Guide students to construct their own meanings and understandings about different concepts and phenomena.
Teacher sensitivity
Be sensitive to children's personal wonder experience.
Teacher as a role model
Display and share your personal wonder experiences and fascinations
Stimulate imagination
Stimulate the students' imagination, for example, by making narrative-based lesson structure and asking student's for creating stories.
Defamiliarising the familiar
Guide children to find the strange, mysterious, and wonderful in the everyday.
Encourage contemplation
Encourage attentive awareness, sensory rather than cognitive, to what presents itself in the moment, in the outer as well as the inner world.
POLICIES for supporting wonder-full learning
Less focus on test and method centred education
Stimulates / allows teachers to take time during lessons for students' interests, as well as for their own, which may lead student's to discover new interests.
Enriched education
Offer an enriched environment.
"if a school wants to promote wonder in children, there should be time for 'aimless' exploration"
Child-focused education
Stimulate students to be curious and inquisitive, to engage all their senses, to make a personal connection with the subject matter and to discover their own specific interests.
Take-home message
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