Conferences
These are national conferences on Professor Dorothy Heathcote’s dramatic-based system for learning for all teachers, headteachers and others interested in innovative approaches to learning.
NATD Conference: Social and Cultural Learning Through Drama – Sept 2013
National Association for the Teaching of Drama
Social and Cultural Learning Through Drama – Teaching for progress in the child-centred classroom
A conference for teachers of all phases, lecturers, leaders, artists, dramatists and community educators
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th September at Oriel College, Oxford
$500 available to help teachers attend Drama NZ conference
Drama NZ is offering two $500 scholarships to support teachers to attend their conference this year. One scholarship is for a beginning teacher, the other is for a teacher from a rural school.
Te Kore – Drama NZ’s national conference for 2013 will be held at Waikato University 26-28 April. The conference suits primary, intermediate and secondary teachers and a number of presentations and workshops will be specifically devoted to Mantle of the Expert.
Conference-Drama and English: Exploring the Connections
London Association for the Teaching of English
Saturday 9th February 2013, 9.30 – 1.30
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
There has been a long history of teachers using drama to support learning in English. Considering recent moves threatening the place of drama in and across the curriculum, we think it important to affirm the centrality of drama to English teaching. This conference will offer practical approaches for teaching that explore and develop the connections between English and drama.
Bond@50 celebration
This festival, on 2nd and 3rd November, includes performances of two new Edward Bond plays, The Broken Bowl and The Edge, as well as Tune by L’Outil Compagnie from France, film screenings of Blow Up and Walkabout, plus an open rehearsal and talk by the playwright himself and a talk by Shami Chakrabati from Liberty.
Picking up the Pieces – Conference
Picking up the Pieces will be the task of the next government – putting together the pieces of a fragmented education system, creating a curriculum and examination system relevant to the 21st century information age and putting equal opportunities back at the centre of policy. This conference will consider the practical agenda of the next government.
‘Dare we change what we have always done?’ Conference
NATD National Conference 2012
“Imaginative Teaching- Outstanding Learningâ€
A conference for teachers, lecturers, leaders, artists, dramatists and community educators.
Friday 28th – Sunday 30th September at Oriel College, Oxford
Mantle of the Expert: Third Conference in Wales
Parkway Hotel, Cwmbran 13th September 2012 – Following the tremendous success of two MoE conferences in Abergavenny, this will be a further opportunity for students, teachers and teacher trainers to benefit from this invaluable training opportunity.
Dorothy Heathcote’s Legacy – special two-day event
Saturday / Sunday June 16 – 17th, 2012 9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. West Midlands Mantle of the Expert Network presents – DOROTHY HEATHCOTE’S LEGACY: A special two-day event, involving a range of practitioners who will demonstrate the continuing influence of Dorothy Heathcote’s work in their current practice and thinking.
Drama Conference: The Power of Make Believe
Redbridge Drama Centre Weds 13th June 2012 – In the new era of curriculum innovations it is clear the new standards will focus on the motivation and engagement of learners in the care of gifted teachers.
This one-day conference run by nationally recognised practitioners will offer a range of practical workshops and key-note speeches which will take a ʻfresh lookʼ at current trends, long-established skills and offer teachers a range of exciting teaching methods and materials.