Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how a Storyline approach might equip the teacher or leader to share and generate that passion for learning. It aims to do is to give teachers the scope to take their pupils to places, times and experiences that would be impossible in real life – but extremely accessible through the shared narrative of a storyline. In teaching this might manifest itself as the things that the teacher says and does to motivate, inspire and intrigue the learners in their care. There is a kind of magic when the relationship is strong and the learners 'believe' in the teacher. The learners need to believe in the project – to willingly suspend their disbelief sufficiently to play their part in the fiction.