Big ideas for small people.
In this series of Key Stage 1 lessons, Paul Newbould from Minchinnhampton School, uses big thinking techniques, including his philosophy-for-children methods, to enable Year 1 pupils think deeply in an RE context. He exploits both AT1 and the often under used potential of AT2 of the National Framewo...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2005.
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| Series: | Education in video
KS1/2 RE ; 1 KS1/2 RE ; 2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In this series of Key Stage 1 lessons, Paul Newbould from Minchinnhampton School, uses big thinking techniques, including his philosophy-for-children methods, to enable Year 1 pupils think deeply in an RE context. He exploits both AT1 and the often under used potential of AT2 of the National Framework (Learning from Religion), by enabling and making room for children to express their own ideas and beliefs. Through a series of talk-based activities, including role-play, think-pair-share and thinking books, pupils are encouraged to reflect on the big, philosophical/theological questions of right & wrong and the nature of God. In addition, the activities are designed to help them develop and use an extended vocabulary. Without the barriers that writing activities present to this age group, pupils can reflect on free-floating questions of wonderment. The lesson's ultimate aim is to get the pupils to reflect on what they think is their biggest question of all. This discussion programme looks at how primary teachers can best plan, manage and assess RE learning which promotes the asking of big or puzzling questions. Following a viewing of the Big Ideas for Small People lesson, the panel of practictioners and experts review key issues such as the balance between AT1 & AT2, the use of stories in RE, techniques to open up pupils thinking, the use of vocabulary and the need to distance pupils from any one particular religion and its hidden assumptions. The panel features Will Ord, a leading Philosophy-for-Children trainer, Julie Grove, former head of the Association for Religious Education Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants (AREIAC), Paul Newbould, the teacher of the Big Ideas lesson and Kym Porter, another primary school teacher who helped develop the lesson. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (28 min.). |