Focused Imaging By Emily Jeff and Alannah Opening

Focused Imaging By Emily, Jeff, and Alannah

Opening Activity

Explanation Focused Imaging is a method of teaching that utilizes the child’s imaginations by getting them to create images in their mind.

Features Motivational Empowering Structured freedom Develops creativity- Learn more effectively and develop their creativity by using their imaginations

Advantages No wrong answer Opportunity to draw on what they know both consciously and intuitively Provides a vehicle for newly acquired information to be stored and later retrieved with greater ease Students are working at their own levels Can be used for interdisciplinary connections Imaging enhances student’s self-esteem, improves selfexpression, increases control over personal behaviors, increases the ability to relax, and improves listening skills

Disadvantages Assessment – no wrong answer makes it hard to have a clear cut assessment Hard to know if the students are imagining what is assigned or if are completely off topic This method can be hard for students who learn best concretely This method can be hard to make adaptations to for students with needs Have plenty of time to take students on the journey, or else they will find the experience startling

Steps to Implementation Giving detailed overview of how this will be different from other lessons, and how the expectation of students will be altered Set a calming environment to encourage creativity Get students to relax (i. e. a good yawn and stretch, smiling, and take 1 -3 deep breaths) Describe to them to focus they are to imagine, use as many senses as possible (smell, see, hear, touch, taste) Develop an activity for students to demonstrate their understanding and express their individual images

Assessing Student Learning Discuss that the students body language will be monitored to make sure students are engaged in the image they are creating The teacher will examine the students’ work after the imagining and mark it based on creativity and effort Journaling Drawings, collage, paint Role play, dance, mime Literature – poem, story, write a play Expressing ideas verbally

Examples Memory Recall Activities: Show a tray of objects and get students to list them when tray is taken away Class gets into partners; put one set of partners in the hallway and get each partner to describe what the other partner is wearing Describing Image: Use music to lead students on an imaging adventure Give a description of the experience students are to go on Tell a story and get the students to visualize the images Put objects or images according to the topic to get students to create their own imagined scenario

Closing Activity

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