Case Studies Vol.18 2016 Xxxx Making a Mark in the Tees Valley Xxxxxx Anna Husband Heritage Learning Consultant Online Learning

Making a Mark in the Tees Express yourself Sing 500 Valley Dionne Matthews Spence Kim Klug Anna Husband and Sarah Allen GEM Lifetime Achievement Hastings Pier Digital Balancing business Award: Katrina Siliprandi Memory with pleasure Faye Kalloniatis with Colly GEM champions Beatrice Rapley Anna Smalley Mudie and Richard Wood excellence in heritage learning Our Stories: Culloden, Becoming Makaton and Jacobites and flash fiction autism friendly ISSN 1759-6378 Catriona McIntosh Elena Trimarchi Re-collection Assessing our impact Christina Parker Jackie Dodworth and Richard Tyson Case Studies Vol.18 2016 xxxx Making a Mark in the Tees Valley xxxxxx Anna Husband Heritage Learning Consultant Online Learning xxxxxWhat is Editorial Making a GEM?xxxxxx Mark in the GEM champions excellence in I hope you are eagerly looking Summary The big news since the last edition is heritage learning to improve the forward to reading volume 18 of that thanks to a £168,000 resilience Tees Valley education,xxxxxx health and wellbeing GEM Case Studies with articles grant from Arts Council England ofBackground the general public. focusing on a variety of topics and (ACE), GEM is setting up a new Online resources for schools xxxxxxxx audiences. Authors may look to see permanent Learning and Sharing GEM believes that involvement how their case study looks in print, Centre for all those in the cultural with our rich and diverse heritage and others may skim through to see sector that are involved in education. is an enriching and transformational what has been happening in heritage experience that provides distinctive organisations across the UK. Sadly, With our partners we will build upon opportunities for learning. We aim some of us may put this edition to existing best practice to provide to make that learning accessible, one side, quietly promising to read it training and CPD at all levels, and relevant and enjoyable for all. when we have a moment – a moment we will encourage the workforce to GEM works with its members and that may never come. network, and share experiences, Summary exploring personal and local identity be organised. We worked with collaboratively with other learning skills and knowledge. There will be The National Portrait Gallery through people’s stories – as a focus. Inspire2Learn – a teaching and learning centre funded by local organisations across the UK and Those readers who are professional new online resources and an online (NPG) and museums across the During its first three years, the schools – to recruit teachers for the internationally to: heritage educators, or aspire to be “signpost” so you can find relevant partnership created a cohesive Tees Valley have developed consultation from their existing • champion excellence in heritage one, will most likely devour these training opportunities. learning programme for schools Making a Mark in the Tees networks and to help launch and learning and participation enabling pages in order to improve their best I am certain that GEM’s Learning and with sessions in each of the regional Valley, an online learning publicise the resource. people to be inspired by, value and professional practice. The ability to Sharing Centre will meet the needs of museums. Nationally significant enjoy their and other’s heritage; reflect on one’s own practice, and to today’s workforce and help to ensure resource for schools exploring portraits with local resonance were • advocate the power of heritage improve it, is a mark of a true that GEM has a sustainable future. personal and local identity loaned by the NPG to the Tees Valley learning in transforming people’s professional. through museum collections. museums for a series of locally lives to sector organisations, The GEM trustees are pleased to If you are keeping a reflective journal focused exhibitions. national agencies, funders and congratulate Katrina Siliprandi on Background and have an action plan for your own government; becoming the first recipient of GEM’s For the past four years, the NPG has Challenge continuous professional development • influence sector organisations to new Lifetime Achievement Award to been working with eight museums We recognised that high quality (CPD) you will know what I’m talking deliver excellent learning and retired members of GEM for services in the Tees Valley, as part of the museum learning for schools about. You will know how important it participation for their visitors; to museum education and/or GEM Arts Council England (ACE) funded begins and ends in the is to read and reflect, and that a note • promote and explain the benefits of itself. Details of her achievements Museum and Schools programme. classroom, and that teachers of your reflections can be made in learning through heritage which is are listed in this edition. The key aim of this partnership is to need support to maximise your journal and any resulting actions inclusive, sustainable and respectful connect local children and students learning opportunities and put in your CPD plan. Everyone who Enjoy reading Case Studies, but also of communities; with their heritage, helping them to take visits beyond an participates in one of our foundation reflect on its contents. Perhaps it will • develop creative partnerships develop a sense of place and identity, isolated “day out”. courses learns how to keep a reflective inspire you to write an article for the with other organisations to share and in so doing raise their aspirations. journal, and a CPD action plan and log. next edition? Approach effective practice in heritage The history of the Tees Valley With the Museums and Schools Those GEM members wishing to John Stevenson learning and participation; encompasses industry and innovation, initiative in its final year and the become professional members of • research and pioneer innovation in creativity and design, and exploration. funding reaching an end, the GEM may already be keeping a heritage learning and participation; Collectively, the partner museums approach needed to be sustainable, reflective journal as we have announced Group for Education in Museums • inspire and support the work of offer fascinating insights into the low maintenance and easily that one element of becoming a GEM 54 Balmoral Road, Gillingham heritage learning practitioners; people and stories that shaped this accessible for teachers. We decided professional member is to keep a Kent ME7 4PG • provide opportunities for remarkable region and its impact to create an online resource and to reflective journal. Guidance on how Tel/Fax: 01634 853424 practitioners to develop their on Britain and the wider world. We consult local teachers about which to become a professional member [email protected] practice through networking, created the idea of Making a Mark – content to include and how it should mentoring and learning together. will be available in the new year. www.gem.org.uk 2 GEM CASE STUDIES Vol.18 2016 GEM CASE STUDIES Vol.18 2016 3 Making a Mark in the Tees Valley Anna Husband Heritage Learning Consultant Online Learning What they really need is: time and co-ordination needed for a • A quick route to your best stuff – collaborative project such as this. Further information a “greatest hits” of good quality Working with a local partner with The Tees Valley museums comprise images (and video clips if you have existing teacher networks proved Kirkleatham Museum, Cleveland them) from your collection that they very effective in gaining support Ironstone Mining Museum, Dorman can print, project onto a whiteboard and interest from schools. Feedback Museum, Captain Cook Birthplace or repurpose in a presentation or from our successful launch event at Museum, Middlesbrough Institute of tablet app. Inspire2Learn showed teachers not Modern Art, Preston Park Museum, • Access to your knowledge through only welcoming the resource to help Head of Steam – Darlington Railway concise, audience-focused text prepare for and follow up museum Museum, and the Hartlepool (or video if you have the budget) visits in their classrooms, and really Museum and Art Gallery. The NPG – the teachers we consulted make the most of museum collections, are the national partner. particularly liked the inclusion of but asking whether the resource could “Did you know?” facts as a way View the resources: be extended to include even more of “hooking” their students into www.npg.org.uk/MaMTeesValley objects and images. deeper content. Tell us what you think: • Simple classroom activities – Next steps #MaMTeesValley teachers wanted flexible, workable, The partners will continue to evaluate ideas, pointers and starters (as use of the resource via Google Analytics Useful links opposed to detailed lesson plans) and anecdotal evidence from visiting Evaluation of Extending Digital organised by key stage. teachers. The Tees Valley museums Practice programme – Flow UK and will work with Inspire2Learn to deliver Working across a local/regional Artswork teacher continuing professional partnership of nine museums and development for using the resource www.artswork.org.uk/wp-content/ galleries is an effective way of and to explore possibilities to work uploads/artswork-extending- producing a resource of a quality and together to extend the resource further. innovative-practice-background- range that will genuinely engage digital-report-new-....pdf Intended outcomes coupled with ensuring all partner portraits and manuscripts. These were teachers. However, consideration must Anna Husband be given to the significant amount of Heritage

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