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 […]
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Literacy And Driving In Screws With A Hammer
Guest Post: Dr. Kieran Egan Driving in screws with a hammer 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 […]
How To Engage Young Learners: 7 Tools of the Imagination You Need To Use
Engaging and effective teachers of young children know how to tap into the imaginative lives of their students. 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 […]