The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom. Issue 4 (24th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elliott, Jenny; Southern, Alex
• Is Part Of: Curriculum journal. Volume 32:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 667
• Page End: 687
• Publication Date: 2021-06-24
• Subjects: accountability -- continuing professional development -- counter‐culture -- creativity -- formative assessment -- literacy -- pedagogy -- teachers; Education -- Curricula -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Curriculum planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 375.00941
• DOI: 10.1002/curj.112
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0958-5176

Abstract

Abstract: This paper outlines the processes of creating a 'Storymaker Wheel', a creativity evaluation tool conceptualised with input from a children's book author, a children's book illustrator, academics and teachers, for teachers and pupils to use to support and develop their creative writing. It documents the ways in which teachers and pupils engaged with the Wheel in three schools in England: a primary pupil referral unit, a primary school and a secondary school. Interviews with teachers and pupils about the Storymaker Wheel, and classroom observations of the Wheel in use, expose some challenges of teaching creative writing within the current English educational context, which we discuss.