What are the pros and cons of creative movement in education?
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You mean, like why should we have it in our schools?\nBecause kids (and other people) have different learning styles;  because it connects those little dendrites and synapses in our brains to make us smarter; because different kids can "shine" in different areas; because it's expressive; and finally, because it burns some of that wild kid energy so they can settle down in class!
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pros:  Your kids are free to learn based on their own pace, and delve deeper into thier own interests.  \n\nCons:  Your kids learn from you, so if you have bad habits they will have them too.  Evaluate your self before you start...\n\nand create a good group of friends with kids aged 2-3 years younger and older than your kids.
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As a teacher, I advocate many alternate methods:  Odyssey of the Mind, science fairs, music recitals.  I like anything which brings out the creativity of the students.  Dry, dull tests are often intimidating.  Many are slanted toward (against) certain ethnic and/or financial status background students, although standardized testing is becoming fairer and more universal.  One of the problems is budget.  School personnel who create and/or choose curriculum are restricted by money and time.  As education is one of the most important aspects of our lives, we need to change our ways of looking at education.\n\nI hope to pique students' interests in inventing, creating, producing.  I like essays over tests.  I am willing to accept book reports over tests.
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There are good and bad points to both. I personally think home schooling is better for children until their decision making skills are matured. This would ensure that they would not be easily influences by other children who were not exposed to the same values that they were. Some other negative things about  going to school would be the child's safety in the schools, overcrowded schools, shortage of teachers and then the inadequate teachers just to name a few.\n\nBeing home schooled the parents have the option to teach them the topics that they choose (within the curriculum guidelines) The negative thing about home schooling would be lack of peer interaction, the chance to develop pubic speaking skills and exposure to more than one teacher.
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Hello there,\n\nPlease refer to following website..It will be helpful for you...\n\nHope that helps\n\nRegards\n\n\n\nhttp://creativity-n-experience.spaces.live.com/?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart&partqs=amonth%3d9%26ayear%3d2006
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While public policy is an undoubedly exciting field, the rewards you'll get and receive in special education are certainly among the most satisfying available.\n\nYou have an opportunity to positively affect countless children and adults with challenges far beyond the average person.  In the end, you have to follow your heart.  I suggest searching it carefully to see what it holds for this field.  The best of luck to you!
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Life is not only about spouting facts and doing paperwork. It is also about creativity (we wouldn't have anything without people being creative/inventive). Not only that, but Art provides additional support, emphasis, and reinforcement for certain essential skills used in core academics: observation, attention to detail, visual-perceptual skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, etc.\n\nIt is a very important part of education, and should be included in every school.
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Children love to be busy, and a teacher must always be flexible, creative and imaginative so that everyday activities are not monotonous. Children have short attention span. An exciting activity to the next minimize misbehavior. i tell you, it works! an example of how you should start is to have an informal conversation first, then mimic some songs, recite poems, play music where they can freely move with it, let them have something to manipulate, to cut, to paste; make them draw, paint,and write.  and most of all, let them play, indoor or outdoor will always be exciting for them. tell them stories too.  a teacher should tap all aspects that will develop the skills of children; you know, they have different learning styles.
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This excerpt is taken from "It Takes a Community - A Community Guide to the Sure Start Program"\n\nCurriculum\nThe curriculum is probably the single most important component of any educational program. Its primary goal is to provide educators with a framework for helping students become capable learners-that is, children who are skilled developmentally and are motivated to learn.\nSure Start has designated The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood (Dodge & Colker) as the curriculum of choice. The underlying reason for selecting this curriculum is that it has a proven track record with Head Start programs and military Child Development Programs (CDP): over 18,000 Head Start grantees have successfully used The Creative Curriculum.; it is also the curriculum of choice at most military child care centers. The curriculum focuses on providing children with learning experiences that promote their socio-emotional, physical and cognitive growth. Using Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories of cognition, Erik Erikson’s writings on socio-emotional development, and principles of physical development as its foundation, The Creative Curriculum presents staff with a structure for helping each child grow according to his or her own individual timetable The context for learning in The Creative Curriculum is an environment that supports clearly defined learning activities. The curriculum features 10 activity areas through which instruction is introduced:\nBlocks\nTable Toys\nMusic and Movement\nArt\nBooks\nSand and Water Play\nHouse Corner\nOutdoors\nComputers\nCooking\nIn the curriculum, activities are discussed in terms of their importance to children’s development, what learning objectives are appropriate for children, how the environment can be structured to promote these activities, strategies that can be used to enrich and extend learning, and ideas for coordinating with parents. The goal of the curriculum is to provide guidance for planning, without prescribing a series of set lessons.\nTeachers are thus encouraged to build content around the experiences and interests of the children in their program so that learning takes place in a context that is meaningful to individual children. The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood fosters creativity in both children and teaching staff. Being creative means thinking of new ideas, obtaining information by asking questions, learning through trial and error, and benefiting from mistakes. Children’s creativity is supported through an environment that encourages them to try out ideas and risk making errors. Teachers’ and Program Assistants’ creativity is supported by a curriculum framework that encourages them to be innovative and responsive to children. By focusing on both teaching staff and children, The Creative Curriculum provides a framework for development in an educational setting in which young children can thrive.\n\nTaken from http://www.dodea.edu/instruction/curriculum/ece/pubs/community/community-portrait.pdf (pages 10-11)\n\nTry looking at this website for a detailed look at the creative curriculum referred to in the above passage:\nhttp://www.teachingstrategies.com/pages/page.cfm?pageid=173
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Yes, because this is the way of learning.  If things are easy you will keep going until you run into a snag.  Help children move constructively through challenges and learn to solve their own conflicts and problems.
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My suggestion is that you create your own worksheets and with you creating your own, you will have your own answer sheet. I think teachers should be created and innovative when it come to creativity with students and in the classroom.
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I am a straight-A-student and for me it's great! If I forget about something, don't know how to do homework or so, teachers always try to help me and there are nearly no consequences of it. They just know I work hard and it's not because of laziness.\nThere are also some cons, though. Sometimes I've got enough of being the first one, HAVING to be the first one. When I say I haven't prepared something just because I don't care, my classmates can't believe in it. It's so strange for them... And, among all, I'm treated like an encyclopaedia. Most of people can't see that I'm a living person, not a machine.
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technology has great influece on the education system.\nchildren has access to knowledge...easier and faster... but this make students lazier...as in the case of plagiarism... it is undeniable that technology had make communication easier but it do increase the number of crime or more commonly known as cybercrime.....involving students and children\nbut i personally think that if technology is used in a good way....that is searching information, enchance communication...... in education then....it is good....
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No negatives.\n\nSomeday all kids will have to aplly for a job or college or whatever... \n\nfreedom of expresion on your on time... \n\nbut when it's time to get down to business (what ever that may be) put your best foot fwd and you'll never be dissapointed.\n\nTeach them what it takes to manage in the real world and then when they are out in it, they can do as they please.
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our education system is it is sucks and is not very effective.\nby changinng the paradigm we might become more effective.\neducators.\ntech ed is more hands on and practical. theory is nice but rarely effective in making a living.
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It reduces the wastes that would manifest in our environment.It also builds creativity for the person who practice it.
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Hey there - I am Jo and I am doing a Bachelor of Primary Education with a Special Needs minor in Western Australia.\n\nI get the feeling this is an essay question.  I guess it depends on what you are referring to as "the alternative".  We have already discussed with PowerPoint as the alternative, I see, however as an education student who subscribes to the theory of Authentic Learning, lets say that the alternative is situated experience.\n\nPiaget believed that we "learn by doing and by thinking about our experience" (Shor, 1992, 17).  Education, in this case, is not something that is done TO students, but rather done BY students.  Authentic learning and assessment are, in my opinion, the way to go.  \n\nGardener idetified 7 learning styles - seven intelligences in his Multiple Intelligence theory.  You would find teaching with a piece of chalk caters only to those with strength in visual and possibly auditory intelligence.  Students who are strong in kinaesthetic intelligence or musical intelligence, for example, are overlooked.  This means we need to diversify the learning experiences we provide our students, and offer them the autonomy to make choices about which experiences will best suit them.\n\nI think this is the best way to ensure each of our students has optimal chances at success.  Think outside the square.\n\nPS.  In this question, you could think about whether the it is the teacher or the student who should be holding the chalk.