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Issue 1.2

Creative Teaching & Learning

The gadget show project

Julie Meiner, Assistant Headteacher, explains how Kings Oak Learning Centre champions the importance of risk taking in developing the skills that children need.

  • 13 Jul 2010
  • 24mins
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The Secret Life of Images

Critical thinking through visual images in the inclusive classroom: A cross curriculum project. Tony Hurlin reveals all.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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What is a thinking school?

Many attempts to introduce thinking skills into schools have faltered. Bob Burden gives clear advice on how intentions to introduce a cognitive curriculum do not have to remain simply wide-eyed aspirations.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Using dramatic enquiry to explore controversies in science

With the increasing prominence of ‘How Science Works’ in science courses in England, the need to engage young people in the controversies thrown up by the advance of science has never been greater. Neil Phillipson and Gordon Poad describe an exciting teaching strategy for doing just that.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Thinking with rich concepts

Clinton Golding explains how to get students thinking about thinking.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Cross curriculum project plan – Engaging hearts and minds

Head Teachers have voted to boycott the SATs – will teaching change as a result? What will happen to the Literacy Hour when teachers don’t feel the curriculum is restrained by the SATs? Ellen Lloyd has some answers.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Learning from school buildings

Pippa Smith explains how school buildings can provide a starting point for studying the past - and for a wealth of cross-curricular projects.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Explore to be creative

Daniel Raven-Ellison explains how we can capture the learning that takes place when students are travelling.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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Establishing the creative curriculum

Headteacher Catrin Parry-Jones describes Surlingham School’s ongoing journey in being a ‘School of Creativity’.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins
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E-learning reports – Technology and learning

We look at how mobile phones and social networking sites - often seen as threatening to teachers’ and students’ well-being - can be used beneficially in education.

  • 14 Jun 2010
  • 24mins