1st Edition
A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum Inspiring Learning with Passion
Part I: The Theory, Philosophy and Approach Explained
- Introduction
- What is storyline?
- Learning and the curriculum
- Learning and pedagogy
- What does Storyline look like in the classroom?
- The Street
- The Letter
- The Challenge
- The Visitor
- Choosing your Storyline approach
- Storyline and curriculum planning
- Wats of presenting and assessing the learning
Part II: Four Approaches to Planning a Storyline
A storyline on the topic of World War 2
Storylines on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and on working with another school
A Junior Dragon’s Den Storyline
Storylines about visitors from space, from novels and from a poet
Part III: Assessment and Planning Approaches
Part IV: Appendices: Practitioner Examples, Plans, Case Studies and Templates
- Storyline in a day
- Alien writing frame
- Practitioner example: Alien story
- Practitioner example: WW11 example plan
- Practitioner example: Highland Clearances (The Street)
- Practitioner example: Wizard School (The Street)
- Practitioner example: M Q of S (The Letter)
- Practitioner example: Forest School (The Letter)
- Practitioner example: Our Railway (The Challenge)
- Practitioner example: Middle Ages (The Challenge)
- Practitioner example: Egypt: (The Visitor)
- Practitioner example: Wind Farm (The Visitor)
- Practitioner example: Noisy neighbours and Refugees (The Street)
- Synopsis planning format
- Blank planning format
- Storyline Planning template
- WW11 complete synopsis
- WW11 complete plan
- Rainforest complete synopsis
- Rainforest complete plan
- Deforestation example
- Assessment blank proforma
- Completed assessment grid
24. Using Templates
Biography
Peter Tarrant has been involved in teaching for 36 years and is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Initial Teacher Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been involved in a number of research projects involving topics such as teacher confidence and behaviour management, developing reflective practice, and using a peer learning approach towards metacognitive practice. He is author of Metacognition in the Primary Classroom (Routledge 2015). Peter regularly does INSET in schools and colleges and can be contacted at [email protected].
