An Invitation From PENNYPENNY invites you to Imaginative Inquiry: Creating an Expert Team to Ignite Inquiry! Imaginative Inquiry places students at the center of compelling narratives that engage them in deep and purposeful learning. By enlisting them as a team of experts who are given an important task to fulfill, students step into the active role of researchers, problem-solvers and leaders. In this workshop presentation, participants will learn about the pedagogical underpinnings of Imaginative Inquiry, see examples of its use in elementary school classrooms, and discuss how Imaginative Inquiry can be a powerful tool for teaching social studies and social justice. Developed in the United Kingdom, Imaginative Inquiry is a pedagogy based on the idea that children’s imagination is our greatest resource in the classroom. Within a community of inquiry, teachers and students create exciting and meaningful contexts for learning, using conventions of theatre such as point of view, tension, and narrative, to explore curricular objectives. Students are not merely passive observers of the stories of our world, but are collectively invited to take action in the realm of possibility that Imaginative Inquiry provides. This event will be hosted by Elaine Chu, co-founder of the Institute for Imaginative Inquiry. She has over fifteen years’ experience of classroom teaching in independent and public elementary schools in New York City, and offers professional development to teachers and administrators on developing social studies curricula using an Imaginative Inquiry approach. Date: Monday, November 16, 2020 |
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