Hywel Roberts

Teacher, Writer and Storyteller based in the UK

Workshop Information:

The session will offer teachers enactive approaches to support participation from everyone, moving students from engagement to investment in their learning.

Drawing on aspects from his bestselling book 'Botheredness: stories, stance and pedagogy',  Hywel will explore the following:

• Storytelling and learning: the research into how stories engage and motivate learners

• Embracing enactive practice through Drama pedagogy to aid understanding across the curriculum

• Encouraging great oracy across the curriculum spectrum and with a focus in this session on 'The Forest'.

• Moving children from engagement to investment in learning through emotional hooks

• Tools to build towards transformational practice

• Hywel will model a lesson with colleagues whilst also demonstrating strategies and techniques that can be applied straight away.

Hywel will provide links to research around oracy, storytelling, and emotional learning.

Session Outcomes: 

1. Colleagues will leave with a refreshed view of familiar curriculum material

2. New strategies that will significantly enhance imaginative practice

Biograhpy

Hywel is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is recognised as an in-demand speaker, writer, humourist, and pedagogy philosopher. Hywel specialises in using Drama approaches and storytelling in classrooms.

His books include ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ (written with Dr Debra Kidd) and ‘Botheredness’

He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.

He also runs a brewery.

www.botheredness.co.uk

Ian McMillan, writer and broadcaster on the book ‘Botheredness’: This book places teaching where it should be: at the centre of a nexus of art and science and thoughtfulness and resourcefulness and practicality and dreaming and love. This is a book for all teachers and, let’s face it, all human beings. Read it and grow.