imaginative education meets children’s literature
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Imaginative Education Meets Children’s Literature. [email protected]. Simplify the IERG. The goal of this presentation is to support the goal of the IERG, to make education engaging and meaningful, while suggesting a simpler process for implementation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Simplify the IERG
• The goal of this presentation is to support the goal of the IERG, to make education engaging and meaningful, while suggesting a simpler process for implementation.
• Webquests with well defined adversarial roles, and McKenzie’s Module Maker 2 from Questioning.org may also work well
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The Imaginative Education Research Group introduces new theories, principles, and practical techniques for making education more effective. Because engaging students' imaginations in learning, and teachers' imaginations in teaching, is crucial to making knowledge in the curriculum vivid and meaningful, we call this new approach Imaginative Education (IE). The work of The Imaginative Education Research Group is dedicated to showing how this can be done routinely in everyday classrooms and at home. Unfortunately so much of the content of the curriculum is routinely taught as though its natural habitat is a textbook rather than the fears, hopes, and passions of real people that students too commonly find it dull and lifeless, and un-engaging. We believe the ideas, materials, and practices on this website can show how to bring the curriculum to life
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IERG History
• Egan Published Teaching as Storytelling in 1988
• Established the IERG at Simon Fraser U in Vancouver
• Lots of awards
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Egan Video
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Objective: Students will pick a topic or story to develop into a topic using the Imaginative Education Research Group templates and Guides. They will then build a lesson plan based on one of the IERG guides. Planning Framework
Students will select some aspect of their elementary curriculum to develop using a story based on the Binary Opposites lesson plan. The plan should tell us what book is being used, how it relates to the lesson, and what the emotional hook/binary opposite is, ie what is the dynamic tension. Be sure to watch the binary opposites video for review. Attached under files are two lesson plans from Spring that can let you see what the output from the assignment should look like. Please review the websites linked carefully, as they explain Kieran Egan's Teaching as Storytelling concepts in detail.Assessment: In addition to following the guides, the plan document gives the Story or Storybook being used, and the subject area being taught. Planning Frameworks Guides
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THE STORY FORM MODELIDENTIFYING IMPORTANCE:
What is most important about this topic?Why should it matter to children?What is affectively engaging about it?
FINDING BINARY OPPOSITES:
What powerful binary opposites best catch the importance of the topic? ORGANIZING CONTENT INTO STORY FORM:
What content most dramatically embodies the binary opposites, in order to provide access to the topic?What content best articulates the topic into a developing story form?
CONCLUSION:
What is the best way of resolving the dramatic conflict inherent in the binary opposites? What degree of mediation of those opposites is it appropriate to seek?
EVALUATION:
How can one know whether the topic has been understood, its importance grasped, and the content learned?
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Three Basic Frameworks
• Mythic
• Romantic
• Philosophic
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Hook
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Topic: Ancient Civilizations (The Roman Empire)
Subject Area: Social Studies
Cognitive Tool: Narrative StructuringWhat’s the story on the small Roman state that, at one point, dominated vast areas of the world? A narrative on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire can be one focused largely on human ambition. Deceit and murder were no strangers to the drama of Roman leadership. One part of the narrative, then, would focus on the nature of the ambition demonstrated by emperors of Rome. One might also look at the army. The Roman army was also a major contributor to the building of the empire. How is military might an example of ambition? Of course, ambition can have positive and negative effects. It is generally noted, for example, that Rome suffered from an entire list of problems. These included: a series of emperors whose military leaders sought to overthrow them (some emperors had military leaders killed thereby weakening leadership in their armies), endless infighting, weakening Roman unity (by the end Rome had two capitals, Rome and Constantinople, each with its own emperor), economic problems (Rome was spending far more than it could afford and by the end didn’t have enough gold or silver to make its own coins), mass migration, and plagues (illness decimated the Roman population). By addressing the reasons behind the rise and fall of Rome in terms of ambition our students will encounter the extremes of ambition, its pros and cons, and the human source of this great empire. At what point did the desire for power of Rome as a whole, not to mention individual Romans, lead to its demise? Such questions can be resolved in vivid narratives.
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Best Books for ChildrenReview“A reference catalog particularly for librarians featuring summaries of over 25,000 in-print titles suitable for children in grades K-6. Each entry lists the title, author, publication date, price, ISBN, page count, and a one-sentence summary. Review citations for the listed books draw upon six respected publications: Booklist, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Horn Book, Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, and School Library Journal; these citations direct the librarian toward a more detailed discussion and evaluation of the title in question.
An easy-to-use reference, sorted by book category and featuring a comprehensive index, ^IBest Books for Children Preschool Through Grade 6^R is a helpful and enthusiastically recommended tool for children's librarians everywhere."–Reviewer's Bookwatch
"Along with their siblings, Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers, Grades 6-9 (2004) and Best Books for High School Readers, Grades 9-12 (2004), these titles are essential resources for school and public libraries.
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How?
• Read aloud / guided reading• Partner reading• Inner voice (Tovani, 2000)• Coding the text
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Read Aloud / Guided Reading
• Research shows:– Can generate interest in a topic– Give struggling readers access to information
in difficult texts used in classroom– Provide opportunity to model thinking process
to comprehend text
(Vacca & Vacca, 2005)
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Read Aloud / Guided Reading
• Method:1st – Select books or text that:
• Hold interest• Stimulate discussion• Reflect many different cultures• Match social and emotional levels of listeners
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Read Aloud / Guided Reading
• Method:– 2nd – Prepare by practicing
– Last no longer than 15 minutes – Use props (maps or pictures)
– 3rd – No need to read cover to cover– Reading excerpts from book, magazine, newspaper
article can be more effective
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Partner Reading
• Research shows:– Partner reading supports less able readers
and can increase motivation
Rasinski, 2003
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Partner Reading
• Method:– Partners help each other clarify confusing
parts– Partners retell main idea or events– Partners can also predict what might happen
next– Teacher circulates during partner reading to
assess comprehension
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Inner Voice
• Tovani stated:– Good readers carry on a conversation with
the author – called a conversational voice– Good readers know when they are using their
recital voice (not paying attention to what is read) and begin to get distracted
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Inner Voice
• Method– Mark text with stopping points– Have students record what they were thinking
about on a sheet of paper– Reveals where students get distracted– Many students are not aware that they are
distracted and no longer comprehending the text
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Coding the text
• Research shows:– Confident readers connect what they already
know to what they are reading
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Coding the text
• Method– Teach 3 symbols (check mark, ! and ?)– Check means I knew this (background
knowledge)– ! Means this is important to remember– ? Means I am confused or don’t understand
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Coding the Text
• ? Are topics for discussion or further inquiry
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Recommendations
• Ditch the textbook for experienced teachers• Pay them to develop their own materials• Look for the emotional engagement of the
new content• Refer them to the IERG website for
planning frameworks• Use Children’s Literature as a resource for
ALL subjects
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ReferencesAppleby, J., Brinkley, A., & McPherson, J. M. (1998). The American Journey. New York:
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FCAT Design Summary. (2005). Retrieved March 27, 2006 from http://www.firn.edu/doe/sas/fcat/pdf/fc05designsummary.pdf.
Rasinski, T. V. (2003). The fluent reader. New York: Scholastic Professional Books
Tovani, C. (2000). I read it, but I don’t get it: Comprehension strategies for adolescent readers. Portland, MA: Stenhouse.
Vacca, R.T., & Vacca, J.L. (2005). Content area reading: Literacy and learning across the curriculum. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.