ABSTRACT
Creative teaching is a highly complex endeavor that requiring a broad array of skills and dispositions. Contextual pressures on educators largely prescribe the most effective pedagogical work processes. The immediate classroom context demands exceptional planning and managerial skills, facilitative leadership, flexibility, pattern perception, and intuitive capacities. The larger, societal context often pressures teachers to confine their practice to insular, one-sided perspectives on teaching and learning. Non-reflective compliance with dogmatic philosophies or ideologies and insular practices erodes the professional decision making that underpins instructional creativity. The most creative teachers preserve their professionalism by finding artful ways to keep their students creative, even in confining conditions. In so doing, they turn their own careers into long-term, creative experimental journeys.
