Storyline method

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This is about a teaching method. For other meanings, see Storyline.

The Storyline method (Storyline) for teaching children (mainly) at primary school was developed by the staff of the inservice department of the Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow, now University of Strathclyde. Storyline focuses on the pupils' activities. By creating models and other meaningful representations of reality the pupils actively discover how things work and start learning in a self-sufficient way. Pioneers of the approach back in the 1970s were staff tutors Steve Bell, Sallie Harkness and Fred Rendell. The approach is widely used in the Scandinavian countries and in the Netherlands.