Of all the so-called 21st-century skills, perhaps none is revered in both the education and business worlds as much as creativity. In the past year alone, creativity topped lists of the most valued ...

When a student fails, it’s the teacher’s fault. When a child misbehaves – it’s the teacher’s fault. And when the economy fails, that too is considered to be the teacher’s fault. Is my latter statement ...

I'm not someone who sends several emails a day to people saying there's this Internet video you should watch, so I mean it when I say there's this Internet video you should watch (embedded below). The ...

Creativity is not a "you have it" or "you don't" kind of thing. It isn't a personality trait. It's not a "one size fits all" habit of mind. It's not, simply, a set of skills to test for or a roster of ...

For the last 30 years or so the rise of creative writing programmes in universities has been met with seemingly unending howls of derision from all quarters. Hanif Kureishi, novelist, screenwriter – ...

Princeton faculty have found a number of innovative ways to teach remotely, from mailing archival materials to virtually choreographing dances. But how can you teach science when the labs themselves ...

Freese Elementary first graders starting to paint a giant puppet with teaching artist Felix Diaz. University of California eScholarship Repository, CC BY Bringing professional actors and dancers into ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...