Doreen Gehry Nelson - Cultivating Curiosity

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4 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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8 SECTION ONE: Creative Thinking by Design CHAPTER 1: NOT ARTS AND CRAFTS CHAPTER 2: SHAPING THE METHODOLOGY THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE AND NON-SPECIFIC TRANSFER OF LEARNING JARED'S STORY THE GENESIS OF THE STUDENT-BUILT CITY PARALLEL WORLDS LESSONS ALONG THE WAY THE SMITHSONIAN CHAPTER 3: THE CITY THE VERSATILITY OF THE CITY IN THE CLASSROOM IN THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM CHAPTER 4: THE METHODOLOGY AN ON-RAMP TO CREATIVE THINKING TAPPING INTO TEACHERS' INNATE CREATIVITY THE 6½ STEPS OF BACKWARDS THINKING™ KICK-STARTING THE MAKING OF AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM 3D RED TRIANGLES: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR MEMORY RETENTION CURRICULUM INTEGRATION CHARTS LONG-RANGE PLANNING BOARDS ESSENTIALS OF THE DOREEN NELSON METHOD OF DESIGN-BASED LEARNING CHAPTER 5: OWNING AND REUSING INFORMATION APPLE COMPUTER AND THE VIVARIUM PROJECT EXPANDING THE VOCABULARY FOR INVENTION THE HEART OF THE MATTER: THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE, ISRAEL CHAPTER 6: IN A NUTSHELLTHE DOREEN NELSON METHOD OF DESIGN-BASED LEARNING IS NOT ABOUT … THE DOREEN NELSON METHOD OF DESIGN-BASED LEARNING HAS RIGOR. IT IS NOT ABOUT …

9 SECTION TWO: Goodbye to Formulaic Teaching CHAPTER 7: “I'M NOT CREATIVE” CHAPTER 8: A RETURN TO THE SANDBOX CHAPTER 9: BREAKING OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE CHAPTER 10: IT TAKES COURAGE CHAPTER 11: WHEN ADMINISTRATORS GET IT CHAPTER 12: TRY A LITTLE TRICKERY (IT WORKS) CHAPTER 13: “BUT I ALREADY DO THIS” CHAPTER 14: A LEARNING COMMUNITY OF TEACHERS (COHORT GROUPS … FOOD MATTERS) CHAPTER 15: THE IMPORTANCE OF “WHY” CHAPTER 16: TRUST

10 SECTION THREE: Developing a Design-Based Learning Classroom CHAPTER 17: ORGANIC CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE ROLE-PLAYING MOVING THE FURNITURE CLASSROOM-IN-A-BAG A STUDENT-CENTERED CLASSROOM CHAPTER 18: MAKING CURRICULUM PHYSICALLONG-RANGE PLANNING BOARDS IN DEPTH THE EVOLUTION OF THE PLANNING PROCESS ACTIVATING A YEARLONG, STORY-DRIVEN CURRICULUM CHAPTER 19: THE HISTORY WALL THE HISTORY WALL IN THE CLASSROOM

11 IN CLOSING

12 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

13 INDEX

14 END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

1 COVER

2 TITLE PAGE

3 COPYRIGHT

4 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

5 FOREWORD

6 FOREWORD

7 INTRODUCTION

8 TABLE OF CONTENTS

9 BEGIN READING

10 IN CLOSING

11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

12 INDEX

13 END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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Curiosity is the most important word in education today. Teachers the world over long for ways to cultivate this elusive yet essential path to engagement and authentic learning. After a dreadful year of heroic efforts to engage students in remote learning, Cultivating Curiosity offers a much-needed blueprint for the journey back to face-to-face, hands-on, problem-based teaching and learning. Over a brilliant, pathbreaking career, Doreen Nelson has developed and refined an innovative methodology that nourishes curiosity, stimulates creativity, and scaffolds critical thinking. This is the first important education book of the after-pandemic era that every teacher, every parent, every policy maker and concerned citizen alike should read with gusto and to much profit.

—Marcelo Orozco, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston

In the end, Design-Based Learning is all about creating a vehicle for students to connect abstract academic concepts to concrete ideas, and to imagine creative solutions to challenges that they confront along the way. It provides a context for students to “perform” their thinking and discoveries. Ideas that they learn in one application may well turn out to serve another field or situation equally well. Hence the learning becomes integrated in an important way and, as opposed to a building of requirements, can serve as a frame of curricular design.