Pedagogy in a New Tonality

Teacher Inquiries on Creative Tactics, Strategies, Graphics Organizers, and Visual Journals in the K-12 Classroom

Volume Editor:
This is a book for teachers, by teachers, from elementary school to university level classrooms. It is about the use of creative instructional strategies in K-12 class­room settings, and the transformations the teachers made in their journeys from being traditional practitioners to “becoming pedagogical” in their approaches to teaching and learning across the curriculum.
Over twenty teachers conducted research in their classrooms on the implementation of creative strategies, tactics, graphics organizers, and visual journals in teaching and learning. They have written their inquiries in a narrative style, informed by various forms of arts based educational research. Their research is approachable and usable by other teachers who are interested in becoming reflective-reflexive practitioners. Many of the strategies, tactics, and graphics organizers are described by Barrie Bennett in his widely used textbook, Beyond Monet: The Artful Science of Instructional Intelligence. However, through their journeys of becoming teacher-learner-researchers, many discovered numerous, creative variations of Bennett’s work as it was implemented in their classrooms.
While there are many professional books that provide ideas on collaborative learning and creative teaching approaches, there is very little published research on the efficacy of these concepts in the K-12 classroom. These inquiries provide practical insights into how inspired teachers can conduct research on improving their own practice as well as on greatly improving their students’ learning.

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The heart of teaching
A pedagogy of community in the classroom
Pages: 1–18
Linking student literacy
Building Community Through Cross-age Tutoring for Reading
Pages: 19–34
At the crossroads
A Teacher’s Journey in Understanding Classroom Conflict
Pages: 35–53
Mentoring myself
The process of becoming an instructionally intelligent intermediate educator and mentor of pre service teachers
Pages: 85–101
Writing is more than draft and good copy
The use of storyboarding and oral storytelling as pre-writing activities to enhance fluency and description in elementary students’ narrative writing
Pages: 185–202
Developing confidence and comprehension
The use of visual journals in a Grade Eight mathematics classroom
Pages: 219–226
The journey from student to teacher and back again
An Evolving Understanding of Curriculum Design
Pages: 255–266
Environmental sustainability and ecological systems
A curriculum project for grade 10 students at the North Vancouver Outdoor School
Pages: 267–273
The art and science of teaching mathematics
One teacher’s creative journey
Pages: 275–284
Stepping into systemic change
An autobiographical account of a teacher researcher-teacher leader-teacher learner
Pages: 299–319
References
Pages: 321–338
This book has widespread interest for teachers and administrators who seek to implement systemic changes in the ways that teachers teach, and children learn, in the 21st century.
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