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Courses in Stockholm & Gothenburg

Mar

2007

Very successful Storyline courses have recently been run in Sweden. Mait Adegård, vice principal in Skarpnäcks skolan, organises several courses annually, and her school has become the Storyline centre in Stockholm. Skarpnäcks has a website which shows a selection of photographs from these courses over the past few years. Eva Marsh and Ylva Lundin are ...

New Swedish Brochure for Parents

Jan

2007

Tidningen Skolbarn, the educational publisher, has produced an informative brochure to up-date parents about school developments in Sweden. The articles describe the latest advice on curriculum development, on the use of Portfolio for assessment purposes and on the Storyline approach to integrated learning. The authors, Helena Moreau and Steve Wretman, are deeply involved in offering ...

Storyline Course in Farsta, Stockholm

Jun

2006

25 teachers attended a two day Storyline workshop course held in Farsta Gymnasium on 19th & 20th June 2006. The enthusiastic and artistic participants created a story about a new hotel and the staff necessary to run it. There was much ‘serious fun’ as the story developed and the last period on the Tuesday afternoon ...

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 ...

Workshop Course for School Management Teams in Farsta

Mar

2006

The management teams from 12 schools in the Farsta District of Stockholm spent these two days together on a workshop course exploring the qualities and values involved in providing an exciting, challenging and successful school. The course followed the pattern of a Storyline Topic and was presented by Mait Adegard, a project leader working for ...

Storyline and Sami (Lapp) History

Jun

2005

Norrbottens Museum (Norrbotten is a region in the north of Sweden) working together with Sanna Ranweg, a Storyline teacher, have developed a Storyline on Sami History. Since 2004 schools in Norrbotten have been using Storyline with good results. Teachers in Överkalix, Luleå and Vittangi have worked with Storyline in their classes.

Follow-up to Course in Mötesplats Carlssons Skola

Jun

2005

Helena Sandell teaches English and Swedish in Grade 8 at Fredrikshovs slott skola in Stockholm. She enjoyed the course at Carlssons skola and decided to put the Storyline topic she experienced there into practice immediately. As can be seen from the model made by her grade 8 students they are now in the middle of ...

Storyline Presentation – Lärarhögskolan, Stockholm

Oct

2004

At the invitation of Dr Jesus Piqeras, Steve Bell gave a two hour presentation to an audience of staff and students on Monday 31st October at the College of Education in Stockholm. Hansi Elsbacher, a journalist, took many photographs and has written an account of this event. His report has been posted on the internal ...

Storyline Postgraduate Course | University College of Boras, Sweden

Oct

2004

On October 7th, the first postgraduate course in Storyline started at the University College of Boras, (UCB) Sweden. The course, ‘Storyline – a Constructivist Approach to Learning, 7,5 ECTs’, has attracted 41 participants, a mix of primary school teachers, secondary school teachers and even two upper secondary school teachers. Storyline as a teaching approach has ...

Swedish Visit

Sep

2004

Sanna Ranweg is a freelance Storyline Tutor working in the area around her home town of Lulea in the north of Sweden. She is engaged by the University to give courses for students and is also kept busy with courses for teachers in her region. Her opinion is that Storyline is being adopted more and ...