2. It Takes Creativity and Windows
Becoming a Teacher Who Writes - Let Teaching be your Writing Muse - Nancy S. Gorrell
Nancy S. Gorrell [+]
English teacher and poet
Nancy S. Gorrell is an award-winning English teacher, author, and poet. Her previously published book (with Erin Colfax) in this series is Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Scientific Literacy ad Poetic Response (Equinox, 2012). She is currently Director of the SSBJCC Holocaust Memorial and Education Center Survivor Registry, Bridgewater, NJ.
Description
Chapter 2 presents the book’s central metaphor – windows – through the author’s childhood story of a classroom window and a 4th grade teacher who opened her eyes and transformed her. Windows in this chapter includes the notions of openness and receptivity, two attitudes fundamental to creativity and creative teaching. The author introduces the concepts of teaching the spontaneous lesson and going outside to write. The remainder of Chapter 2 defines and explores the terminology, history, and scholarship of creativity, creative teaching, and creative writing. Chapter 2 concludes with Interdisciplinary Applications for Teachers and Students and a “Gift of Windows” writing prompt.