The following document from Education Scotland provides advice for practitioners for delivering learning and teaching online: Learning and Teaching Online: Advice for Practitioners

Below are links to six recent probationer enquiry presentations:

• Ailsa Munro – Assessment is for Learning Strategies
• Caroline Stirton – Can physical activities help number recall in children?
• Michelle Conley – Brain breaks in Primary 5
• Sandra Wilson – What is the problem with maths word problems?
• Katelyn Holmes – Static vs. Working Wall Displays
• Alexander Couper – How does parental involvement influence learner engagement in reading and writing?

The aim of this programme is to:

• Increase the quality of teaching and learning
• Increase consistency of the quality of teaching and learning across departments, schools or clusters
• Meet the individual development needs of departments, schools or clusters
• Empower teachers as agents of professional learning and development
• Increase pupil engagement, challenge and learning efficacy

Read the full document here: A Guided Approach to Pedagogical Enquiry

Appendices are listed below:

• Appendix 1: Co-developing Success Criteria
• Appendix 2: Effective Questioning (Part 1 of 2)
• Appendix 2: Effective Questioning (Part 2 of 2)
• Appendix 3: Bounce Questions
• Appendix 4: Hinge Point Questions
• Appendix 5: Plenaries

There are spaces available on this year’s GLPS course.
The training programme is held at Stirling Court Hotel and is centrally funded.
Those who have undertaken the GLPS training in the past are full of praise for the tools and confidence it has given them to deliver Gaelic Language Learning in their settings. The closing date for the participants to put their name forward via their Headteacher is Friday 9th September 2016

PRIMARY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT DAY
Loch Fyne Hotel : Thursday 29 October 9.30am -3.30pm
This event is funded by the Youth Music Initiative.

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See below to download materials from the recent Curriculum Design Days held during 2013/14

Day One resources:

Agenda Day 1

Day 1 letter

Curriculum presentation power point

Curriculum provision taxonomy summary

Curriculum provision taxonomy detail

Curriculum Jigsaw template

Curriculum Evaluation example

Curriculum Evaluation A

Curriculum Evaluation B

Day Two resources:

Agenda Day 2

Day 2 letter

A curriculum plan or statement

Design Principals:

Design Principles Resource

The Four Capacities:

Four Capacities Audit

The Four Contexts:

Four Contexts Resource (updated)

Working docs:

Audit – Curriculum areas and subjects

Audit – Ethos and life of the school 1

Audit – Ethos and life of the school 2

Audit – Interdisciplinary learning

Audit – Opportunities for personal achievement 1

Audit – Opportunities for Personal Achievement 2

NEW!! Opportunities for Personal Achievement 3

Vision, Values and Aims:

VVA presentation

Schools’ plans:

Dalintober

Curriculum Statement: Kilcreggan Primary

Curriculum map Kilcreggan

Kilmartin map

Rhunahaorine map

Lismore

UHI, together with Highland Council, Shetland Islands Council, Orkney Islands Council, Comhairle nan Eilean, Moray Council and Argyll and Bute Council was successful in applying for funds to facilitate Masters-level learning for teachers.
The programme will commence on Monday 8 September. Included below are the selection criterion. Please note that as this is Master-level learning applicants should hold an Honours Degree. Our aim is to complete the selection process before the start of the summer break so that successful individuals have sufficient time to do a bit of background reading over the holiday period.
Further information on the programme can be found HERE
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity please submit an application outlining the planned focus for your work and how it will support Argyll and Bute Education Priorities and the priorities of the establishment in which you teach. You must also include confirmation from your Headteacher that they support your submission and that it will be a priority in your school improvement plan.
This information should be submitted to wendy.brownlie@argyll-bute.gov.uk no later than 3pm on Friday 6 June.
selection criteria:-
1. Two applications from a school will be favourably considered where the two applicants plan to cooperate with each other and to use relevant techniques such as a) peer mentoring and b) peer observation of each other’s classrooms;
2. Applications will only be considered by UHI if the applicant has been endorsed and supported by, relevant local authority personnel;
3. Applicants must demonstrate awareness of local authority educational priorities and development plan objectives;
4. Applicants must be endorsed by their head teacher;
5. Applicants must demonstrate that the planned focus of work is embedded within current school development priorities;
6. Applicants must be fully registered teachers;
7. Applicants must be class contact teachers;
8. Applicants will be expected to contribute to INSET at school and authority level in relation to areas of research;
9. Applicants will be required to participate in probationer training.

Please find below the updated version of Education Scotland’s Sciences Resource Guide. Download it HERE

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Ian Menzies, Education Scotland