Downloadable Articles
Articles written by Independent Thinking Associates and others over the past few years
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Building your Curriculum: Outside and In
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Building your Curriculum: Outside and In supports a strategic approach to the development of outdoor learning and provides a framework and process for collaborative planning and review.
As an active and productive pedagogy, outdoor learning is an
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Outdoor Learning: Practical guidance, ideas and support for teachers and practitioners in Scotland
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This resource provides practical, accessible and straightforward advice on how to engage children and young people with learning outdoors. It incorporates ideas for organising learning in the outdoors, for making connections across the curriculum and
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What Teachers can Learn from Coronation Street
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Fifty years ago Granada Television launched a new television show scheduled to be given a thirteen-week run. Since that time Coronation Street has gone from strength to strength. The only time it has failed to secure a minimum of ten million viewers
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The True Power of Literacy
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I was in a year two classroom a few weeks ago watching a lesson that was starting to fall flat. The teacher was working from a big book and asked the question, “Now who else can find a sentence which includes direct speech in Cinderella?” To which on
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Some People Get Lost in Thought because it is Unfamiliar Territory
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Overheard in the Classroom...
Teacher: What are you doing… You’re not paying attention.
Pupil: Please Sir I am thinking.
Teacher: Well don’t think in my lesson
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We won't all grow up to be Entrepreneurs but we all need to be Enterprising
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What is it that inspirational teachers do? In short, they plan for their pupils to be inspirational
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So, You Want to Build a New School?
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A ten-point plan on how to get BSF right from a school that has done it - and done it under budget, ahead of schedule and achieved their best ever GCSE results in the middle of it.
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I’m a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!
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Sticks are not a commonly used resource in most schools. Images of children getting hurt through being poked in the eye run rife through the heads of many teachers.
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PLTS Assessment
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What happens when you cross the PLTS approach to helping children learn with Assessment for Learning and throw in a little Lazy Teaching for good measure?
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