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Danish Members of Parliament Visit Scotland

Aug

2008

Committee of Education Study Visit 13 members of the Danish Education Committee visited Scotland this week from 26th to 29th August to find out more about the new Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and also about Storyline. On Wednesday 27th August at LTS headquarters in Glasgow they had a presentation from members of the Learning & ...

“Stepping Out of the Picture”

Jul

2008

Marie Jeanne McNaughton shows how the Storyline approach may give Drama practitioners an added dimension to their work. This article is based on her paper published in Storyline – Past, Present & Future ed. By Bell, Harkness & White and published by Strathclyde University. Also contained in this edition of the journal is a very ...

American Visitor

May

2008

Wendy Emo, an Academic Advisor/Instructor in the College of General Studies of South Dakota State University recently met with Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell for an informal Storyline seminar in Glasgow. Wendy is a doctoral student working at distance with the University of York in England. At the end of a study visit there to ...

Creative Teaching with Storyline Scotland

Feb

2008

Joanna Bremner Smith On 18th February 2008 the Scottish Storytelling Centre welcomed Steve Bell and Sallie Harkness of Storyline Scotland to a day-long education event exploring Creative Teaching and how storytelling skills can help bring to life the Curriculum for Excellence. The event brought together 30 teachers, storytellers and community workers from across Scotland to ...

The Storyline Journey Begins

Feb

2008

Kinnaird Primary School The opening of a brand new school has provided a rare opportunity for the staff of Kinnaird Primary School to make fundamental decisions about what they want to teach and how they want to teach it. They believe that ‘Storyline’ will be extremely useful in helping them implement the major curricular change ...

Visit of Student Teachers from The Faroe Islands

Feb

2008

Carol Omand, Headteacher, Gartconner Primary School, Kirkintilloch Everyone at Gartconner Primary School was delighted to welcome Sonja Jacobsen and Oda Friduflotum, two student teachers from the Faroe Islands who travelled to Scotland to spend the month of January at the school to study the Storyline approach. Headteacher, Carol Omand said that it was such a ...

Storyline – Past, Present & Future

Jan

2008

Our new book is HERE! Published by Strathclyde University Apart from the introductory chapters this book contains papers presented at the Third International Storyline Conference held in Glasgow in late October 2006. Academic texts and articles on the implementation of Storyline are reasonably extensive in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany and the United States but the ...

Storyline Courses in Thailand

Jan

2008

Sallie Harkness & Steve Bell At the invitation of Mr Noppadon Hor-thong, Director of The Institute for Resource in Education Development, Sallie Harkness & Steve Bell were invited to present three two-day Storyline Workshop courses in different centres in Thailand. We extend our sincere thanks to him for providing us with this marvellous opportunity. It ...

Norwegian Visit

Oct

2007

One hundred Norwegian student teachers met Steve Bell and Sallie Harkness at the Pearce Institute in Govan. Lecturer Marit Storhaug and her colleagues from Oslo University College were visiting Glasgow together with their students for the third time. In the Lithgow Theatre at the Institute, Steve and Sallie gave their introductions to the Storyline approach. ...

Storyline Reunion

Aug

2007

Sallie Harkness joined Jeff Creswell of Storyline Design, Portland, Oregon to teach a Storyline Reunion course on Book-based Storylines. Teachers attending this three day course were all experienced Storyliners who came with an exciting selection of books. In addition to sharing information about the Storyline work completed. In 2006/7 participants had time to work together on ...