On August 14, 2021, IMS completed its third 8-session webinar presenting the unique “Technology of Scientific Education”. During these seemingly interminable lock-down pandemic times, this remote format has proven quite effective in making the IMS specialized technical knowledge available to a wide audience of parents and educators around the world.
Lee Havis, inventor of this technology, has led all three webinars, each one improving in quality and content from the one before. The first session of the third webinar, Function of Scientific Teaching, was held on June 26, 2021 and included an example of using the technique eye contact, along with the protocol eye contact before talking. The final session #8, held on August 14, 2021, featured the resolution of unknown errors in the adult personality by using the technique imagination-previsioning.
Each one-hour session was held on consecutive Saturdays, at 7:00 PM, ET (USA), offering a variety of images, video, examples, and live discussion, focusing on such topics as “Talking with Children” and “Resolving Misbehavior”. Lee emphasized that an important part of the webinar was a special “home study report” he includes after each session for “websters” (webinar participants) to practice what was learned at home or in classroom with children.
Since each session is recorded, re-broadcast is possible and offered throughout the webinar on the basis of interest. Lee notes that, “Many websters especially appreciated tuning into these re-broadcast sessions to improve and reinforce learning gained from their original presentation”
Each webinar focused on the main function of scientific teaching, within an “individual child framework”, which is the secret to “true natural” scientific teaching. In this framework, the “hub” child is an unknown entity, surrounded by three components: (1) physical objects, (2) other children, and (3) adult personality. The first session focused especially on this unique framework, showing how the function of scientific teaching is to remove disorder in the surrounding three components of the environment. When this is done, there is just left the influence of laws of nature, and it is this “scientific” environment, committed to laws of nature, that allows the child’s true natural to spontaneously emerge.
Further webinars on the technology will be offered based on interest. The unique advantage of this webinar is that it brings the technology to parents and teachers around the world in a very convenient way that avoids the expense and inconvenience of long distance travel. Contact IMS for more information. havis@imsmontessori.org.
