to know there is a new generation of leadership coming up through the pipeline, and they are begging for a different language. They know the "old" paradigm of leadership is antiquated and, in some cases, broken. We do not currently have a language of leadership that gives us the opportunity to have genuine and relevant conversations about what it means to lead in this era. We are hopeful our contribution here will advance this conversation in some way. In short, we've got fire-and it has changed our lives. We want to share this fire with you, so we can learn with you and from you. In the nine chapters that follow, we will lay out a framework built from small language changes you can make as early as tomorrow and bolder language changes that will take time to introduce. You will have to gauge your own tolerance. Some of the bigger changes suggested later in this book might not be right for you or your organization at the present time. Remember, it took me nearly 15 years to build and fully understand this new language, and it is unrealistic to think this is something you can adopt over a long weekend.

THE SECRET TO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Business & Money

Shepherd, Dr. Quintin

Management & Leadership

Compassionate Leadership LLC

Actually written by two real kids, Kids Cook! includes real food menus to be enjoyed by everyone in the family. The sixth title in the Kids Can! series.

Kids Cook!: Fabulous Food for the Whole Family (Kids Can! Series)

Arts, Music & Photography

WorthyKids

This bright, gentle, thoughtful picture book explores friendship and natural life cycles for readers young and old Cactus and Flower spend their days in the desert, side by side. They watch the sun come up; they watch the sun go down. They play with their animal friends. And they grow, slowly but surely. Then one day, Flower loses a petal. Cactus and Flower know what this means. But they know, too, that this is the way life goes: Slowly but surely, petals will fall, and new buds will bloom.

Cactus and Flower: A Book About Life Cycles

Science, Nature & How It Works

Harry N. Abrams

Where Are You?

For fans of Hervé Tullet and Leo Lionni, here is a simple, lively exploration of colors, shapes, and landscapes. “Where are you?” Under the bridge, out of the pond, through the sandbox—these are just a few answers as a little green snake follows a little pink snake in a day at the park. Sarah Williamson’s debut picture book is both a delightfully energetic introduction to prepositions and search-and-find concepts, and a celebration of friendship and imagination. With playful text and fresh, lively illustrations, this is the perfect book to inspire young readers, artists, and explorers.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

From the creator of Where Are You? comes this vibrant tale of a taxi-driving elephant and everyone--and everything--he picks up along the way. Let's go! Beep, beep! Let's go! Colors and sounds collide as Tuski the elephant gets ready for adventure. And there's no limit to what Tuski's red taxi can pick up along the way. From friends like a blue bird, an every-colored fish, and a trail of ladybugs, to objects big and small, like a lemon and a pea, peaches, and pancakes, Tuski's taxi takes them all! But as they venture up the hill, Tuski's packed taxi might just take a tumble.

Let's Go!

From the creator of Where Are You? comes this vibrant tale of a taxi-driving elephant and everyone--and everything--he picks up along the way. Let's go!Beep, beep! Let's go! Colors and sounds collide as Tuski the elephant gets ready for adventure. And there's no limit to what Tuski's red taxi can pick up along the way. From friends like a blue bird, an every-colored fish, and a trail of ladybugs, to objects big and small, like a lemon and a pea, peaches, and pancakes, Tuski's taxi takes them all! But as they venture up the hill, Tuski's packed taxi might just take a tumble.

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A Toolkit for Creative Teaching in Post-Compulsory Education

Elevator Bird

Elevator Bird

THE SECRET TO TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Kids Cook!: Fabulous Food for the Whole Family (Kids Can! Series)

Cactus and Flower: A Book About Life Cycles

Where Are You?

Where Are You?

Let's Go!

Let's Go!