Our Street ← Storyline Scotland

Storyline “Yes, we can”

Jul

2009

Inga Riedel This Storyline has been designed by me and then implemented by a seventh grade class in a lower high school (Hauptschule) in Schleswig Holstein, Germany. Starting with a fact file of Hurricane Katrina, the students decided to rebuild an area of New Orleans – the characters, the houses and shops. The Storyline has ...

Rendsburg Storyline Workshop

Oct

2008

For foreign language teachers of primary and secondary schools in Schleswig-Holstein Gisela Ehlers IQSH-Kiel, Course Director The workshop started on Monday with the creation of the story setting “Our Street” including houses, shops and a beach area. The very attractive frieze that was produced became the focus for lively discussion about second language teaching possibilities ...

Cyber-bullying

Mar

2007

In a recent article by Douglas Blane in the Times Educational Supplement Scotland (Friday March 30th 2007), Helen Glen, headteacher at Springhill Primary in East Renfrewshire, described how she had identified a problem with a P6 class as being caused by cyber-bullying. Pupils were using mobile phones and computer chatrooms to bully other children in ...

English for Life: Using Storyline to teach English in school years 1-6

May

2006

Sharon Ahlquist, The University of Kristianstad, Sweden During the spring of 2006 25 Swedish primary school teachers took part in Storyline The Street. The course ran for ten weeks, meeting one evening a week, and its aim was to show how the Storyline method can be used to fulfil the objectives of the syllabus for English ...

Storyline 1 Summer Course in Oregon

Aug

2004

The Storyline 1 course is validated by Portland State University. To gain credit the participants have to attend all five days of the course, keep a reflective diary with an entry for each day and turn in a storyline plan for their grade level. This five day programme has been running for a number of ...

Storyline as a stimulus to dialoque (in Norwegian)

Jun

2004

“Knut Åge Teigen, a teacher at Ringstabekk skole, has written an essay on Storyline as a vehicle for tolerance and dialogue. The essay was the written exam for the course in Religion, “Can you learn dialogue?”, at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. The Storyline described and analyzed was called “Rainbow Street”, based on ...

Pupils write about Storyline in 9th grade Norway

Jun

2002

From Knut Aage Teigen, Ringstabekk school, Oslo It was a cold morning in November. The residents of Rainbow Street were in shock. “What had happened during the night in this peaceful street? Who would do such a terrible thing?” On the window of the grocer’s big red painted letters were screaming “Immigrants = Parasites”. In ...