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Focused Imaging is an innovative teaching approach that harnesses children's imaginations, enabling them to create vivid mental images. This method is motivational and empowering, allowing students to learn more effectively while developing their creativity. With no wrong answers and opportunities to connect new information intuitively, Focused Imaging enhances self-esteem, improves self-expression, and cultivates better listening skills. However, it presents challenges in assessment and may require adaptations for diverse learning needs. Implementing this strategy involves creating a calming environment and engaging students through sensory experiences.
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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
