Includes bibliographical references.

Creativity and creative teaching defined -- Work and play, play and work: the genesis of creativity -- Creative teaching and learning: theory and practice -- Dimensions of distraction and invention -- Engines for creative teaching -- Attention awakened: the power of observation and participation -- Ideas aroused: formulating definitions and building analogies -- Investigations stimulated: from puzzlement to perplexity, grasping the mysterious -- Viewpoints explored: different perspectives and conflicting interpretations -- Judgments provoked: apathy to empathy, assessment to commitment, and evaluation to moral choice -- Rules and rationale for creativity in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Throughout the book, a rationale is proposed that a truly great teacher must learn how to balance the many components of teaching to fit both subject and audience. Success depends upon the knowledge, skill, and performance of the one playing teacher in reaching those in student roles.

"Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation and destroy experimentation. Reclaim teacher control of curriculum design and instructional methods across all fields by boldly going 'outside', even off the walls, where teachers have lived happier lives before the invention of rubrics and rules. Become the truly creative teacher to which you have aspired! Highlights of the book: explores and expands opportunities for engaging student conversation and ideas; adds variety and depth to your teaching methods; hone questioning and critical thinking skills; move from lower to higher levels; and reinvent instruction at home, work, or in classrooms as places of imagination and enjoyment."--Publisher's description