Imagination“Imagination bodies forth the forms of things

unknown.”Shakespeare

Imagination“Good teachers thus have the ability to

Imagine themselves in their students’ placesHelp students imagine themselves in other

times, location, and circumstances.”

ImaginationWilliam James: “In teaching, you must simply

work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that everyone other subject of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with a devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.”

ImaginationImagine how to capture their imagination

This will differ from student to studentGood teachers try to contrive ways of using

their students’ varied interests to lead them to learn on their own

ImaginationImagination has to be assisted by memory

Teachers must summon recollections of their own struggles to learn

Must recall their own frustrations and failures

ImaginationImagination must be accompanied by

compassionBy a teacher’s understanding of the energies

that students expendBy a teacher’s understanding of the risks that

students take to gain knowledge

ImaginationImagination is the quality that allows

teachers to tackle subject matter in novel and attractive waysTo play with knowledgeTo find fresh and distinctive approaches to

putting facts and arguments togetherTo respond to the interests of the studentsTo respond to the situations of the students

Imagination“Imagination in teaching begins with

confidence that knowledge is transferable.”HopeSome way of getting throughLearning can happen. Now how do I make it

happen?

Imagination“Imaginative teachers find their own ways to

enhance learning.”Challenges to introducing knowledge

Each student Each classroom Each subject Each occasion

Imagination“Imagination means visualizing students’

futures.”Teaching invites students to enter into a world

of infinite possibilities of thought and visionTeaching aims at enriching students minds and

spirits so that they can lead full lives through their understanding of life itself.

Students can see knowledge as possible lives

Imagination“Imagination emphasizes the needs and

reactions of students.”Teachers must present what students do not

yet know in attractive and positive formsTeachers must convince students that they can

Master new subject matter Play with new knowledge Create their own understanding of the world

Imagination“Imagination enhances and facilitates the

presentation of subject matter.”Good teachers will make the strange familiar

and the unintelligible obvious by imagining their students’ difficulties in advance

ImaginationTeaching is always an act of faith.A teacher’s sustaining faith in the capacity of

knowledge and understanding to enrich lifeImagination in teaching thus has more to do

with potential than with realization.Imagination allows a teacher to take each

achievement of instruction as an invitation to envisage the outcome of the next challenge.

ImaginationImagination is a quality of vision and spiritIt must be summoned from within