School says goodbye to books

Anonymous Patron writes “An experiment in materials-free teaching brings positive results, says Luke Meddings Dogme is best described as a loose grouping of teachers, teacher trainers and authors who have contributed to an e-group on materials-light teaching over the past six years. What it means in practice depends on the teaching context, which is part of the point – addressing immediate student needs rather than the ones prescribed and perhaps proscribed by a textbook – but certain principles have resolved themselves into a shared practice. These include placing free conversation at the heart of the lesson, and allowing teaching points to emerge from this interaction.”