By Dr. Kieran Egan Who wrote the greatest work about education? Plato. Who has presented the richest vision of human possibility and described detailed steps to its achievement? Plato. Who has outlined the most complex developmental theory? Plato. Who was the first to offer an extensive and detailed argument for the equal education of women […]Read More
Every child is unique. Effective teachers work constantly and creatively to meet the needs of all the students in their classrooms. Effective teachers also know that amidst the great diversity within their classrooms, there is something that all learners share: emotional responses. Shared human emotions create the plane upon which knowledge becomes most meaningful and memorable. Tip #10: Humanize. Connect curricular […]Read More
You may be relieved to hear that it’s very common for young people to collect things. Starting from about age 7 through to about age 14 or 15, collecting is a popular pastime for many young people. What did you collect? One thing I collected was stickers. I still have my sticker books and–believe it or not–30 years later those […]Read More
By Marlene Roseboom (Teacher, MEd in Imaginative Education) The question was recently put to me, seeing that April is poetry month, of how to use cognitive tools to teach poetry. That’s a pretty easy question to answer, seeing as poetry has embedded within itself many cognitive tools. (Think, for example, of emotion, imagery, metaphor, and music […]Read More
Guest Post: Dr. Kieran Egan You could, of course, drive in a screw with a hammer, but it’s hard work and in the process you will destroy the gripping power of the screw, and in the end you will have an ineffective result. A poor worker who does such a thing might be told that […]Read More
Some of our heroes are people that exemplify qualities such as ingenuity, flexibility, agility, determination, or reliability. For example, we are impressed by the extraordinary speed and strength of basketball player Lebron James or the extraordinary agility and accuracy of soccer player Lionel Messi. We are awestruck by the perceptiveness and intelligence of scientist Marie Curie. We admire the bravery of Rosa Parks […]Read More
You can learn to do the same by adding some “tools” to your teaching toolkit. These tools–or what are called cognitive tools in the Imaginative Education approach–reflect features of the imagination. If your students speak and have bodies (I’m sure they do!) then they come to your class/lesson already employing these tools. All you need to […]Read More
Imaginative teachers pull their students in; they intrigue them. They puzzle them. Of course, leaving students puzzling doesn’t mean leaving them confused. By puzzling I mean capturing students’ curiosity. Mystery intrigues us; it evokes emotion. The world is full of unanswered questions and puzzles. What’s more intriguing than that? Kieran Egan suggests that one of the worst things we can do […]Read More
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