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The Creative Classroom Project was a collaboration between Project Zero and Disney Worldwide Outreach to produce materials that help teachers explore and understand:
In the development of the materials, we drew on the expertise and experience of past American Teacher Award (ATA) Honorees to better understand their teaching practices and their own professional development as creative and innovative professionals. The Creative Classroom materials are not focused on the development of students' creativity per se, but on the development of environments in which students' and teachers' creativity, understanding, and thinking can flourish. Similarly, the focus is not on the fun and novelty of individual lessons but on nurturing a deep engagement in the learning process that requires students to invest and extend themselves. In the project, we take the stance that creative teaching must build on a foundation of solid pedagogy. However, creative teaching is not merely a higher plateau of practice. Creative teaching requires a fundamental move out of a safe zone for the teacher. Therefore, creative teaching is not necessarily the next logical step beyond good teaching practices. We see creative teaching as more generative and responsive teaching rather than just more effective teaching. In the current climate of high-stakes testing and mandated curriculum, creative and innovating teaching is perhaps more important than ever as it keeps classrooms energetic places of learning.The Creative Classroom Videotapes and Guides are frequently used in pre-service teacher training, graduate schools, and onsite professional development. These materials provide rich examples of what creative and innovative teaching can look like across subjects, grade, and school settings. These materials were distributed by Disney Worldwide Outreach and are in the public domain, with permission to copy and use the materials with appropriate attribution fully granted. Please contact Disney Worldwide Outreach directly at learning@disneyhand.com or via their website http://disney.go.com/disneyhand/learning to inquire about these materials or to share with them how you have used them. More about the Series
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Volume One of the series, Creativity in the Classroom, explores the topic of creative classrooms and presents three important dimensions of the creative classroom. These include approaching content creatively, using creative teaching and learning practices, and cultivating student creativity.
Volume Two, The Power of the Creative Classroom, focuses on an examination of what students get out of being in creative classrooms. This volume looks at student learning in the video and provides examples of student work in the guide for exploration.
Volume Three, Teaching in the Creative Classroom, unpacks and demystifies the process of creative teaching. This volume examines how teachers plan instruction and organize curriculum that bring out both their own creativity and that of their students.
Inside the Creative Classroom differs from the three previous volumes in that it presents five case studies of teachers' creativity. Each teacher is highlighted on video and then a CD-ROM provides unit plans, examples of students' work, resources, assessment information, and reflections by the teachers themselves.