The Creative Classroom: 50 Key Techniques for Imaginative Teaching and Learning

by Sue Cowley

In 'The Creative Classroom', best selling education author Sue Cowley offers you 50 key techniques to boost and develop creative teaching and learning. For each of the 50 techniques, Sue offers a series of practical tips, ideas and activities for you to use in your primary classroom or early years setting. She also gives a series of thinking points for you to consider, to help you reflect on the approaches you use, and why you use them. As with all Sue's books, this guide is written in her much-loved practical, honest and realistic style. The ideas Sue gives here are ones you can put into practice straight away, to encourage an atmosphere where imagination and experimentation are valued and encouraged. The techniques in this book will help you achieve a happy classroom, in which your children feel free to express their ideas, build their imaginative thinking and develop their skills within different artistic disciplines.If you find this book useful, you might also enjoy 'The Calm 50 Key Techniques for Better Behaviour'.The first edition of this book (in print version only) was originally published by Scholastic as 'You Can Have a Creative Classroom', but has now gone out of print. This ebook is an updated second edition of the original text.

121 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2013

About the author

Sue Cowley is an experienced teacher, writer and presenter, whose specialism is in the area of behaviour management. After qualifying as a primary school teacher, she taught in a number of different secondary schools in London and Bristol. Sue has also taught overseas, at an international school in Portugal. She still works on a voluntary basis with children in local schools, to ensure that she keeps up to date with life 'at the chalkface'. Sue was recently called as an Expert Witness on behaviour, to appear in front of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education.

Sue is the best selling author of twenty books for teachers and parents, including Getting the Buggers to Behave, Teaching Skills for Dummies and How to Survive your First Year in Teaching. Her books have been translated into many different languages, including Slovene, Spanish and Polish. Sue has been a regular contributor to the TES and for Scholastic Magazines. She has written articles for a range of other teacher publications, and also for parenting magazines. She has also produced materials about behaviour management for the Open University / BBC. Sue has recently created a series of Positive Behaviour Management DVDs, in conjunction with educational company Creative Education.

A key part of Sue’s work is in providing training in positive behaviour management for schools and colleges around the UK and in Europe. She has given presentations for the National Union of Teachers and the General Teaching Council, for FastTrack and Advanced Skills’ teachers, to students at Cambridge, Bedford and Southampton Universities, to staff at the renowned Wellington College, and also to a number of deputy and head teacher conferences. Sue has also travelled to Europe to give training for teachers working for Service Children's Education, to teachers at international schools in Switzerland, and to teachers and trainee teachers in Slovenia. She combines her writing, training and presenting work with the wonderful job of being a parent.

Sue’s primary aim through her work is to give practical, realistic and honest advice to teachers and parents. Her books offer a combination of tips, ideas and strategies, written in an easily accessible and amusing way. Through the training courses that she runs, Sue puts across her ideas about teaching and behaviour management in a fun and engaging format.