Noisy Classroom - Great Resource for Teachers
Welcome to the noisyclassroom.com, a website dedicated to helping teachers and their students enrich the learning process by learning how to engage in exciting, dynamic and practical Speaking & Listening activities as a key part of studies across the curriculum.
The Noisy Manifesto
- A Noisy Classroom can be a sign of engaged pupils who are active in their learning.
- Silence is important for reading, writing and reflection but it is not the always the golden rule. Debate, discussion and dialogue are vital too.
- Teachers are always in control of the decibel levels - the classroom is only noisy when they want it to be.
- Not everyone can always make noise at the same time; teaching good listening skills is at the heart of the Noisy Classroom.
- If we want to send off confident and articulate young adults into the world, we must let them practise their spoken skills as well as their reading and writing.
- Please be considerate of your neighbours. Warn them in advance of a noisy lesson or try to book another space in the school.
- Please be open-minded to noise. Don't assume that a noisy classroom is out of control - it could be where the most exciting learning in the school is going on.
The Noisy Classroom ... who are we?
The Noisy Classroom is a website and training organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the use of speaking and listening in the classroom. Our aim is to help teachers use a range of debate, discussion, dialogue, role play and enquiry as part of the Noisy Learning experience. We love a noisy classroom and all of the vibrant, active work going on inside it and campaign against the idea that only a silent classroom is an effective one. We want all students to leave school as confident and articulate adults and are dedicated to fostering those skills.
Debbie Newman, Founder & Director
The Noisy Classroom's founder and lead trainer is Debbie Newman. Debbie has experience of coaching speech and debate around the world at all levels. She is a previous English national debating champion, president of the Cambridge Union Society and world champion schools debate coach. She has been on the faculty of the World Debate Institute, the International Debate Academy (IDAS) and the UK Debate Academy and is a former Head of the Centre for Speech and Debate at the English-Speaking Union in London.
Debbie is a qualified secondary teacher and her focus is on speaking and listening in schools: both working with children, from 8-18, and also working with teachers to help build their skills and confidence. She is a trustee of the English Speaking Board, a City Lit tutor, a primary school governor and a Speech and Debate committee member at the English-Speaking Union.
Debbie has brought together a group of expert teachers and facilitators to produce resources and offer bespoke training to schools.
Sam Kitchener
Sam has led workshops in debating, public-speaking, drama and Citizenship for the past ten years. He has coached debating at City of London School for Girls and Clapton Girls Technology College, and taught debating and communication skills across the country and abroad. He represented England at the World Schools Debating Championships in 2002 and 2003 (when he also captained the team). He also works in the Houses of Parliament Education Service, where he has helped develop a number of their programmes. Sam is also a writer, and has had work published in the Spectator, the Literary Review, and the Huffington Post.
Jack Gamble
Jack is an experienced teacher and workshop leader in public speaking, debating and drama. He represented Cambridge University three times at the World Universities Debating Championships and twice on tours of US universities. He was the Chief Adjudicator of the International Competition for Young Debaters and the Cambridge Schools' Debating Competition. He also represented England at the World Schools Debating Championships, reaching the Grand Finals in 2009. As a director, actor and writer, Jack has worked on over twenty productions, including several with the Cambridge Footlights and the Marlowe Society at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, ADC Theatre and Arts Theatre West End. In 2012 he performed in a reading of The Lady Vanishes for the Hitchcock season at BFI Southbank. Stefan Golaszewski awarded him the 2013 Harry Porter Prize for Best New Comic Play. He is the Artistic Director of Dippermouth Theatre.
Melanie Pope
Melanie has been debating successfully since she was twelve years old. In 2009 she represented England in the World Schools Debating Championships and reached the Grand Finals. As a student at Oxford, Melanie has been involved in running and judging numerous schools debating competitions. She is a successful and inspirational coach to children of all ages.
Harold Raitt
Harold is an experienced workshop leader across a number of fields, including public speaking, drama, music and film. He particularly enjoys integrating work in these different areas to provide exciting learning opportunities spanning a whole range of curriculum subjects from English and History to Science and ICT.
Harold worked as Debates & Education Officer at the English-Speaking Union from 2004 - 2007, where he was responsible for the London Debate Challenge and where he developed a range of new teaching methods to make debating more relevant and productive in whole-class teaching scenarios. From 2007 - 2009 he was part of the Education Department at the National Theatre, receiving a BAFTA nomination for the work that he and his team undertook creating world-class online education materials. Since 2010 he has been freelance working on a number of projects, including working with young people and teachers for the Noisy Classroom, and building this website.
Ben Woolgar
Ben Woolgar won the World Schools Debating Championships in 2008 when he was on the England Schools Debating team. As a student at Oxford University he won the European Debate Championships and reached the Grand Final of the World Universities Debating Championships. As well as being one of the most successful debaters of his generation, Ben is an experienced and dynamic coach and judge at primary school, secondary school and university level.
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