I hope you continue to follow along on our IE adventure! The Heroic Classroom: November 6 Heroic Quality of the Day: Assessment (not a Heroic Quality, I know) I often use cognitive tools to assess my students daily on the depth of their understanding. This can take different forms. To begin with, I take time at the beginning of […]Read More
By Holly B.F. Warren (Atelierista and creator of the Think Tank) As I reflect on how COVID-19 has completely reshaped our global landscape, the word that walks along my fingertips and spills onto paper is “challenge” for all families, carers and teachers. Being forced to move our teaching environments so quickly online has eradicated us […]Read More
By Michelle McKay Michelle McKay is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) in Curriculum and Pedagogy and is a teacher with the Peel District School Board in Ontario (@MsMichelleMcKay). For educators around the world, this school year will be another ‘unprecedented’ experience as education continues to […]Read More
By Cecily Heras (MEd student & CIRCE Academic Council member) Since late 2019, I have worked as a Research Assistant on a project about imaginative assessment for learning (AfL) in the context of higher education. The project was led by Dr. Gillian Judson and supported by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant from Simon Fraser […]Read More
By Karen M Effa (Educator, MEd in IE; IE mentor) Stoked about the Somatic? This entry is a sequel to Karen’s first “Spotlight on the Somatic” post which you can read here. “Mime creates space by making visible the invisible” (Shope, 1989, p. 15). Looking for a simple, yet significant, way to engage students and […]Read More
By Norman Jackson Norman is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Surrey, Founder of Lifewide Education and Creative Academic. He has long standing interests in creativity, learning through life and the ecology of learning and is a member of the imagined community. This is the third part of a three part narrative. […]Read More
By Norman Jackson Norman is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Surrey, Founder of Lifewide Education and Creative Academic. He has long standing interests in creativity, learning through life and the ecology of learning and is a member of the imaginED community. This is the second part of a three part narrative. […]Read More
By Norman Jackson Norman is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Surrey and Founder of Lifewide Education and Creative Academic. He has long standing interests in creativity, learning through life and the ecology of learning and is a member of the imaginED community. This post is in three parts. The first provides […]Read More
By Michael D. Datura Michael is a teacher on the unceded territories of the Salish peoples, a doctoral candidate, and occasionally a poet. He’s a member of the Academic Council for CIRCE and teaches graduate-level teachers on an Imaginative Education approach to learning. He also likes long walks in the forest. After all, while this […]Read More
By Brandon Hendrickson All of a sudden, tens of millions of teachers around the globe are facing the same problem: How do we engage students’ whole minds —through a spotty internet connection? We’re seeing the limits to our standard educational answers. The methods many of us were taught were built for calm, […]Read More
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