A Call for Supporting Classroom Exploration and Teaching Well-Being
Educational psychologist Susan Engel, Ph.D., talks about how educators can encourage and guide curiosity and–most importantly–the importance school administrators to help create an environment that supports and enables teachers to do the important work of developing life-long learners.
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Susan Engel, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. She is also the author of the Intellectual Lives of Children (2021) and The End of the Rainbow (2016), among other books. She joined us at a Seedlings Facilitator gathering to share with us the many possibilities for engaging students in cultivating their natural inclinations for inquiry, invention and ideas.
Children Create Collections to Build Knowledge and Ideas
Children’s collections are their way of building knowledge. Sometimes those are things like pine cones and sometimes they are answers to their questions about specific topics. As children get older they begin to narrow what they are curious about. That narrowing of curiosity is essential to their ability to build ideas, says developmental psychologist Susan Engel, Ph.D.
