Creative Teaching and Learning

Extending Horizons

For all teachers and school leaders interested in developing a creative primary and secondary curriculum.
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.


Kieran Egan Workshop

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