Marie-Jeanne McNaughton The Global Storylines website is now up and running. Diana from WOSDEC has done an excellent job in getting this all together. Please have a look if you’re interested in education or the Scottish Storyline method.
Oslo University College Per Anders Aas & Siv Eie As part of a cultural study visit to Scotland 48 social science students from Oslo and Akershus University College attended a morning workshop in the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow. The purpose of the course was to introduce them to Storyline thinking and the travel topic ...
Storyline Course in Maryhill Burgh Hall, Glasgow For the last 10 years Marit Storhaug of Oslo University College and her colleagues have brought groups of student teachers on a one week cultural visit to Scotland. As a part of their experience they attend a morning workshop on the Storyline approach presented by Sallie Harkness and ...
The Storyline Method – A helpful strategy for the foreign language classroom As in recent years the European Comenius grant enabled 11 German and Spanish English teachers to meet for a10 day Storyline course in Glasgow. Run by the two storyliners Gisela Ehlers and Hannelore Tait from the Teacher Training Institute IQSH in Schleswig-Holstein Germany, ...
Engage with Strathclyde (University) – Thursday May 3rd 2012 This event which was held in the McCance Building provided a showcase for the work done in year 2 of the Global Storylines Project by WOSDEC <www.wosdec.org> in collaboration with Glasgow City Council and the University of Strathclyde. Sallie Harkness, Maureen Bell from St Charles Primary, Ruth ...
Comenius Partnership Project Kinnaird Primary School has just completed its first year of a two year Comenius-funded partnership project with Herrhagsskolan, a primary school in Karlstad, Sweden and the Oslo Mottessori School, Norway. All three schools use the Storyline methodology as a framework to support inter-disciplinary learning and were keen to further develop their skills ...
Diana Ellis Currently in the second year, WOSDEC (www.wosdec.org), Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde University are working together on this exciting three year joint partnership project. This project enables WOSDEC and partners to: create new ‘Global Storylines’, where pupils explore challenging global issues within the safe forum of the fictional community that Storyline offers; train ...
Alison Campbell Throughout April, May and June, the 26 pupils in P6C at Lochside Primary School, Montrose, Scotland learned about Great Scots through the use of the Scottish Storyline Method. The aim of the project was to encourage the pupils to discover the numerous famous people that have come from Scotland, and for the pupils ...
Congratulations to Fiona McGarry, Lecturer in Education at Dundee University who designed a Storyline Unit as part of the B Ed programme and has been awarded a Highly Commended for Innovative Teaching from the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University. Fiona, seen here on the right, was presented with her award on ...
Theresa Kuenzel, Karlsruhe, Germany The Storyline Method extended my opportunities in life – 16 fabulous weeks in a Scottish school My name is Theresa Künzel and I will be a teacher for Primary and Secondary Schools in Germany. I got to know the Storyline Method during my stay abroad at Halmstad University, Sweden 2007/2008. Then ...