On Friday, January 30th, I facilitated a storytelling workshop for Year 7-12 students. We delved into Mexican and Haitian folktales that spoke to the themes of beauty, love and courage. We had a lively discussion about the multiple interpretations and meanings a story can reveal, and students spoke about different aspects of the stories that they found significant and moving. By the end of the workshop, the students were telling the stories to each other and discovering their unique voices and ways of telling. They became so engrossed in the stories, they spontaneously starting making up sequels!
 This term I am beginning to teach with The Brilliant Club, an award winning non-profit organisation that places doctoral and post doctoral researchers in non-selective state schools and sixth form colleges serving low participation communities. The Brilliant Club researchers/tutors design and deliver programmes of university style teaching to high performing pupils. A primary aim of The Brilliant Club is to motivate pupils and help them to develop the knowledge, skills and ambition to secure places at top universities. The Brilliant Club works with schools, colleges and universities to address educational disadvantage and widen access to top universities for outstanding pupils. The Brilliant Club researchers/tutors teach pupils from Year 6 through to Year 12 in more than 150 schools and colleges in London, the South East and the Midlands. This term (Spring 2015) I will be teaching a course in Oral History methods to Year 9/10 pupils in East London. |
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