COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECT
We support a network of teaching professionals throughout the European Union to promote inclusive education. We develop and disseminate accessible talk-for-learning activities in all subject areas and for all ages.
Project Director: Stuart Scott, 17 Barford Street, Islington, LONDON N1 OQB UK
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7226 8885 Fax on request only.
email stuart.scott@collaborativelearning.org
Website home page: http://www.collaborativelearning.org
Supporting a cooperative network of teaching professionals throughout the European Union to support inclusive education and develop and disseminate accessible teaching materials in all subject areas and for all ages.
The Collaborative Learning Project was established in London in 1983 and supported by the Inner London Education Authority until 1988. It was closely linked to the development of the Partnership Teaching Project in 1990. It grew alongside the creative work in London schools that led to the LINC and ORACY projects and when both these projects were closed down remained one of the few sources of talk-for-learning activities. During the mid nineties it worked with local authorities to develop resources. These resources are still being used in schools and are now increasingly available on our website. The project is now a non-profit making educational trust: a support for a network of teachers working with children at all ages and in every subject area. The main objective is to promote inclusive education for all. The project particularly concerns itself with the inclusion of minority ethnic, and other disadvantaged children and those with special needs. It addresses issues of curriculum access, the development of interactive, cognitively demanding and motivating activities and the matching of learning to the needs and abilities of all children. It has always remained focussed on classroom practice supported by sound theory. We have always aimed to develop, disseminate and celebrate effective group work cooperatively; by making available classroom activities which can be adapted to your own classroom needs, and which we hope will inspire you to use the underlying strategies for other topics or different age groups. We are primarily disseminators of process rather than resources.
The project runs workshops all over the UK to develop new materials, and we publish an online newsletter "Paperclip" designed to inspire teachers to begin to try out these activities. We are linked to local networks throughout Europe and beyond. We believe that you need to develop your own activities in order to confidently use those developed by others. We also believe that planning with others is more creative, and consequently we hope you will network activities locally. Please send any activities you have developed back to the project or any links to activities you have put online.
Currently the project has no administrative staff, but please contact us by email or leave a message on our answerphone.