Comenius ← Storyline Scotland

How We Became Part of the Story

Jul

2015

We happened to learn about Storyline as an approach to teaching at a Comenius conference in November 2012. Thus knowing of the possibility to apply for an Erasmus+ grant we did so. Since our school is focusing on teaching heterogeneous classes including children with special needs who need assistance this method seemed to be the ...

International COMENIUS Summer course

Aug

2012

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 a 10 day Storyline course in Glasgow. Run by the two storyliners Gisela Ehlers and Hannelore Tait from the Teacher Training Institute IQSH in Schleswig-Holstein ...

Storyline in Practice in Different Countries

Sep

2011

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 ...

Sunshine Tours

Aug

2010

The Comenius Summer Course in Glasgow Using Storyline for Teaching ESL Inga Riedel During the first week in August, a group of international primary teachers met in Strathclyde University, Glasgow, to find out more about the Storyline approach and its use in teaching English as a Second Language. In this special environment, we created the ...

Storyline Approach in the Foreign Language Classroom

Jul

2009

Report COMENIUS Summer course 2009

“A Classroom with Six Languages”

Oct

2008

Comenius Project creates Storyline for pupils of special schools from six European countries Schule am Meer in North Germany’s Cuxhaven was the venue for the latest gathering of the Comenius funded “Stars Project”. From 22-26.October 2008 the group, involving schools from Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Hungary, Estonia and Ireland met for the 5th time, although it ...

Staff Development Course in a German Special School

Jan

2007

The Schule am Schillerzentrum in Cuxhaven is a special school for mentally handicapped children. Participating in a Comenius project some teachers had been invited to Denmark a few months ago. There they got to know the Storyline approach and became immediately enthusiastic. So they wanted to know more about this way of teaching and learning. On the ...

Creative Dialogues – second language teaching

Jun

2005

The fourth transnational meeting of a Comenius Project entitled Creative Dialogues was held in the Buchanan Arms Hotel, Drymen, Scotland, from 20th to 24th April 2005. This group is engaged in developing Storylines for use in the second language teaching of English and German. The partners of the project Gisela Ehlers (Coordinator), IQSH, Kiel, Germany; ...

Comenius Project

Jun

2002

Kumi Tømmerbakke, a Primary 7 class teacher in Løkeberg school in Haslum, Norway, has recently reported a very interesting visit made to Gloucester Primary School in Peckham, London, as part of a Comenius project. A school in Italy, “A. Gandiglio” situated in Fano, completes the group of three schools connected to this project for a ...