STORYRICH AT SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE

Creative Skills for narrative teaching and learning

The Scottish Storytelling Forum has been awarded £27,500 from the Scottish Arts Council through Learn, its education development fund, for a new national programme to resource and support probationer teachers and early-in-post teachers in their professional development. STORYRICH makes available 100 workshops to all local authorities in Scotland, plus tailor made resources and follow-up mentoring from the professional storytellers leading the workshops.

For a decade the Scottish Storytelling Centre has been developing a consistent contribution to educational practice in Scotland and is now a recognised CPD provider working with ITE colleges and local authorities across Scotland. The STORYRICH training, for probationers and teachers of Primary 1 to 7 classes and early Secondary, is available from August 2009.

The workshops will focus on personal narrative skills as applied in the classroom setting grounded in Storymaking and storyline approaches, and will be placed in a clear framework of curriculum thinking, supporting and enhancing the aims of the Curriculum for Excellence. Taster sessions for student teachers are also being rolled out at ITE colleges across Scotland.

For more information contact Linda Bandelier by e-mail linda@scottishstorytellingcentre.com