Books by Kurt Wootton
ENGAGE: Creative strategies for teaching and learning
In Engage Wootton and Landay provide educators with a powerful guide for creating classroom cultures that inspire and engage students. Drawing from a wealth of practical activities and strategies, this book offers over one hundred actionable techniques suitable for learners of all ages, ranging from pre-school children to adults.
Structured around "The Performance Cycle," a dynamic framework for teaching and learning, Engage provides a roadmap to transform traditional classrooms into vibrant and interactive learning environments. Engage empowers educators to create transformative experiences for their students, reimagining education as an exciting and collaborative journey of discovery.
A reason to read: Linking literacy and the arts
A Reason to Read is the culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, an ambitious and wide-ranging collaborative that aims to promote literacy through rich and sustained instruction in the arts.
At the heart of the book is the “Performance Cycle,” a flexible framework for curriculum and lesson planning that can be adapted to all content areas and age groups. Each of the book’s main chapters delineates and explores a particular component of the cycle.
A practical, readable, and inspiring book, A Reason to Read will be of immeasurable help to school teachers, education leaders, and all who have a stake in promoting literacy and the arts in today’s schools.
