Acclaimed Author and Poet Pat Mora Pens New Book for Educators
ZING! SEVEN CREATIVE PRACTICES FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS is designed to inspire teachers to explore their own and their students creative talents!
Pat Mora, an award-winning poet and author and a frequent guest speaker in schools, colleges, and libraries, has lead
popular workshops on literacy and teacher creativity. Her workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, provided the foundation for this book as a response to numerous requests from teachers who were driven by the need to express themselves creatively and to nurture the creativity of their students.
Each practice for nurturing personal creativity has a corollary practice for nurturing student creativity. Throughout the book, Mora reaffirms her conviction that creative teachers are more effective teachers and emphasizes that every child's creative self must be valued—regardless of a child's cultural and linguistic background.
Written in the form of letters to teachers, Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students is a moving and inspirational volume that serves as a reminder to teachers that their work is important and that they are, indeed, community leaders.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Welcome! Bienvenido!
- Value Your Creative Self
Value Each Student's Creative Talents
2. Enjoy Quiet
Create Quiet Spaces for Students
3. Gather Your Materials
Motivate Students to Gather Their Materials
4. Begin Your Project
Assist Students to Begin Their Projects
5. Revise
Support Students With Revision
6. Share Your Creations
Create Sharing Opportunities for Students
7. Steadily Persist in Your Creative Work
Motivate Students to Persevere
PAT MORA is an award-winning author of poetry, nonfiction, and children's books. She promotes connecting communities through literature and literacy. A native of El Paso, she speaks often at conferences, universities, and schools about creative writing, leadership, diversity, heritage and multicultural education.
The Garrey Carruthers Chair in Honors, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, fall, 1999, Pat has been a judge and recipient of the Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an advisor and recipient of the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowships. Among her other awards are the Ohioana Award, the Pellicer-Frost '99 Bi-national Poetry Award, four Southwest Book Awards and the Premio Aztlán Literature Award.
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