Exercising your imagination

All learning experiences begin with a theme and content. It’s what happens after and during the lesson that enriches and deepens the act of learning. Tapping into children’s imaginations not only builds confidence, but also connections in the brain by strengthening the synapses. Without imagination, how can our future dreams be fully lived?

Fostering children’s imaginations begins with involving them into the lesson. The art of questioning during a lesson builds teamwork and fosters independent cognitive thinking. Envelope the children’s ideas into the lesson, support different lens, and model imagination and fun. Bring back the inner child to your imagination, and you will create an environment of no limits on learning.

Open-ended artwork with a learning theme can be achieved by first shared discussion on the theme. Introduce facts, then open the dialogue for questions, opinions and ideas. Have different materials and mediums available, and provide simplistic instructions to use the art materials and their imagination creating their own interpretation of the lesson. Using open-ended artwork can be a tool to record children’s learning experience and what parts of the lesson were prominent for each student.