This Autumn Engaging Places will be running two special half-day CPD workshops for teachers in London. The workshops will be free, and will be run in conjunction with the Discover Greenwich exhibition, Unforgettable Lessons. Through best practice examples and practical activities, attendees will learn how to get the most out of using buildings and places to teach the curriculum.
Open spaces to inspire learners © Adnan Yahya, flickr.com
Workshops details
Dates and times: TBC
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
The world around us is a free teaching tool, which can engage young people in school lessons, by showing how learning in the classroom relates to real life. Using buildings and places to teach the curriculum can inspire and motivate students across a variety of subjects and curriculum areas. This approach to learning also allows engagement of young people in cultural activity through subject lessons.
The workshops will illustrate through best practice examples and practical activity how your local area can be used to teach any subject and every age; and how schools and cultural learning providers, such as local museums, working together can best enhance teaching and learning. You will also be guided through the many free built environment education resources and lesson plans available.
To register you interest in attending this half day workshop, email engagingplaces@cabe.org.uk and place CPD in the subject line.
Unforgettable Lessons is showing at Discover Greenwich from 12 July to 31 August 2010. The exhibition takes you on the journey of 12 groups of young people across England who have been thinking about their local area - how it has developed, how people have shaped their place and how the place has shaped them. All the projects have been developed by teachers in partnership with local cultural learning providers.
