Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, a new Mantle of the Expert training project is starting in the Autumn of 2019 on the Welsh Borders. Involving nine schools – five in England, four in Wales – the project is organised by Helen Chapman, a graduate of the NEU Mantle of the Expert training programme. The project will run for two years and consist of three training weekends and a series of in-school demo lessons, taught by Luke Abbott and Tim Taylor. The eighteen teachers on the project will engage in a form of action research, teaching Mantle of the Expert regularly in their classrooms, reflecting on their practice, and discussing their progress with a preassigned mentor. Paul Hamlyn is also funding an evaluation of the project by a university placed researcher, with a report commissioned for summer 2022. For more information on this project please contact Helen Chapman at Morda Primary School, Shropshire.
- Click on this link to read: Notes from Weekend 1
Course Reading List
Timescale | Author | Title | Media | Form | Level |
1st Term | T. Taylor | Introductory chapter to A Beginner’s Guide to Mantle of the Expert | Extract | Required reading | Introduction |
L. Abbott | Mantle of the Expert’ as a Route to Irresistible Learning and Transformative Teaching.Forum Vol 59 No 3, 2017 pp 423-431 | Article | Required reading | Introduction | |
T. Taylor | A Beginner’s Guide to Mantle of the Expert | Book | Required reading | Foundation | |
D. Heathcote | The Authentic Teacher and the Future | Article | Required reading | Foundation | |
C. O’Neill | Foreword to Drama for Learning | Extract | Required reading | Foundation | |
C. Lawrence | Teacher and Role – A drama teaching partnership | Article | Required reading | Core | |
Morgan & Saxton | Asking Better Questions | Book | Required reading | Core | |
L. Abbott | The Dramatic Imagination | Article | Required reading | Core | |
G. Bolton | Situation Vs Story | Extract | Required reading | Core | |
B. Edmiston | What’s My Position? | Article | Required reading | Core | |
V. Aitken | Dorothy Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert Approach | Extract | Required reading | Core | |
T. Taylor | Some background on Mantle of the Expert | Blog | Suggested reading | Foundation | |
T. Taylor | A Brief Introduction to Mantle of the Expert | Blog | Suggested reading | Foundation | |
T. Taylor | Drama for Learning and Mantle of the Expert | Blog | Suggested reading | Foundation | |
H. Roberts | Oops! Helping children learn accidentally | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
2nd Term | D. Heathcote | Active Learning – Four Models | Article | Required reading | Core |
T. Taylor | Using dramatic imagination to develop writing | Blog | Required reading | Core | |
T. Taylor | The Problem with Praise | Blog | Required reading | Core | |
J. Fines | Imagination in History Teaching | Article | Required reading | Core | |
Morgan & Saxton | Teaching Drama: A Mind of Many Wonders | Book | Suggested reading | Core | |
Fines & Verrier | The Drama of History | Book | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
A. Kohn | Punished by Rewards | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
D. Willingham | Why Don’t Students Like School | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
T. Taylor | Preparing the Ground for Planting Knowledge | Blog | Suggested reading | Core | |
T. Taylor | The Three Modes of Teaching | Blog | Suggested reading | Core | |
L. Abbott | The Dramas of History | Article | Suggested reading | Core | |
L. Abbott | Learning Lessons from Children | Article | Suggested reading | Core | |
Abbott & Edmiston | Contexts Between Play, Drama, and Learning | Article | Suggested reading | Core | |
Abbott & Edmiston | Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Classroom | Article | Suggested reading | Core | |
G. Bolton | Dorothy Heathcote’s Story: Biography | Book | Suggested reading | Core | |
3rd Term | C. O’Neill | Dorothy Heathcote on Education and Drama | Book | Suggested reading | Advanced |
Bolton & Heathcote | Drama for Learning | Book | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
K. Egan | Teaching as Story Telling | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
K. Egan | The cognitive tools of children’s imagination | Article | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
J. Harste | What Education as Inquiry is and isn’t | Article | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
D. Kidd | Assessment as an Act of Love | Article | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
A. Kohn | Unconditional Teaching | Article | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
T. Taylor | Why telling the truth is better for learning | Blog | Suggested reading | Core | |
T. Taylor | The Divisions of Culture | Blog | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
T. Taylor | Make-believe is not the same as lying | Blog | Suggested reading | Core | |
T. Taylor | Creating bridges into the past | Blog | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
T. Taylor | Making learning urgent and important | Blog | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
T. Taylor | Teaching Using The Circle of Progression | Blog | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
B. Wagner | Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium | Book | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
O’Neill & Lambert | Drama Structures – A Practical Handbook for Teachers | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
Bowell & Heap | Planning Process Drama: Enriching teaching and learning | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
G. Bolton | Gavin Bolton: The Essential Writings | Book | Suggested reading | Wider view | |
L. Abbott | Four Projections of Role | Thesis | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
T. Kowsan | The Sign in the Theatre | Article | Suggested reading | Advanced | |
L. Abbott | Drama is Life | Article | Required reading | Advanced |