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Issue 2.4

Creative Teaching & Learning

Snapshots, twitter and tiny people

Photography teacher Jane Hewitt inspires her students to look at the world from a different perspective, putting the power of creation and creativity in their hands!

  • 9 Jun 2014
  • 24mins
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Project Plan: Modern Slavery

Today as many as 27 million people endure some form of enslavement, many the same age as those taught in UK schools. The International Slavery Museum, part of National Museums Liverpool, introduces us to the very real problem of contemporary slavery in this issue’s cross-curriculum project plan.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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Modern slavery websites

As this issue of our cross-curriculum pack makes clear, slavery, unfortunately is not just a historical issue, but is alive and well as a modern-day evil. These websites will raise awareness of how slavery still touches the lives of your children.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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Portrait of myself

Embarking on a visual journey of self-discovery, deputy Head Roger Billing inspires with his experience of incorporating photography in the curriculum.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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Death of a great idea

Twenty years on from its launch, smothered by the establishment, Mary Mason explains why the Wigan Language Project failed to shake the status quo of English language teaching.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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The 100 word challenge

To provide a purpose for prose writing, Julia Skinner has developed the 100 Word Challenge to allow young creative writers to flourish in a safe online environment.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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The art of communication revived by Ofsted!

Ann O’Hara praises the new Ofsted framework for widening pupils’ horizons on a dialogic learning journey.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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How the young mind works

Dr Sue Lyle looks at the work of an inspirational teacher and a cognitive psychologist whose practice and theory in imaginative play provides the evidence to revolutionise the EYFS.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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Letting curiosity take the lid off learning

To inspire life-long learners and skilled thinkers we need to appeal to students’ natural sense of curiosity. Here Vice Principal Shannon Shields shares her experience of Kieran Egan’s innovative learning programme.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
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The real power of questions

Promoting a deep-thinking classroom culture is a result of teachers posing the right type of questions, says Ron Ritchhart.

  • 2 Mar 2012
  • 24mins
  • Ron Ritchhart