Creative thinking

33 videos

Making a car

Dolf, an EAL learner, has chosen to work outside and alone.

Bilingual education- Making a great start: EYFS

Two EYFS practitioners, one English first language and one Vietnamese first language illustrate their bilingual appro...

Review and reflection

The lesson ends with a review session. Individual and group reflection is followed by feedback and discussion on how ...

Consolidation phase

This clip shows the consolidation phase of the lesson.

Homework task

The teacher outlines the homework task a group task, but with individual aspects.

Ideas taking shape

Groups are now ready to start preparing written bids which need to reflect their reasoning.

Sharing lesson intentions

After recapping the previous lesson, the teacher outlines plans for the current lesson and shares intended learning o...

Forest School Printing

Children visit their own Forest School to choose and collect materials for printing.

Puppet Screen

Following a visit to their Forest School, primary children plan and make puppets using twigs and other natural materi...

Train Ride

As part of their outdoor play, nursery children have helped to construct a train out of cardboard boxes.

The Pirates' Problem

Boys are engaged in role-play in the pirate ship outside the classroom.

Balloon Making

Following the story-starter, children are presented with the challenge of individually inventing and making a device ...

Being Imaginative (but might be called Outdoor ...

Children in this primary school are using an outdoor area close to the school as the stimulus and setting for their p...

Rubber Chicken

This Drama lesson started with video of sixth-formers acting as if young children.

New Forest School

KS2 children are involved in the real tasks of designing and making a new Forest School as the original site is becom...

Planning the Alarm

Learning partners plan their smoke alarm; the teacher helps them to bring together their two ideas.

Smoke Alarm

The teacher introduces the idea of a smoke-alarm, and the designing and making task.

Cooking Pot

Using a very effective cooking pot analogy, the teacher encourages children to devise and make some sort of alarm by ...

Bridge Building

Following a story stimulus, nursery children use a variety of materials to build a bridge which has to be safe enough...

Collaborative Layout

As this PE lesson continues, two pairs of learning partners are bringing together their separate ideas for a routine ...

Layout Design

In this PE lesson, a pair of learning partners are designing the layout for a routine to include a range of apparatus...

Making Pots

A visiting professional potter is working on his wheel with Nursery children.

Light Box

Following a visit to Forest School, children work with a Teaching Assistant at a light-box.

Creative Thinking

A primary school teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) talks about the advantages of sharing a ...

Group Letter

The teacher in this German lesson introduces a collaborative letter-writing activity.

Story-boarding

In this Geography lesson, the teacher introduces a story-boarding activity.

Script Development

Four girls are reading through and annotating their script before performing it.

Decision-making

The teacher outlines a French lesson in which children revisit their first year's work by putting together (and later...

Releasing the Butterflies Commentary

Practitioner Emma reflects on the clip "releasing the Butterflies.'

Talking About Fractions

Problem solving related to thirds and sixths.

Juilliard: Introducing the collaboration

Juilliard's Curriculum Specialists are both professional musicians and educators and can introduce engagement, creati...

Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classr...

Working in small groups with a Juilliard Curriculum Specialist, we see how an original spin can be layered on 'Myster...

Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classr...

A teacher and Juilliard Curriculum Specialist team teach a class encouraging them to think as composers.