Creative Central

Date: Monday 19 July
Times: Workshop A 09.30 – 12.30, Workshop B 13.30 – 16.30
Location: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton,
WV1 1DU

Free half day CPD workshops for teachers and other education providers.
In conjunction with the Wolverhampton Art Gallery exhibition Unforgettable lessons, learn how to get the most out of using buildings and places to teach the curriculum.

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 get students interested in subjects again, improving behaviour and raising achievement. 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 working with cultural learning providers, such as local museums, can best enhance teaching and learning. You will also be guided through the many free built environment education resources and lesson plans available.

Contact – Fiona Waddle for a signup form at fiona.waddle@uvns.org

Unforgettable lessons is showing from 10 July to 14 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. To find out more about the projects visit www.engagingplaces.org.uk/network

Engaging Places is a joint education programme delivered by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in partnership with English Heritage, to encourage the use of buildings and places in teaching and learning.