Spring TIPS 2024 offers you an opportunity to imaginatively engage in that cognitive tool and Place-focused self-study with ongoing support. Rather than just learning about how to use Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE) with your students, you will employ IEE Principles of Feeling, Activeness, and Place/Sense of Place to your own learning.

Of course, you will ALSO learn more about how to use cognitive tools in your teaching for your students as you connect in weekly dialogical sessions with members of the IEE instructional team and other educators interested in imaginative ecological teaching practices

In this course you will: 

• engage cognitive tools to explore your personal beliefs, values, ideas
• take time to collaborate with the more-than-human world by exploring questions outdoors each week (you choose your special place)
• use your imagination with/in Place
• discuss how specific cognitive tools can be used in your teaching
• connect with others seeking to transform their practice
• learn more about how imagination contributes to your understanding and how it can support your students’ learning