Teaching family wrote (compiled) the book
A teaching family in central New York has created an anthology of innovative classroom ideas.
After years of swapping classroom strategies in conversations around the dinner table, three family members decided to put it all down on paper, after collecting ideas from many teaching sources. Teacher to Teacher: How to Find, Define & Refine Your Unique Style of Creative Teaching was compiled by Karol Gibson of the West Genesee District Teachers Association; her daughter-in-law, Jodee Szakacs of the Oneida TA; and her sister, Kathy Kobliski, a former high school biology teacher.
“Creativity is absolutely everywhere,” said Kobliski. “A creative chem lesson can be created into a history or English lesson. The book is a place to look for creativity.”
The anthology offers ideas and lessons from 33 educators from the U.S. , Russia and Sweden . One was French teacher Barbara Gordon of the United Liverpool Faculty Association, who was the 2002 New York State Teacher of the Year.
In one lesson by Illinois health teacher Thomas Loew, teachers use a hollow stick filled with small pebbles to demonstrate the addictive nature of alcohol and drugs. One end of the stick is said to represent experimentation, the other addiction. When students lift the experimenting side of the stick the interior stones rattle downward into the addiction side, graphically illustrating how experimentation can lead to addiction.
Teacher to Teacher: How to Find, Define & Refine Your Unique Style of Creative Teaching, published by TeachingPoint, can be purchased through www.teaching-point.net.
— Brendan Tompkins