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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
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Focused Imaging By Emily, Jeff, and Alannah
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 self-expression, 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 out objects or images according to the topic to get students to create their own imagined scenario