For more than 50 years teachers have been watching Dorothy Heathcote at work trying to emulate her way with drama in the classroom. This important film documents her life and work featuring film from the Newcastle University archive and interviews with teachers influenced by her legacy.

Dorothy Heathcote teaches a series of six two hour lessons to a group of 11 & 12 year old pupils from Camps Bay Primary School. She demonstrates how to use the pupil’s ideas and then structure a meaningful learning experience for them.

These films, made by BBC North East, during the 1980′s are a very early example of mantle of the expert. They show Dorothy Heathcote working with a class of children from Burgess Junior School running a shoe factory.

This keynote was recorded in preparation for the first international mantle of the expert conference at Waikato University, Hamilton New Zealand, August 27-30, 2009.

This film was made by the children of Surlingham Primary School, Norfolk, UK in the summer of 2008. It took approximately 14 weeks. The children wrote the story, designed the sets and did much of the filming.

The famous BBC Omnibus documentary, Three Looms Waiting about the work of Dorothy Heathcote, made by Ron Smedley in 1971.

Duncan Bathgate, HT at Bealings School, Suffolk, describes how to set up a Mantle of the Expert inquiry.

Teacher’s at Bealings explain how they plan and record a Mantle of the Expert inquiry.

A documentary about how Bealings School in Suffolk use Mantle of the Expert.

Children at Tuckswood School, Norwich in 2007, using mantle of the expert to explore the life of Admiral Lord Nelson.