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Applied Weaving: Mapping Creativity Into Every Strand Of A Curriculum, Jonathan P. Garra
Applied Weaving: Mapping Creativity Into Every Strand Of A Curriculum, Jonathan P. Garra
Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects
The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of adding creativity skills into curriculum mapping documents at the elementary and middle school level, with the goal of gaining some clarity regarding the intrinsic value and ubiquity of teaching for creativity. The language for the maps was taken from Weaving Creativity Into Every Strand of Your Curriculum (Burnett & Figliotti, 2015). The maps were developed after observations of and meetings with classroom teachers in order to assure their accuracy and authenticity. Because the intended purpose of a curriculum map is to provide a sweeping view of targeted content and …