By Carolina Lopez (MEd in Imaginative Education; Director/Founder Educación Imaginativa de México) I am a native Spanish speaker who trained as an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor in Canada. I’ve been studying English since I was 6 years old and it has always been a part of my life. I live close to […]
Tag: #toolsofimagination
Cognitive tools–theoretical and practical examples
A Magical Teaching Moment
I love receiving feedback from educators about their imaginative ecological teaching practices! Recently I heard about one teacher’s success using the Walking Curriculum. Carrie Lundy teaches a multi-age Grade 3/4 class at Governor Semple school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She recently took her students to Assiniboine Park on a field trip for a program called A River Runs Through It. The […]
Tell Stories And Unleash The Drama
Using Dramatic Participatory Processes By Gregory Lendvay, PhD Magical teachers are storytellers! I learned that from an old man that I lived next to as a young child. He set up activities in his garage so that I could join in making things and repairing objects that were broken. He put hand tools on a […]