From the Land of Enchantment: Creative Teaching with Fairy Tales (Gifted Treasury) - Softcover

Flack, Jerry D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563085402 ISBN 13: 9781563085406

Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press(NH), 1997

Synopsis

Here are a wealth of ideas, resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, techniques, and problem- and product-based learning. Flack uses fairy tales to provide a common theme to a variety of effective teaching strategies and engaging activities, such as making books, writing and editing newspapers, and creating a classroom museum. Drawing on Bloom's Taxonomy and the work of such experts as Gardner, Maslow, and Kohlberg, he places special emphases on learning process, literacy, thinking skills, integrated learning, diversity, and academic excellence.

About this title

About the Author:

JERRY D. FLACK is Professor of Gifted Child Education and a President's Teaching Scholar at the School of Education, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. A former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and the Board of Governors for The Association for the Gifted (TAG) of the Council for Exceptional Children, he has written numerous books and professional articles about curriculum for gifted students

Synopsis:

Using fairy tales, this text offers ideas, curriculum, resources and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and problem- and product-based learning. These strategies can be used in a variety of settings, from schools to colleges.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press(NH)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1563085402
• ISBN 13: 9781563085406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Illustrator: Graeber Gay