By Andrea Leeburn (IE MEd Student; French Immersion/FSL Teacher, Victoria, B.C.) As a second language teacher, I employ different “cognitive tools”, or tools of the imagination, to make language learning more engaging for my students and for myself. This approach is called Imaginative Education and it centralizes students’ emotions in teaching. In this unit on […]
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Cognitive tools–theoretical and practical examples
Place Value And Really Big Numbers
Using Narrative and Heroic Qualities to Teach Place Value: Practicing IE By Christa Rawlings (MEd in IE; Grade 6 Teacher) Note: Are you familiar with Imaginative Education (IE)? Learn more about IE here. I am going to talk a lot about “cognitive tools” in this post. Get more information on those in the Tools of Imagination series.) I always gravitate […]
Bringing 21st Century Electrons To A High School Near You
By Judy Dabideen-Sonachansingh Science is messy and complicated and full of errors. This is both the beauty and frustration of a cannon of human understanding that sometimes defies understanding; irony at its finest. It is in the messiness of Science that we have made some glorious discoveries that fill us with joy, wonder and perplexity. […]