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Touchstone Texts: Fertile Ground for Creativity
Author(s) -
Sturgell Irma
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.61.5.5
Subject(s) - creativity , worry , psychology , mathematics education , curriculum , pedagogy , common ground , exploratory research , social psychology , sociology , social science , anxiety , psychiatry
When state and local standards drive instruction, teachers often worry about compromising their creativity for a prescriptive curriculum with predictable outcomes. It is possible for creative teaching to flourish by using touchstone texts, or mentor texts, that engage both teacher and student in exploratory yet purposeful learning.