CPD sessions for Teaching National 3/4/5 Media

Sat 10 May 2014, 1000-1600 (1030 start)
Premier Inn Edinburgh City Haymarket, 1 Morrison Link, Haymarket, Edinburgh EH3 8DN
Fee: £50 (including digital resources, lunch and refreshments – please indicate any dietary requirements)
Target Audience: Prospective and current teachers/lecturers of SQA National Media
Aims: The course will
1. Outline the theoretical and pedagogical background to teaching the media at National level
2. Relate teaching and learning to internal assessment requirements of National 3, 4 and 5 Media
3. Relate teaching and learning to external assessment requirements of National 5 Media.
Teaching Higher Media (introduction)

Sat 7 Jun 2014, 1000-1600 (1030 start)
Premier Inn Edinburgh City Haymarket, 1 Morrison Link, Haymarket, Edinburgh EH3 8DN
Fee: £50 (including digital resources, lunch and refreshments – please indicate any dietary requirements)
Target Audience: Prospective teachers/lecturers of SQA Higher Media
Aims: The course will
1. Outline the theoretical and pedagogical background to teaching the media at Higher level
2. Relate teaching and learning to internal assessment requirements of Higher Media
3. Relate teaching and learning to external assessment requirements of Higher Media.
Teaching Higher Media (advanced)

Sat 14 Jun 2014, 1000-1600 (1030 start)
Premier Inn Edinburgh City Haymarket, 1 Morrison Link, Haymarket, Edinburgh EH3 8DN
Fee: £50 (including digital resources, lunch and refreshments – please indicate any dietary requirements)
Target Audience: Experienced teachers/lecturers of SQA Int 2/Higher Media Studies
Aims: The course will
1. Outline recent theoretical and pedagogical developments in teaching the media
2. Exemplify these developments in relation to multiple texts and media/society elements of Higher Media
3. Relate teaching and learning to internal and external assessment requirements of Higher Media.

Rick Instrell
Deep Learning
10 Roman Court
Pathhead
Midlothian
EH37 5AH
Telephone: 01875 320737
Mobile: 07931 734825
www.deep-learning.co.uk Email: info@deep-learning.co.uk

About the tutor: Rick Instrell is a founder member of AMES (Association for
Media Education in Scotland, www.mediaedscotland.org.uk) and co-wrote
the original SQA Media Studies arrangements. He has taught media & film
studies at school and university levels and is a reguler contibutor to AMES’
‘Media Education Journal’. He runs a CPD and consultancy business (Deep
Learning, www.deep-learning.co.uk) and has acted as a consultant on media
projects for Channel 4 and Film Nation UK. He is an associate of the National
Schools Partnership and is working on BFI’s Film Nation UK project.