Contents include:Part One: Artful AttitudesChapter 1. The Artful PhilosophyChapter 2. Artful Attitudes to LearningChapter 3. Artful Attitudes to CreativityChapter 4. Planning to be ArtfulPart Two: The Artful EducatorChapter 5. The ActorChapter 6. The PlaywrightChapter 7. The Film DirectorChapter 8. The Set DesignerChapter 9. The Prop DesignerChapter 10. The Costume DesignerChapter 11. The StorytellerChapter 12. The AuthorChapter 13. The ArtistChapter 14. The SculptorChapter 15. The Musician and the SingerChapter 16. The DancerChapter 17. The ChefTen Tiny Steps
Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter and teacher trainer, and the author of more than 25 books on education, including How to Survive your First Year in Teaching. Her international bestseller, Getting the Buggers to Behave, is a fixture on university lists, and has been translated into ten different languages. After training as an early years teacher, Sue taught English and drama in secondary schools in the UK and overseas, and she also worked as a supply teacher. She now spends her time writing educational books and articles and is a columnist for Teach Nursery, Teach Primary and Nursery World magazines. Sue works internationally as a teacher trainer, as well as volunteering in primary classrooms and helping to run her local preschool.
The Artful Educator is a breath of fresh air and certainly food for
the soul. How wonderful to read a book that is focused on the
creative and artful teaching of children and on the value of
learning that can't be logged on a spreadsheet. Sue is a master
craftswoman of words a and her voice of experience is both
authentic and believable. Sue is a seasoned teacher, and I for one
will feel more confident facing my classes with her advice on my
bookshelf.Rachel Whitfield, teacher and author
The Artful Educator will spark joy in both teachers and learners.
You don't have to be arty or creative to find yourself rapidly
consumed by Sue's passion and friendly approach. Within a few pages
you'll be champing at the bit to try out Sue's simple but
innovative ideas a and all those ideas of your own that the book
will no doubt effortlessly inspire.Dr Pooky Knightsmith, Director
of the Children, Young People and Schools Programme, Charlie Waller
Memorial Trust, Vice Chair, Children and Young Peopleas Mental
Health Coalition.
aSue Cowley's international bestseller, Getting the Buggers to
Behave, has become a go-to manual for new and practicing teachers
alike. Similarly, The Artful Educator is jam-packed with ideas,
approaches and practical methods for activities in your classroom.
It's also written in a simple, accessible form so that readers can
dip in easily for ideas. A must-read for artful educators
everywhere.Aliss Langridge in The Teacher magazine
A timely response to the notion of teaching as content delivery for
examination performance. Sue Cowley's book delights in its
embracing of the complex, with all the engaging messiness that this
entails. Proudly modelling her belief in the power of the metaphor,
Cowley equates teaching with a range of creative arts, providing
practical pointers for putting the soul back into classroom
practice. Some will interpret the book as a riposte to the push to
make the profession more research-evidenced. I don't. For me,
Cowley's call for teacher creativity in the classroom sits
perfectly comfortably alongside the idea of education being
research-informed: practitioners guided by academic journals and
their artistic instincts.Duncan Partridge, Director of Education,
English-Speaking Union.
I whole-heartedly recommend this book to teachers. It comes at a
time when many in the profession have reported that the thrill and
buzz of teaching is being sucked from classrooms by the obligation
to just drill pupils for tests. Full of useful, practical ideas,
The Artful Educator understands that there is an important
distinction between pointlessly sugar-coating work with a
superficial afun' activity and actually inspiring intrigue and
engagement in a topic or skill. I feel sure that The Artful
Educator will help teachers to move pupils beyond simply tolerating
their learning and help them to actually love it instead.Isabella
Wallace, education consultant, author and presenter.
In our recent UKEdChat session on Creativity in Schools, I alluded
to creativity being a way of thinking and seeing the world. What I
was meaning is that so much of pedagogy appears to be stuck around
rigid curriculum programmes and creativity in schools appears to be
stifled by accountability, getting results and pressures on teacher
workload. Yet encouraging all members of a school community to be
creative goes beyond the process of doing arty stuff, dance or
singing a it's a way of thinking, doing, collaborating and feeling
alive a it's a way of humanity. For some in education, it is
difficult to break free from the curriculum and school
straight-jackets, but I would agree with Sue Cowley that teachers
are intrinsically creative by their very nature. You only have to
witness how creative the profession is when new initiatives come
from policymakers, or when an aspect of the teaching and learning
process isn't working and a teacher adapts the lesson immediately
to keep students engaged. Teachers are endlessly creative in the
face of many different challenges. In her new book, aThe Artful
Educator a creative, imaginative and innovative approaches to
teachinga, Sue Cowley explores an artful philosophy, the antithesis
to standardisation. The results providing a powerful force for
building students self-confidence and promoting an enjoyment of
learning. An 'artful attitude' to education offers different ways
to learning, planning and creativity, with the book offering ideas
for early years, primary, or secondary teachers to become: actors;
playwrights; film directors; storytellers; sculptors; authors, or
even; chefs. Yes, no matter what curriculum speciality you teach
within, there is always the opportunity to be creative with the
scheme of work you have to make your subject come alive and spark
the senses of your students. Sue offers a great range of ideas,
activities and inspiration that will stimulate your artful
thinking, making your teaching spark into life, and bringing out
the best in your students offering creative ways of learning that
they will fondly rememberClick here to read the review on
UKEdChat.UKEdChat
Sue Cowley has written a book for all those teachers who feel the
job is becoming a chore, devoid of freedom or enjoyment. In The
Artful Educator, she lays out what it means to be a creative
teacher: one that inspires students through their actions, one that
takes risks, involves children in their own learning and isn't
afraid to divert from the lesson plan. If you want to be a teacher
like this, you should read this book. Sue Cowley flies in the face
of current establishment thinking on education. Full of ideas, this
book is a licence to take risks, try out new and exciting ways to
capture your students' imaginations, and above all engage them in a
love of learning. Packed with ideas, The Artful Educator is a book
about education that will inspire young people to want to learn.
Written in Sue Cowley's engaging and straightforward style, it
shows how teaching is still a job that can be exciting, challenging
and, above all, fun. Tim Taylor, teacher, author of A Beginneras
Guide to Mantle of the Expert.
Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter and teacher trainer, and the
author of more than 25 books on education. In aThe Artful Educator:
Imaginative, Innovative and Creative Approaches to Teachinga she
draws upon her years of experience and expertise to explain and
demonstrate how classroom teachers can become artists, sculptors,
actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and
directors, no matter which subject or age group they happen to be
teaching. The artful educator paints the air with ideas and weaves
magic with words. They aren't afraid of a little risk, or of
planning and delivering lessons a little differently. Learn how to
be more creative, experimental, playful and imaginative in the
methods you use to manage your classroom, and in the myriad ways in
which you help your students to learn. aThe Artful Educatora
reveals what an artful attitude to education looks like, with
plenty of practical, real-life ideas for artful teaching and
learning. Offering inspiring examples of how colleagues in a range
of settings, from early years to secondary and further education,
are already using artful approaches in their classrooms, aThe
Artful Educatora shows how to engage with an artful side,
reinvigorate an approach to teaching and inspire both teachers and
their students with the pure joy of learning. Getting artful can
involve borrowing techniques from the arts to use in teaching,
getting learners hands-on with creating artworks themselves and
also engaging learners with great existing works of art,
cultivating the cultural capital that comes from this in the
process. Critique: Thoroughly areader friendly' in organization and
presentation, packed from cover to cover with practical suggestions
specifically designed to inspire classroom teachers to take
creative risks with students of all ages, aThe Artful Educatora is
ideal instructional resource for trainees, NQTs and experienced
teachers alike. Simply stated, aThe Artful Educatora is very highly
recommended for school district, college, and university library
Teacher Education collections as well as the personal reading lists
of student teachers and non-specialist general readers with an
interest in the subject.MBR Bookwatch: June 2017
The book is split into two parts- the first focusing on the theory
behind artful attitudes and the second on how to develop skills on
how to become an artful educator. Part one a artful attitudes
discusses what is meant by the term creative and part two is split
into thirteen different chapters on different ways to achieve being
creative and artful. I work in the Early Years and felt that I
already had a good knowledge of the first section of this book as
part of my role is to encourage children's creativity and
confidence. The book discusses the importance of creativity and how
it impacts children's life and learning. I would recommend this
book as I found Part Two helpful in developing my practice and
boosting my creativity in teaching and learning. I enjoyed the
different chapters that focus on the variety of ways creativity can
be taught: for example the chef- though food; or the film director
which focuses on incorporating creativity with computing skills. At
the end of each chapter there are recommendations of activities for
Key stages 1 and 2 and beyond, which are simple and cross
curricular. The last chapter in this book is called ten tiny steps
and I have already begun using this as a starting point to develop
my skills having implemented them slowly into the running of my
Reception class. Jane Clarke, Head of EY
The Artful Educator is aimed at teachers. This is a license to
break the rules. It should come with a license certificate to cut
out. As she says in the intro, a book for aexplorers and rebels' it
helps educators to teach with achaos inside them' I would
completely champion that. This is for passionate and informed,
decisive teachers. It's a step by step guide to approaching
learning techniques as an art form and to encourage the students to
see it that way, so demonstrating what an artful attitude can bring
to life.Click here to read the full review.Lisa Lillywhite, The
Smart Happy Project
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