Teaching Practices
I've just spent two days building with Lego. Climate Play uses LEGO Serious Play methodology, a facilitated process where you think with your hands, build metaphorical models, and tell the story of what you've made.
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LJMU's Curriculum Enhancement Internships scheme is funding four student interns to spend six months mapping joy in teaching.
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A teaching practice using film and TV to explore how workplace diversity is represented across time.
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Students discover priorities through physical objects, then use assessment tools and group work to build ethical decision-making skills.
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Spend the entire session outdoors helping students develop genuine connection to the environment. This practice grounds students in place to understand why sustainability matters through felt experience rather than abstract concepts.
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Using magazine images and collaborative collaging to explore complex concepts through visual thinking. Reveals insights that analytical writing might miss, allowing students to hold complexity without immediate resolution. Works for any subject.
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Deliberately shift classroom power by giving students real authority over learning. Four methods for redistributing traditional teaching authority while maintaining goals. Students experience having their knowledge valued as legitimate.
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Simple creative practice for any classroom: students choose an image, create a story, share insights. Surfaces existing knowledge through collaborative storytelling. No wrong answers, any subject.
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Replace your usual session opening with a "what if" question tied to your topic. This is a fundamental reframing of the learning relationship. You're positioning students as capable of imagining alternatives rather than passive recipients of existing knowledge.