Creative Teaching, 5 Summary and Analysis

Workbook

Sylvia is not a proponent of a workbook or lesson plan. She would rather take the risk of drawing a blank than be limited and stifled by what is written on a page. The joy of teaching is bringing a concept unfettered to the children, not robotically checking off points listed in workbook which only serves as an interfering middleman between student and teacher. Adhering to a daily lesson plan is not possible in the organic teaching process.

Dancing

Most of the expressive dance interpretations come from the children. Sylvia's choice of music is classical which the children seem to respond to most enthusiastically.

The Unlived Life

The creative drive in the classroom becomes that of the student and the teacher, almost a by-stander, flows along in that stream instead of against it. Organic teaching helps establish the...