Welcome to the IERG ProD Conference on Imagination in Education

This ProD conference on imagination in education will:

  • Show why the imagination should be considered one of the main work-horses of learning
  • Highlight the specic features of students’ imaginative lives that teachers should consider
  • Support teachers in developing imaginative lessons through demonstrations of imaginative practice
  • Demonstrate how to engage students’ and teachers’ imaginations in a variety of environments
  • Describe how the following imaginative
    programs work: Learning in Depth & Imaginative Ecological Education

Program at a glance

08.00 – 08.30Sign-in
08.30 – 08.50Introduction & Announcements
08.50 – 09.30Keynote – Prof. Kieran Egan
09.30 – 09.45Coffee break
09.45 – 11.00Sessions

– Primary/Early Elementary Examples
– Intermediate/Middle School Examples
– Secondary ENGLISH/ESL
– Secondary SCIENCE/MATH
– Secondary/Intermediate SOCIAL STUDIES/Media Education
– Newbies session on Imaginative Education
– Session on Learning in Depth (LiD)

11.00 – 11.15Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00Imaginative Education sessions

– ALL participants EXPERIENCING IE

12.00 – 12.30Lunch
12.30 – 13.45Workshop sessions
13.45 – 14.00Afternoon break
14.00 – 14.30Roundtables & final announcements

TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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IMAGINATION:
The Heart of Learning
The IERG at SFU will
highlight some of the
features of its work
that have proven very
successful in engaging
students’ imaginations
in learning, and
teachers’ imagination
in teaching.

LOCATION

KB Woodward Elementary School

13130 106 Ave, Surrey, BC
8.30 am – 2.30 pm

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By skytrain

Directions 5-10 min walk: Get off at Gateway or Surrey Central Skytrain Station. Head WEST on 104 Avenue. At 132 Street head NORTH. Turn and head WEST on 106 Avenue. Voila. You are there.”

Feedback ProD 2014

‘I wanted to thank you for allowing me to be part of the presentation on Imaginative Education Research Group. The whole idea is incredibly exciting and fits in very well with my personal educational philosophy.’

‘In all honestly, rarely do professional development day activities have a lasting resonance as this one had on me.’

‘It is too bad I have already done my Master’s, otherwise I would be jumping right on this one.’

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MORE INFO ON THE PRESENTATIONS

Anne Chodakowski – “The Salmon”—An IE Approach to Teaching Science
Christa Rawlings – Place Value and Really BIG Numbers—Looking at the Heroic Qualities of Place Value (Grade 7)
Gillian Bateman – Let’s Start Early: Developing Students Who Imagine, Inquire and Investigate
James Johnson – “Poetry in Social Studies 11”—Engaging students ’Romantic Understanding and fosteringPhilosophic thinking in SS
Jim Davies – An Anomalous Evolution Unit
Jocelyn McIntosh – Learning in Depth: How To Start
Judy Dabideen-Sonachansingh – From Soil to Table
Kavita Hoonjan – Maps—A Matter of Survival – Honeybees – intro lesson
Kelly Robinson  – “No devices, just your brains”
Kym Stewart – Re-Imagining Media Education
Lindsay Zebrowski – “Media Detectives Academy”: Early Primary Medi aLiteracy
Melissa Crocker (Cheung) – The Art of Persuasion
Nasibah Dhagistani – An Imaginative Lesson on Women’s Rights
Natasha Morley – Walking a Mile in their Moccasins
Olwen Cowen – Learning in Depth in the Gifted Classroom (or How I Learned that the Octopus Can Regrow an Arm)
Pam Hagen – Affect for Effect
Ryan Hughes – Scavenger Hunt: Collecting New Perspectives
Stephanie Boileau – Teaching the Core Competencies in the new BC Curriculum Through Stories