In association with NUT CPD
Friday 6 November 2009, 10am to 4pm
Extending Horizons – Using creativity
and critical thinking to enrich teaching
and learning
For all teachers and school leaders interested in developing a creative primary and secondary curriculum.
Major Conference with
Professor Robin Alexander
A New Approach To The Primary Curriculum
Robin Alexander will be addressing some of the key issues to emerge from the long-awaited final report of the Cambridge Primary Review.
Professor Kieran Egan
Putting Imagination Back into Classrooms
Kieran Egan specialises in curriculum theory and which address linking child development to a more imaginative approach to curriculum design.
Chris Watkins of the Institute of Education
Letting go of the reins: a new paradigm for teaching
A leading UK education theorist and teacher-trainer on Cooperative and Learner-Driven Learning.
Date: Friday 6 November 2009, 10am to 4pm
Venue: Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD
(10 minutes walk from Euston, Kings Cross & St. Pancras stations)
Conference Workshops
These will look in depth on how key aspects of the curriculum can be reshaped with independent learning skills, creativity and critical thinking at their centre.
- Plus Tony Hurlin: Intelligent Learning: using art and images to develop higher order thinking skills
- Sue Lyle: How stories and narrative can be used to support Philosophy for Children and Mantle of The Expert techniques in the classroom
- Nina Jackson: Teaching to promote creativity
- Mike Lake: How poor readers can be helped by Reading With Imagination.
- Matthew Milburn: Transforming a secondary school curriculum through drama.