User:Pawcotterill/Learning Through Action - the methodology

Active learning methods engage children and young people. Interactive workshops are ideal for getting a dialogue going, challenging preconceptions and stimulating fresh thinking. Learning Through Action methodology is able to break down barriers and encourage children/young people to really think about issues and behavioural choices and their consequences. Scenarios for Learning Through Action workshops are designed around proven techniques – from role-play to simulations and hot-seating – supported by a range of resources. They're led by highly-experienced teacher/facilitators and are often delivered by young, intensively-trained presenters. Learning Through Action has its roots in the active learning strategies pioneered by Professor Reg Revans and others in the 1960s and '70s. Our methodology was first developed by Annette Cotterill FRSA, MA, LRAM, CertEd, ADB in the early 1980s as a B.Ed. honours elective course. Concerned that structured interaction to facilitate learning was largely absent from teacher training at that time, in 1983 she formed a group called LEARNING THROUGH ACTION (LTA)which started to deliver lesson-support projects, using the techniques, across Berkshire and beyond. In 1991 the Learning Through Action Trust was formed – a not–for–profit company limited by guarantee (No: 2609387) --Pawcotterill (talk) 11:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)--Pawcotterill (talk) 11:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)and registered charity (No: 1014350). LTA welcomes observers at its workshops by prior arrangement. Over the years LTA has welcomed visitors from across the world, including a number of teachers/students both from the UK and abroad (eg Japan, Colombia, New Zealand, Tanzania, Lebanon) who have worked on secondment for from three to twelve months. Because the work that LTA delivers for children and young people is non-statutory, i.e. is not work required to be provided under UK Education Acts and regulations, LTA receives no direct UK Government financial support. Over the years some half-a-million children and young people have experienced LTA's interactive well-being workshops and Living History lesson support projects.