A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum: Inspiring Learning with Passion

by Peter Tarrant

Overview

A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum provides a comprehensive introduction to the Storyline approach to teaching and learning – an approach that embraces and encourages children’s passion for learning. Putting children at the centre of learning, the book explores how educators and teachers can harness pupils’ innate appetite for stories to make interdisciplinary teaching and learning enjoyable and successful.

Demonstrating how teachers can easily use the Storyline approach within the curriculum, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to learning developed through the use of narrative. Key topics explained include:

• planning individual lessons and sequences of lessons;
• guidance on planning and progress;
• assessment and evaluation of learning;
• links with visible learning and growth mindset approaches.

Filled with detailed examples of storylines that have been tried and tested in the classroom, A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum offers new and experienced teachers an accessible guide to the Storyline approach, with ready-to-use ideas to enable, inspire and support learners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351055642
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

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 [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Part I: The Theory, Philosophy and Approach Explained

1. Introduction
2. What is storyline?
3. Learning and the curriculum
4. Learning and pedagogy
5. What does Storyline look like in the classroom?

Part II: Four Approaches to Planning a Storyline

6. The Street: A WWII Storyline, Plan and Process
7. The Letter: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and a Health and Wellbeing Storyline
8. The Challenge: Junior Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice Storylines
9. The Visitor: A Visitor from Space, The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch and a Rabbie Burns Storyline

Part III: Assessment and Planning Approaches

10. Choosing your Storyline Approach
11. Storyline and Curriculum Planning
12. Ways of Presenting and Assessing the Learning

Part IV: Appendices: Practitioner Examples, Plans, Case Studies and Templates

1. Storyline in a day
2. Alien writing frame
3. Practitioner example: Alien story
4. Practitioner example: WW11 plan
5. Practitioner example: Highland Clearances (The Street)
6. Practitioner example: Wizard School (The Street)
7. Practitioner example: Mary Queen of Scots
8. Practitioner example: Forest School (The Letter)
9. Practitioner example: Our Railway
10. Practitioner example: Middle Ages (The Challenge)
11. Practitioner example: Egypt:
12. Practitioner example: Wind Farm
13. Practitioner example: New Neighbours and Refugees (The Street)
14. Synopsis Planning pro forma
15. Storyline Planning pro forma
16. Storyline Planning template
17. WW11 complete synopsis
18. WW11 complete plan
19. Rainforest complete synopsis
20. Rainforest complete plan
21. Deforestation example
22. Assessment blank proforma
23. Completed assessment grid

24. Using Templates