These resources and links are connected to the PGCE student’s curriculum innovation conference at the University of Newcastle, February 8th & 9th, 2010.
Presentation from the opening lecture – “Planning teaching and learning using Inquiry, Imaginitve Inquiry and Dramatic Inquiry”

This interview was with a group of Year 3 children from Tuckswood First School, Norwich in 2005. The children talk about the learning events of the year that have had the most impact on them and why they think drama is so important.

Please find attached details of an introduction to mantle of the expert training weekend at Brathay Hall, Ambleside from Friday 5th March to Sunday 7th, 2010.
Led by Luke Abbott and Tim Taylor the course will be suitable for both beginners and those who have already started to use the approach.

Partnership Deputy Head Teacher for the Rockland St Mary and Surlingham School Partnership, Norfolk
Salary: L2-L6
Required for the beginning of the summer term 2010.

The Suffolk Mantle of the Expert Forum for 2010 will start with an introductory day at Ufford Park, near Woodbridge, with Julia Walshaw on Tuesday 9th March. The package of training will also include INSET days with Luke Abbott, in-school lesson observations and a visit to Bealings School. The Forum is open to any schools in Suffolk.

Dorothy Heathcote teaches a series of six two hour lessons to a group of 11 & 12 year old pupils from Camps Bay Primary School. She demonstrates how to use the pupil’s ideas and then structure a meaningful learning experience for them.

We have started the process of digitising the Heathcote Archive housed at Manchester Metropolitan University. The archive is a collection of papers, books and resources collected by Dorothy Heathcote during her long career as a teacher and academic at Newcastle University. It includes many articles written by Heathcote and her students, as well as academic dissertations for MED, M-PHIL and PHD. There is also a large library of video material.
Some of the papers are notes written by Heathcote from the very earliest days of the development of mantle of the expert. Although some of these are now in less than perfect condition they will be of great interest to students of Prof. Heathcote and her mantle of the expert approach.
As a beginning we have digitised and uploaded 28 papers.

conventions-notesThe first weekend of the mantle of the expert advanced course was held at Ringsfield Hall on December 11th-13th, 2009
The following are links to books and resources used and refered to during the course:
Peter Brook – The Empty Space
Jerzy Grotowski – Towards a Poor Theatre
Ruth Beall Heinig – Improvisation with Favorite Tales
Jerome Bruner – Toward [...]

These films, made by BBC North East, during the 1980’s are a very early example of mantle of the expert. They show Dorothy Heathcote working with a class of children from Burgess Junior School running a shoe factory.

This project in Kent involves 22 schools from the north of the county. It runs from November 18th, 2009 until June 16th, 2010.

The Project timetable contains:

An Induction Day – November 18th, 2009
Demo Day 1. An in-school demonstration and seminar day for each network during the week of March 9-12, 2010
Training Day – March 16th, 2010
Demo Day 2. The second in-school demonstration and seminar day during the week of April 20 – 23, 2010
Demo Day 3. The third in-school demonstration and seminar day during the week of June 8 – 11, 2010
Project End and Dissemination Day – June 15th, 2010