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 […]
Month: May 2016
Do Schools Suppress Rather Than Encourage The Imagination?
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 […]
Tips For Imaginative Educators #12: Stimulate Wonder
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. […]