Uncategorized – Steven Berryman

Impact – Professional Development

Issue 13 of the Chartered College of Teaching journal Impact was pleasing to receive. I've gathered every issue so far (joined the College at the beginning) and the issues get…

Creativity: emotions and healing

26 Apr 202026 Apr 2020

'Luce found a path to healthy by investing energy into a creative project', writes Marie Forgeard in her chapter in the The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. She opens her chapter…

Coaching Redefined

5 Oct 20195 Oct 2019

I'm so grateful to Sherry St. Clair for sending a copy of her new book, Coaching Redefined. She charts her journey towards a new paradigm of coaching in the first…

Appreciating the deeply unsatisfactory

30 Jul 201931 Jul 2019

'Most pupils end up as artistic illiterates' and 'arts education ... cannot produce creative pupils in the proper sense of the term'. What is the proper sense of the term…

My professional body

30 Jul 201930 Jul 2019

I never imagined I would complete fifteen years of teaching. I never imagined I would do fifteen years of anything and when I was half-way through my MMus I was…

The meaning of curriculum process

29 Jul 20193 Aug 2019

Whilst the kitchen is being removed from my home (and a new one is gradually installed) I started to notice some of the books I had forgotten I had. Dennis…

Developing composing through talk

Developing composing through talk: Does the use of a ‘composing talk tally’ in the KS3 Music classroom improve the quality of creative response? Below is my research project I submitted…

Creating Significant Learning Experiences

After an enjoyable year of professional development (that included the RSA Evidence Champions Network, Chartered College of Teaching Chartered Teacher Programme and the King's Academy Learning and Teaching Programme) I…

Should we question our beliefs in the arts?

The ‘transformative power’ of the arts: History of an idea by Eleanora Belfiore is an interesting read in The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning. Belfiore highlights the claims many…

Making time for music

We can find a justification for music as an important part of human development right back to Plato. In the Middle Ages, music continued to be seen as a tool…