The popular Storyline 1 class was held once again in Park Rose High School. This year’s topic was ‘Farmers’ Market’ and the teachers began by listing the stalls they thought would make a good market. Pairs signed up for the stall of their choice and began to create it using a shoe box and various junk materials. Stall holders were made in the form of ‘little people’. Following an episode considering a variety of tasks for the stall holders the teachers created customers and then suggested a series of incidents likely to happen at their ‘Busy Bee’ Market. The first part of the course is very practical as the teachers experience a Storyline example. Later in the week they are required to reflect on this experience, to undertake a curriculum analysis and listen to practitioners describe their classes’ Storyline experience. After that participants work in small groups to plan a Storyline for their own classes. Attendance at both these classes along with successful submission of the required paperwork will bring credit from Portland State University.
