Share Your Heroic Teaching

WE INVITE YOU to create your own teaching resource and/or you can revise the current teaching resources to improve them as you see fit.  All the materials on the website has an open license which gives you the permission to reuse, remix, revise , retain, and redistribute the materials for free.

Here are some simple guidelines to help you create a successful teaching resource

• The title should highlight your heroic character’s name
• Your name and affiliation should follow the title
• You will need to add a Creative Commons license to your document
• The following guidelines about the content of your teaching resource are meant to support your success in authoring your resource.
• Provide the background story about the times, culture, society, and environment of the heroic character’s journey.
• Describe the distinguishing features and actions of the heroic character, especially the conflict(s) the hero has to navigate
• Include reflections on how these distinguishing features can be applied to our lives today
• Provide learning assignments where students are asked to apply what they have understood about the hero’s character and actions to the own lives by writing a story about a past episode in their lives, a current circumstance they are dealing with, or a future endeavor they are planning.
• Save your document as a PDF and email it to: webmaster.merot.org 
• We’re are committed to posting additional heroic teaching resources timely manner and will work with you to post a resource you are proud of sharing.

The Heroic Imagination resources can be useful in a variety of courses across a variety of disciplines.   Consider bringing the concept of heroism into:

• Anthropology
• Human resource management
• Economics
• Ethnic Studies
• Gender Studies
• Health Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Workshop on student leadership
• and many more....  Your imagination can bring heroism into just about any learning opportunity

Taxonomy of Heroes by Philip Zimbardo

You are welcome to download and apply the following psychological analysis of different types of heroes as you create your own heroic profiles in literature.  

Why we need to embrace Heroic Imagination!   In this Psychology Today blog,   Dr. Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary K.M. Sword explore and explain the need to bring the concepts and strategies to Heroic Imagination into everyday life.

The Stanford Prison Experiment 50 Years Later: A Conversation with Philip Zimbardo