By Nimi Sidhu (Middle School teacher; MEd student in Imaginative Education) If I asked you today to trade in your name for one word that represents all you want to be, what word would you choose and why? This was the question that I asked my sixth graders in January of this year to set […]
Assessment: Why Are We All So Afraid?
By Dina Lenning (Grade 3/4 Montessori Public School Teacher; MEd student in Imaginative Education) As a teacher, assessment was always something I dreaded. I found it time consuming (too much marking!) and not as informative as I would have liked. As a student I had been petrified of assessment, not only because test anxiety is […]
Naturally Inspired, Imaginative Writing: The Walking Curriculum & Intermediate Students
By Darcie Booth (Grade 5 Teacher/MEd Student in Imaginative Education) Why should intermediate teachers use the Walking Curriculum (Judson, 2018)? Simply stated, it emotionally connects your students to their natural surroundings and awakens their imaginations. The Walking Curriculum can inspire, improve and increase written output for your students’ creative writing. As a Grade 5 classroom […]