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The Story of a School

Sep

2010

Ox Close Primary School, Spennymoor, Durham “Spennymoor Ox” was a community celebration of the history and contemporary use of Ox Close Community Garden adjacent to the primary school. It was designed to offer a lyrical evocation of the relatively recent but easily forgotten past and provide a permanent link to it. The Grand Opening took ...

Storyline in Ohio, USA

Jun

2010

Sallie Harkness, Storyline Scotland and Jeff Creswell of Storyline Design are busily engaged in presenting a two-day Storyline course to the Teachers in Hathaway Brown School in Ohio. Teachers there have been experimenting with the approach for some time and their interest in this pedagogy is demonstrated by the most attractive booklet which they have ...

MEd Children’s Literature & Literacies

Apr

2010

This exciting new programme, the first of its kind in Scotland, offers students the opportunity to consider the central concerns of the field of children’s literature and literacy teaching in the light of new perspectives and offers the chance to deepen expertise in specialist areas. It affords course members the opportunity to take a literary ...

Association for Development of Early Childhood Education in Turkey

Mar

2010

Spring Conference, Ankara University Prof. Dr. Gelengül Haktanır, Executive Committee Chair of the above association had come into contact with Storyline through the interest of her PhD student Sule Tepetas. While an Erasmus scholar working in teaching practice in Halmstad, Sweden, Sule had observed Storyline in action. She was attracted to the approach and decided ...

First Storyline Conference in Turkey

Mar

2010

Steve Bell Avrupa College in Istanbul is a large and prestigious private educational institute linked to Kent State University in USA. Serkan Guney, Director of Curriculum Development in the College had spent some years in Denmark both as a child and as a student teacher and had thus come into contact with the Storyline Approach. ...

The Scottish Parliament – A Storyline

Feb

2010

Samantha Todd, 3rd Year B.Ed student Moray House, Faculty of Education, Edinburgh University Working in Roseburn Primary School, Edinburgh This Storyline was designed as a study of the Scottish Parliament. The plan was that the pupils would use their existing knowledge of the parliamentary system and learn more within a structured role-play activity. They would ...

Village Storyline

Feb

2010

Fiona Kilpatrick Wallacestone Primary School in Falkirk Council District More Information >

Doctorate Success for Rhonda

Jan

2010

Congratulations Rhonda Mitchell-Barrett who will receive her doctorate in January Her thesis was based on an analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation. This study explored the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation when engaged in a Storyline ...

Visit of students from Oslo University College

Oct

2009

Sigurd Bergflødt Nearly seventy students with teachers from Oslo University College met Steve Bell and Sallie Harkness at the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow on Tuesday 6th October 2009. This was the fourth year in a row that we got our annual introduction to the Storyline method. The previous years we`ve had an introductory course ...

Storyline at a Distance

Oct

2009

Todd Stewart-Rinier One of the most valuable components of Storyline is collaboration. The social skills that develop through working and problem solving with others in a Storyline are exactly the kinds of collaborative skills that are necessary in larger arenas. Increasingly the problems we face are such that they require collaborative solutions: within communities, between ...