Education, Teaching Methods & Materials, Arts & Humanities
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Noyes Notes…on Transposition
A Transposition Method for Wind Musicians
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Transposition. What is it? How do you do it? Why and when does a musician need it? How do you get started learning it? In Noyes Notes…on Transposition, trumpeter, music educator, and technical writer Randal C. Noyes uses simple, concise language...
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Training the Young Actors of Theatre Ashbury
How Good do you Want to be? And What are you Going to do About it?
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When Gregory H. Simpson was hired to run the drama program at Ottawa private school Ashbury College, he brought with him a very simple premise: If you taught kids to think, there would be a revolution in education. That premise—plus a few years,...
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Teaching Through Stories
Jane and Jeremy Learn to Knit
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“Unhurried education, and teaching to the heart through stories, develop a lifelong love of a continually unfolding process of learning and loving the world.” Teaching through Stories: Jane and Jeremy Learn to Knit will encourage you to take...
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Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Oedipus Rex and Plato at the Crossroads
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Greek drama is as relevant today as ever—it is high energy and archetypal. Dramatic arts motivate and engage students kinaesthetically, visually, and linguistically, and Greek drama provides a rich framework for language arts and comparative...
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Mindfulness Based Art
The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors
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In Mindfulness-Based Art: The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors, art therapist Margaret Jones Callahan offers step-by-step instructions on bringing Mindfulness into the art studio, counselor’s office, or classroom. Here, you discover the...
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Using the Creative Arts for Transformational Learning
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“Weaving together theory, personal experience and a deep knowledge of the power of Art to transform individuals and communities, Mendel has written a comprehensive and accessible book that fills the meaning and how-to gap skirted by much of the...
