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Issue TTC7.3

Creative Teaching & Learning

The Question Tree

Frances Field and Nalini Randall explain strategies they use to enhance the abilities of children in primary school to learn through questioning.

  • 24 Nov 2006
  • 24mins
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Cultures For Thinking

Steve Williams continues the new professional development series with advice on how to create a culture of thinking in your school

  • 24 Nov 2006
  • 24mins
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Vibrant schools

Rob Ratcliff and Jan Chambers report on a project in Wiltshire to help primary schools become more creative and effective

  • 24 Nov 2006
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Stories students tell themselves

We hear more and more in schools about ‘dispositions’ and ‘habits of minds’. These expressions refer to a ‘tendency to think or behave in certain ways under certain conditions’. An important aim of schools is to help young people develop the kinds of behaviours that lead to effective thinking and independent learning.

  • 1 Jan 2005
  • 24mins
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Vocabulary for thinking

Steve Williams begins the new professional development series with advice on how to help learners improve their vocabulary of words for thinking

  • 1 Jan 2005
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Here comes the philosophy man!

Marcelo Staricoff argues for a philosophical approach to the primary curriculum

  • 1 Jan 2005
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The Grangeton Way

Richard Gerver explains how staff at his school took pupils on a journey of creativelearning – by turning the school into a town

  • 1 Jan 2005
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Gifted and Talented Time for a Re–think

Barry Hymer presents some rather uncomfortable findings about intelligence and achievement, and believes that it is time for a re–appraisal of these concepts.

  • 1 Jan 2005
  • 24mins
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Critical thinking and English literature

Belinda Hakes introduces some unlikely companions and explains how they respond to each other.

  • 1 Jan 2005
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Creative Partnerships

Wendy Andrews reviews the work of Creative Partnerships and reports on new research findings about the effectiveness of creative learning

  • 1 Jan 2005
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