Teacher Book
Title:
Michelangelo in the 21st Century
About the book in short:
Strategy, practical tools, inspiration & learning units to raise ingenious creative thinking students.
An educators' treasure trove for promoting students' 21st century study skills toward success: creative problem solving, collaboration, critical and creative thinking.
More about the book:
What if we educated toward creativity like Michelangelo’s? Children today are like diamonds – full of ideas, interesting questions, and astonishing insights. Michelangelo was like that. Everything was against him. Sculpture wasn’t esteemed as a professional guild that brings status and fortune. What he had was the passion to sculpt, perseverance, and love for learning. The print revolution enabled him to learn from books.
Today we are at the artificial intelligence revolution. It enables children to order stories, paintings, and homework answers. Why do we need creative thinking for children, then? Because, during the process of enrichment and research, like the one Michelangelo did toward every new artwork, the inner world of the child reveals itself. It was self-expression that gave Michelangelo’s sculptures great impact. And that is something the computer cannot replace.
This book helps teachers leverage their humane personality, to complement AI assisted creative learning toward better results. It provides strategized practices, from which educators can choose those best suited for their students, to ignite creative skillful learning for K12. It equips teachers with a treasure trove of tips to provide students with 21st century study skills toward success: creative problem solving, collaborative PBL, and much more.
Promoting individual potential, this book facilitates multicultural education, giving equal learning opportunities for all. By better understanding students' bright minds, which sometimes lead to disrupting behaviors, this book is your anchor for caring classroom management. Discover how to give social-emotional learning tips and 21st century skills guidelines that will serve as a balancing anchor accompanying students on their journey to success. This visionary approach serves as a lighthouse, directing toward hope and wellbeing. The book will help you support twice-exceptional and neurodiversity students' inclusion, directing them to contribute based on their creative brightness.
This book provides a holistic solution to 21st century teachers’ challenges. No more trial and error. Creativity education leader, Michelle Korenfeld, offers effective up-to-date research and lifelong-creative-education-practice based tools to upgrade achievements, bringing the smile back to teachers, children, youth, parents and communities.
From understanding classroom cues to brain-research based learning, directing enquiry to leading conversations, this book builds teachers' professionality. Guidelines and tools are provided for identifying students' diverse needs and potentials, teaching ethics, and growing leaders. The world fact/opinion trivia game and learning units ignite curiosity toward sustainability and innovation. The 5 E's strategy focuses and directs: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate, Express.
The author:
Michelle Korenfeld – author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean's excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books - writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers believing in children and youth's strengths.
Reviews and Recommendations:
"Michelle Korenfeld teaches us like a wondrous waterfall. Amazing ideas flow from her like telling children to tap a spot high on their foreheads to get them ready to think. Or to take kids outside to refresh their souls with a writing project. The children are to observe ants, spider webs, leaves or anything that catches their eye. Then give them time to observe, think, write, and reflect.
Michelle calls this mind wandering. She tells how Einstein saw in pictures as he took the time to observe light, use his imagination, think, write, and develop his theory of relativity.
Her favorite mind wanderer is Michelangelo. Throughout this book she describes how he took the time to study the human body, to feel, design, and create the beautiful David, the Pieta, and God reaching for Adam in the Sistine Chapel and so much more.
I will use this book to influence my grandchildren. I will text ideas from this book to enrich their creativity and lives.
Michelle believes your children have a depth of creativity too. Whether you’re a parent or a teacher, you need this book to unlock the treasures within your children.
Get this masterpiece today."
Jean Tracy Mss
Author, speaker and counselor at KidsDiscuss.com
“What I appreciate most is the focus on social-emotional learning and the emphasis on turning educators into mentors. It's more than just a guide; it's a call to action to foster a learning environment where students thrive through hands-on activities and collaborative learning. Michelle, with her rich background in creativity education, makes a compelling case for a more holistic and joyful approach to teaching.”
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"A breath of fresh air for teachers navigating the challenges of 21st-century education.
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The book masterfully outlines how to blend AI with our innate human qualities to elevate creative learning."
Efraim Lerner - Education Consultant Unlocking Human Potential in Education's AI Era
"I an enjoying reading. The contents dovetail quite well as one concept is scaffolded to another rather than kept in isolation. For example, the nexus between SEL & Creativity. I like the diamond illustration to help engage students with the 5Es and their interconnections. The illustrations are endearing and thought provoking. I can't wait to finish it!"
Achievement Heights Academy and Studio, Dr. N'Quavah R. Velazquez - Headmaster, CEO, President and Founder.
“I truly enjoy reading this book in the author’s own voice. It’s like having a personal conversation with her in person about a truly important topic and Agee clear vision of making that vision real.”
Bob Heath, Veteran, Principal Research Fellow, Author
"A compelling and practical look at how to educate students in the age of technology. An interesting deep dive on how education can be so much more than just mere memorization. A practical guide for making topics engaging and geared towards skill building. Truly a joy to read and I look forward to testing out the various ideas with students."
Tvrtko Noa Pater
Chief Executive Officer at ORNIUS Training & Consultancy
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