Creative Teaching and Learning (formerly Teaching Thinking & Creativity)
Issue 10.2
Podcast dreams
- Description:
- Making and broadcasting a radio show can help students who aren’t confdent with literacy to explore their creativity. Caroline Twigge explains.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
A River Child
- Description:
- This cross-curricular project pack introduces the story of Mohammed - a ten-year-old Nigerian boy whose village depends on the river Benue. It is aimed at children aged 9-12 and uses drama, writing and imagination techniques to teach geography and environmental issues, says Dr Sue Lyle.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Virtual vikings
- Description:
- History is a diffcult subject to teach speaking and listening in - it’s about memorising facts, not discussion. But now kids can ask a real viking questions - with the Jorvik viking centre’s ‘skype experience’. Hannah Trinder explains.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Learning about learning
- Description:
- Helping students to understand how they learn can unlock greater motivation and amazing results, says Chris Watkins.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Rewriting history
- Description:
- History isn’t static. We’re interpreting it every time we discuss it, and constantly fnding new ways of looking at it. Neil Tonge explains how the cross-curricular local history project he coordinated gave students pride in Newcastle.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Creative vocations
- Description:
- Creativity and thinking skills aren’t the sole preserve of academic learning. Teachers need to teach thinking in vocational FE courses, too. Martin Renton shares lesson ideas.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Intelligent learning
- Description:
- A new DVD training programme - which shows teachers how to encourage questions - is so good it’s been used by an education action zone. Gerry Miller reports.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Soul and Chips
- Description:
- Computers are often seen as an enemy of RE. They seem cold, impersonal and spiritually dead. But Julian Stern’s unique – and often bizarre! – IT-based lesson ideas for primary RE teachers will push you to book the computer suite.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
The tiger who came to class!
- Description:
- When education consultant Debra Kidd was asked to help Girnhill infant’s school's reluctant readers, she created a cross-curricular creative project on 'the tiger who came to tea'.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Classroom detectives
- Description:
- Using the Sherlock Holmes stories to inspire questioning and logical thinking in the classroom teaches children vital thinking skills, says Crispin Andrews. He shares a creative writing project he used with his primary school class.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
Diploma defence
- Description:
- 14-19 diplomas – supporting creativity, or turning the arts into a CV-able Commodity? Two years into its delivery, Rosanna Ryan looks at the diploma in Creative and Media.
- Submitted On:
- 16/12/2009
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