Teaching Imagination in Place: Spring TIPS

Spring TIPS 2024 offers you an opportunity to imaginatively engage in that cognitive-tool and Place-focused self-study with ongoing support. Rather than just learning about how to use IEE with your students, you will employ IEE Principles of Feeling, Activeness and Place/Sense of Place to your own learning.

Of course, you will ALSO learn more about how to use cognitive tools in your teaching for your students as you connect in a weekly dialogical sessions with members of the IEE instructional team and other educators interested in imaginative ecological teaching practices.

In this program you will:

• engage cognitive tools to explore your personal beliefs, values, ideas
• take time to collaborate with the more-than-human world by exploring questions outdoors each week (you choose your special place)
• use your imagination with/in Place
• discuss how specific cognitive tools can be used in your teaching
• connect with others seeking to transform their practice
• learn more about how imagination contributes to your understanding and how it can support your students’ learning