Month: May 2016

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Random Ideas About Education

15 Ways To Help Kids Learn Anything

May 31, 2016

We all want our kids to do well at school. We also want our kids to be passionate and engaged in their learning. I’m sure there are times when you’d like to help your kids with their schoolwork, teach your kids something new, or tap into or ignite their passions. Do you know how? My […]Read More

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Does History Have To Be Boring?

May 31, 2016

By Dr. Theodore Christou In 2009, I began my academic career as an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. I was fortunate. Alan Sears, arguably Canada’s most renowned social studies educator adopted me as an academic son. One day, only a few months after my arrival in […]Read More

Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

The Not-So-Humble Pigeon

May 31, 2016

(This is a recent addition to our Eco-Story Project. If you want to engage your students’ sense of wonder at the awesomeness of the community of life in which they live then read more about the cross-curricular and cross-grade approach to teaching called Imaginative Ecological Education. Be sure to download the colouring page at the end!) Yeah, you […]Read More

Concept-Centric Teaching (Philosophic/Ironic engagement) Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Imaginative Historical Education & Inquiry (IHI): Activities & Insights

Aristotle And A Leather Jacket: An Example of Concept-Centered Teaching

May 26, 2016

The new BC Curriculum calls for the organization of learning around strong Concept Centres. Here’s an example of what that can look like in practice. By Dr. Tim Waddington S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is a genuinely engaging novel for young readers. For those of you somehow unfamiliar – spoiler alert – the novel follows two groups of teens in […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Random Ideas About Education

Do Schools Suppress Rather Than Encourage The Imagination?

May 24, 2016

By: Dr. Kieran Egan Dwelling on triumphs past, which doesn’t take long, I recalled a talk I had to give in Dublin some years ago on the creative imagination and its place in the arts and sciences. I started my talk by noting that having a creative imagination has been described as a consequence of […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

Tips For Imaginative Educators #12: Stimulate Wonder

May 20, 2016

Imaginative teaching is, in part, a practice in which curricular topics are brought into the spotlight. Imaginative educators aim to evoke emotional responses in students by helping them to see what is extraordinary about what they are learning. Just A Cup? Dr. Kieran Egan encourages his readers to consider how a paper coffee cup is far from ordinary. […]Read More

Learning In Depth (LiD)

Putting Principles of The Learning In Depth Program (LiD) Into

May 17, 2016

By: Yamanda Kaychouhi Boukmakh ([email protected]) This short independent, experimental study shows the immense power that the Learning in Depth program can have on student learning. I look first at how different LiD teachers introduce the program to their students. My investigation of students’ development as they learn and ask questions about their LiD topics provides evidence […]Read More

Art Projects Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE): Activities & Insights Walking Curriculum

The Walking Curriculum Colouring Page!

May 13, 2016

Here’s a fun little thing to do at home and think about when you’re taking part in the Walking Curriculum. See if you can spot some interesting critters in here as you colour the page and watch for them outside as you walk or sit alone. What shapes are common? Any patterns? How many acorns […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights

Emotion At The Helm

May 10, 2016

More brain science research proves the role of emotion in all thinking. “People think of emotion getting in the way of cognition, but it doesn’t. Emotion steers our thinking; it’s the rudder that directs our mind and organizes what we need to do.” (Source: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang quoted in Education Week‘s article Emotions Help Steer Students’ Learning, Studies Find […]Read More

Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE): Activities & Insights

Feeling, Activeness, & Place: An Eco-Imaginative Pedagogy

May 10, 2016

This is a short presentation that provides a rationale for Feeling, Activeness, and Place to serve as guiding ecological education principles. I describe why employing these principles for teaching all subjects (Imaginative Ecological Education) can re-align the means and ends of eco education. I do apologize for the film quality–and the bad jokes–but I think it is useful and adds to […]Read More

Month: May 2016

15 Ways To Help Kids Learn Anything

Does History Have To Be Boring?

The Not-So-Humble Pigeon

Aristotle And A Leather Jacket: An Example of Concept-Centered Teaching

Do Schools Suppress Rather Than Encourage The Imagination?

Tips For Imaginative Educators #12: Stimulate Wonder

Putting Principles of The Learning In Depth Program (LiD) Into

The Walking Curriculum Colouring Page!

Emotion At The Helm

Feeling, Activeness, & Place: An Eco-Imaginative Pedagogy

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