Creative Teaching and Learning (formerly Teaching Thinking & Creativity)
Issue 9.4
Culture clash
- Description:
- ‘Get it: the power of cultural learning’ is a new report by independent thinktank ‘the Culture and Learning Consortium’. It says that by joining forces, schools, government and cultural organisations can change the lives of young people with art, music and drama. Lucy Busuttil discovers two arts groups already using culture to change lives.
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- 29/07/2009
Boosting the pupil voice
- Description:
- Allowing your students to create the lesson plan sounds like volunteering for anarchy! But when primary teacher Luisa Dolton tried it, she boosted her students’ motivation and willingness to take on challenging tasks.
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- 29/07/2009
Museums and schools converge
- Description:
- Museums, schools and families all have one central role in common: to conserve and reproduce cultural knowledge and skills. But it is one of the remarkable aspects of our society that these three pillars of cultural learning have been so isolated from one another.
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- 29/07/2009
Imaginative Revolution
- Description:
- According to the education theory 'Imaginative Education', if a subject stimulates children’s imaginations they will absorb more facts and get better grades. Gillian Judson explores how Imaginative Education can bring the industrial revolution, and other technological topics, to life.
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- 29/07/2009
Introducing Read all about It!
- Description:
- In this set of activities, teacher Martin Renton describes his middle school’s week-long cross-curriculum newspaper project. The project was designed to meet the demands of Curriculum 2008 for a 9 – 13 age range school, incorporating the Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills framework in ICT, literacy and history.The activities form part of a new teaching and learning pack to be published by Imaginative Minds.
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- 29/07/2009
Opening doors
- Description:
- Two reports on learning in museums promise to shake up the way museums present themselves to the public. David Anderson reports on developments in his museum – the V&A.
- Submitted On:
- 29/07/2009
The whole world in their hands
- Description:
- www.raf.ki is an international social networking site, like Facebook, for students and teachers. Teacher Sam Eyre shares how his students have used it to make new friends and spark new ideas with teenagers from around the world.
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- 29/07/2009
Webquest wonders
- Description:
- Nine national museums are about to complete a three-year project of curriculum-specifc webquests that make museum collections accessible to schoolchildren. Steve Gardam from the Imperial War museum and Clare Gittings from the National Portrait gallery explore how you can use the new resources with your class.
- Submitted On:
- 29/07/2009
Mountains to climb
- Description:
- After using our 'Arctic stories' pack, headteacher Heathe Gosney was inspired to create her own cross-curricular week-long project. She wrote to tell us about the highs and lows of her ‘Mountains’ project!
- Submitted On:
- 29/07/2009
Thinking caps on!
- Description:
- Two innovative teaching techniques - Edward de Bono's Six thinking hats and Thinking Actively in a Social Context (TASC) - have boosted behaviour and attendance at a school near Manchester. Simon Beswick, John Smith and Sue Wright report fom Lime Tree primary school.
- Submitted On:
- 09/12/2009
Digging up the past
- Description:
- Children shouldn’t be told history – they need to discover it for themselves. Teacher Christopher Russell shares the innovative teaching methods he used when he partnered his primary school with a local museum.
- Submitted On:
- 29/07/2009
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