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Give your students a leg up and improve learning outcomes with this revolutionary, hands-on approach to teaching

In Cultivating Curiosity: Teaching and Learning Reimagined, distinguished educator and author Doreen Gehry Nelson inspires anyone yearning to break away from formulaic teaching. Told from dozens of powerful and personal perspectives, the effectiveness and versatility of the Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning described in the book is backed by years of quantitative and qualitative data.

You'll learn how applying this cross-curricular methodology can transform your K-12 teaching practice, regardless of changes in content standards. The book includes:

  • Discussions about how to launch creative and critical thinking in your students
  • Explanations of the methodology's 6 Steps of Backward Thinking that invigorate the teaching experience and dramatically improve learning
  • The inception of the methodology and the

    Table of Contents

    FOREWORD Frank Gehry, Architect

    Eugene Tucker, EdD

    INTRODUCTION

    SECTION I Creative Thinking by Design

    CHAPTER 1 Not Arts and Crafts

    CHAPTER 2 Shaping the Methodology

    CHAPTER 3 The City

    CHAPTER 4 The Methodology

    CHAPTER 5 Owning and Reusing Information

    CHAPTER 6 In a Nutshell

    SECTION II

    CHAPTER 7 Goodbye to Formulaic Teaching

    CHAPTER 8 “I’m Not Creative”

    CHAPTER 9 A Return to the Sandbox

    CHAPTER 10 Breaking Out of the Comfort Zone

    CHAPTER 11 It Takes Courage

    CHAPTER 12 When Administrators Get It

    CHAPTER 13 Try a Little Trickery (It Works)

    CHAPTER 14 “But I Already Do This”

    CHAPTER 15 A Learning Community of Teachers (Cohort Groups . . . Food Matters)

    CHAPTER 16 The Importance of “Why”

    SECTION III Trust

    CHAPTER 17 Developing a Design-Based Learning Classroom

    CHAPTER 18 Making Curriculum Physical

    CHAPTER 19 The History Wall

    IN CLOSING

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    INDEX

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 11 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781119824169
      978-1119824169
      ISBN-10 1119824168
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      Teaching skills and techniques

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Give your students a leg up and improve learning outcomes with this revolutionary, hands-on approach to teaching

      In Cultivating Curiosity: Teaching and Learning Reimagined, distinguished educator and author Doreen Gehry Nelson inspires anyone yearning to break away from formulaic teaching. Told from dozens of powerful and personal perspectives, the effectiveness and versatility of the Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning described in the book is backed by years of quantitative and qualitative data.

      You'll learn how applying this cross-curricular methodology can transform your K-12 teaching practice, regardless of changes in content standards. The book includes:

      • Discussions about how to launch creative and critical thinking in your students
      • Explanations of the methodology's 6 Steps of Backward Thinking that invigorate the teaching experience and dramatically improve learning
      • The inception of the methodology and the

        Table of Contents

        FOREWORD Frank Gehry, Architect

        Eugene Tucker, EdD

        INTRODUCTION

        SECTION I Creative Thinking by Design

        CHAPTER 1 Not Arts and Crafts

        CHAPTER 2 Shaping the Methodology

        CHAPTER 3 The City

        CHAPTER 4 The Methodology

        CHAPTER 5 Owning and Reusing Information

        CHAPTER 6 In a Nutshell

        SECTION II

        CHAPTER 7 Goodbye to Formulaic Teaching

        CHAPTER 8 “I’m Not Creative”

        CHAPTER 9 A Return to the Sandbox

        CHAPTER 10 Breaking Out of the Comfort Zone

        CHAPTER 11 It Takes Courage

        CHAPTER 12 When Administrators Get It

        CHAPTER 13 Try a Little Trickery (It Works)

        CHAPTER 14 “But I Already Do This”

        CHAPTER 15 A Learning Community of Teachers (Cohort Groups . . . Food Matters)

        CHAPTER 16 The Importance of “Why”

        SECTION III Trust

        CHAPTER 17 Developing a Design-Based Learning Classroom

        CHAPTER 18 Making Curriculum Physical

        CHAPTER 19 The History Wall

        IN CLOSING

        ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

        INDEX

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