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Art: High School Supplement SSD Grade 7-Grade 12Adventist teachers' handbooks for integrating faith and values. These are practical guides with a variety of approaches to teaching key values, illustrations and examples. Separate booklets are available for each subject, including: Art, Business, Computer,... -
Creativity as a Cherished Social Value Grade 8-TertiaryThe study reported here, with action-research characteristics, had the objective of recording the opinion of a sample of students from teacher training institutions in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, in 2003. The interest in the project is focused... -
Critical Thinking and Inquiry in Adventist Education Kindergarten-Grade 12England explains how teaching based on standards-based curriculums and 21st century skills can help achieve a variety of goals in the classroom. The article then describes methods for helping students become independent thinkers, including three powerful frameworks:... -
Developing Creativity in Children Growing Up in a Media Saturated Environment Preschool-Grade 4Enjoy the many handouts from this 2018 NAD convention breakout session, in which participants learned "how media affects kids and how to be proactive in helping families to protect against the hazards of media culture...techniques to help children get... -
Enhancing Creativity Through Music, Rhythm, and Sound Kindergarten-Grade 8Interested in altering your thinking and mood with music? Try the following exercises: drawing to music, writing with music, and thinking through music. -
Enlarging the Vision - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts Kindergarten-LifelongWhat is being done in schools and colleges to train the eyes and ears of the youth to see and hear and appreciate the visual and auditory world? College students today have little appreciation, understanding or knowledge of the arts. The arts and other human... -
Getting Students to Think - Using Questions Effectively Kindergarten-Grade 12How can educators help students learn to think? Larry Burton and Donna Habenicht address effective ways of using questions to enhance the thinking capabilities of students. The authors state that students need guidance toward using higher level thinking skills.... -
In the Image of God - The Creative Act in Teaching and Learning Tertiary-LifelongSpring hypotheses that "successful teaching consists of establishing a dynamic relationship between the student and the subject matter." In the paper he goes on to discuss what the nature of the "dynamic relationship" is and how the teacher... -
JAE Editorial: In Search of Solutions Tertiary-LifelongIn this editorial in the JAE special higher education issue, Dr. Gordon Madgwick reflects, after a three-year sabbatical in the corporate world, on the importance of new ideas, new ways of doing things, and the reward and respect given to creative individuals.... -
JAE Editorial: The Gift of Creativity Kindergarten-Grade 12The focus of this issue of the Journal is to present a strong argument in favor of preserving the arts as: (1) a vital and necessary component of each school’s program of instruction, (2) essential for the wholistic development of each student, and (3)... -
NINA - The Case of a Creatively Gifted Student Grade 5-Grade 8"Nina, a sixth-grade public school student who served as the focus of this case study, is eleven years old, Caucasian, and from a lower middle-class background. She is also a highly able and creatively gifted child." Nina was interviewed as... -
Outdoor Education With a Design Kindergarten-Grade 8Outdoor education should not only encourage learning, but also enable students to balance sensitivity to human need with respect for and preservation of the rest of creation. The major benefits of outdoor education are that it brings reality to learning; allows... -
PET 10-01: Panorama of Educational Thoughts Preschool-Grade 12Download Vaughn Jennings' January 2010 newsletter for Adventist teachers in North America. This edition features links to resources fostering art appreciation, creativity, and the power to think and do in Christian education. -
PET 10-02: Panorama of Educational Thoughts Kindergarten-Grade 12Download Vaughn Jennings' February 2010 newsletter for Adventist teachers in North America. This edition further emphasizes harmonious development and creativity. -
Schooling and Creativity - A Study of a Mexican Sample Kindergarten-Grade 12Schooling may affect creativity. With this in mind, the Torrance Test for Measuring Creative Thinking was administered to a Mexican sample of 345 subjects, 181 schooled and 164 unschooled. As expected, older children (12 to 17 years old) who were not in school... -
Simulations – A Very Powerful Teaching Strategy Kindergarten-Grade 12Simulations are powerful tools you can use in the classroom. Students experience working collaboratively, role playing, sharing ideas, and creating exciting authentic situations. Students learn how to develop leadership responsibilities and use information... -
Strategies for Making Any Classroom Extraordinary Kindergarten-Grade 12While all children may not be gifted, in the strict sense of the word, gifted education may be good for all children. Taylor shares ten hallmarks of successful gifted education programs that can make any school extraordinary. Topics include: Curriculum Compacting;... -
Teaching Science in the Multigrade Classroom Kindergarten-Grade 12How a multigrade teacher developed a new science curriculum that incorporated her teaching methods for other classes. Topics were selected, objectives listed, and specific activities listed. How each unit was introduced and evaluated is discussed. From the... -
The Place of Play in Twenty-first Century Classrooms - Evidence and Approaches Preschool-Kindergarten"Do our current ways of teaching our young children actually foster the development of effective skills and dispositions for twenty-first century living? A number of authors, (Pink, 2005; Golinkoff & Sharp 2009), have commented that solutions to the... -
Towards a Biblical Understanding of Literary Creativity Tertiary-LifelongPaseggi surveys "the Bible looking for answers in relation to creativity and literature that can help us as teachers meditate on 'whatever things are true...noble...just...[and] pure' (Philippians 4:8)." This paper was presented at the 24th Institute... -
Up a Tree or in the Mud - How Nature-Based Free Play Contributes to the Wellbeing of Children Preschool-Grade 8Many children live very managed, structured and risk-free lives. Consequently, they are not necessarily developing "confidence and resilience that transfer to new situations." In contrast, time outdoors engaging in exploration and free play grows... -
Verbal Creativity and Academic Performance in University Students Tertiary-LifelongThis research sought to evaluate the influence of verbal creativity on academic performance in 184 high school students of the Universidad Adventista del Plata, Entre Ríos, Argentina. The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Torrance Test of Creative... -
Verbal Intelligence and Creativity in Adolescents Aged 16 to 18 years Grade 9-TertiaryThis study investigated the relationship between intelligence and verbal creativity, specifically in subjects between 16 and 18 years of age. It was especially interested in the way in which intelligence and each of its factors affect the different dimensions... -
Worth the Effort - Applying Brain Research in Kindergarten Kindergarten-Grade 2To alleviate first days of school stress, Julie Westlake provided her students with a positive learning environment that was free of threats and stress, allowed student choice, and created a physical environment that allowed her students to excel in arts and...