{"id":2,"date":"2013-01-29T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-04-21T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:51:01","slug":"about-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/CurriculumSupport\/about-team\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-92 size-full\" title=\"QQCSupportWordle\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/CurriculumSupport\/uploads\/sites\/1906\/2013\/01\/QQCSupportWordle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/CurriculumSupport\/uploads\/sites\/1906\/2013\/01\/QQCSupportWordle.jpg 600w, https:\/\/glow-prod-fa.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/fa\/public\/CurriculumSupport\/uploads\/sites\/1906\/2013\/01\/QQCSupportWordle-300x139.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEPr%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDsRn07RhitPtVZbinq5%2BxRVOnWfDgVtCbJkVKF4x6fFQIgM7SKT40sCd2S7I5uXnkc0Tvfm7dx%2FJ3q03hC85e0zDMqwQUIw%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAFGgwyNzM1NzAxOTU0MzMiDChOP2UuW0lebAQDdiqVBamxRvAOSae6kDbFNWQjkIQa6GzxNvNazfgC2mAbSh6Jy%2FM77DnimKe0MOJsdpWc9i%2BwbQItmZzk8Xi72a7ZbN4NEEDMc2OJP9AwLZynYtNMSLq%2F6OjWPzyPGY4lLynPyK8Vtly6x%2BTiDtV2WjK7oI1kmjjzjZhyYgFM9vwIff4Xc%2BCFVhbxRfv%2FL%2BMQsaBNm5Q4RsU%2F6PhTws194c6Ae9nQbriMHq2WEoWg3RXNxc9mqwWyPyDn7JomyE3fWtD8Gm8SJ2uaaTJl3krIHJpCvZdPTzJAnr2dv8ie2oLMHuD%2FiHwl8rHTEMi1tN8qYLDXSjTD%2B5VonwVZyVhlKU0Ocs2Xll4ln7FahpcxbaiXIkK6vOF9x4BPPu1MH86rpOVxoHqoiTFbc6fsv9PVg2p0Ikhs9ZE0S2GDCaLkzA985pHHOvleLAlUn8VX600LsrSkEZKrmbeMqTdGC5ZVgqEYOYu2%2F0hjVpOS8Mav6oZG1KcDwmCt936cUWoBHnIEFIx8GQJfzJ7%2BP6uTC1SBsHcPKI8rtN0o1Z410xVpaMygjlkgv3K1SQOq04vgx4yFAHQgya0I%2FNT%2BbSdiFEVk%2BuGqiTQiLKgFUK8fepd%2BkA0eWVrf7JwGwwl%2Bmomoo4z6WKEWsgt6moGuxY2oydvN9EyCHj6PbVgJBQdztv1bVOxFmxxIDzobb3hdUfas29lf0j856cNwujS%2B%2B3JreqsdyrL6x7boEblXMNHjPo%2BVyC8K9LEksGXFTCL9ZyfROKW%2FzDOuexpDVYypYThRPruiSfwA1r1k6nG4OliQQRNhvf%2BKN2lOqnFdZZq3N7VyxB3X2l%2BgasnNpOTZprJhSf9KBmy%2FFIiugTEMkzpLUYQcANK7O0B6Yj5a5Uwwx5yx1wY6sQEXgDAY1MQCWCcFqSn578J2MgYixIspCvgpVrvFA%2BnREUKytnhU%2B1owyPxTd7CXo8A3BwBZdD6BcizFiDkuU94FZbQbTOX8Bpc7KHuwXdLaUAd1Z1MnlK0jyMIicBf8NSGtGJYew%2BHhi7%2BQvn%2B18pIEIGkoPOe%2BZG%2BRjzLoOkETj%2BIVgMuwjfz47GDz6c2OoSb3WsV9VgKcb3a9K8CY4UyOsI7ae1f4ZNTfuEzruwpzMmk%3D&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U7B7DMJMM%2F20261105%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20261105T094402Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=0045217fab8b5e1fd67c2b1d9adb6abf81276570b6cc8a6fc33cb76b15acf204 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Falkirk Council Education Services Curriculum Support\u00a0and Quality Improvement\u00a0is based at The Foundry and Sealock House.\u00a0 The remit of the team encompasses Continuing Professional Development, Curriculum Development 3-18, Workforce &amp; Organisational Development, Professional Review and Development, Probationer Support, Digital Technologies, Health &amp; Wellbeing, Library Support for Schools, and central support for work experience.<\/p>\n<p>The team supports the recommendations of <em>Teaching Scotland&#8217;s Future &#8211; Report of a review of teacher education in Scotland<\/em> (Graham Donaldson, December 2010) in contributing towards building the professional capacity of staff to ensure a positive impact on young people&#8217;s learning, supporting and strengthening leadership, promoting the highest standards of professional competence and commitment, working with partners to promote the delivery of career-long teacher education, developing and sharing good practice across all educational establishments in Falkirk Council.<\/p>\n<h3>Overview of Support to schools provided by Falkirk Council Education Services Curriculum Support Team<\/h3>\n<p>The Curriculum Support Team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a strategic lead for innovation and development.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrates flexibility and creativity<\/li>\n<li>Provides credible and valuable encouragement and support<\/li>\n<li>Adds value to the quality of the service provided by educational establishments<\/li>\n<li>Communicates and collaborates effectively<\/li>\n<li>Builds and maintains quality relationships<\/li>\n<li>Develops and implements sustainable systems<\/li>\n<li>Influences practice and development and provides mechanisms for sharing practice<\/li>\n<li>Responds effectively to national\/local\/educational establishment priorities<\/li>\n<li>Co-ordinates, develops and leads Continuing Professional Development opportunities related to authority and educational establishment priorities<\/li>\n<li>Undertakes regular validated self-evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-451 size-full\" title=\"Sharing Practice\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/CurriculumSupport\/uploads\/sites\/1906\/2013\/01\/Sharing-Practice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"128\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Members of the Curriculum Support team:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>provide face-to-face professional dialogue, and respond to requests for advice by telephone and email from colleagues across all sectors of the education services<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0contribute to working parties, focus groups, networks and curriculum management groups, bringing their experience of working in and with educational establishments to focus on developing practices for learners<\/li>\n<li>provide one-to-one support for colleagues across all sectors of the education services<\/li>\n<li>contribute to the research and preparations for guidance documentation in consultations with colleagues in educational establishments &amp; nationally<\/li>\n<li>research and evaluate resources to meet identified needs of educational establishments and undertake the required procurement processes<\/li>\n<li>support educational establishments in complying with legislation, and local and national guidance, in the delivery of learning and teaching experiences and outcomes<\/li>\n<li>support and encourage educational establishments in meeting the requirements of local and national awards, competitions and accreditation schemes<\/li>\n<li>work in partnership with educational establishments and others in adding value to validated self evaluation<\/li>\n<li>liaise\u00a0with\u00a0other\u00a0agencies\u00a0to\u00a0improve\u00a0outcomes\u00a0for\u00a0learners<\/li>\n<li>co-ordinate the deployment of authority-wide resources within educational establishments<\/li>\n<li>organise, co-ordinate and support authority-wide events and activities<\/li>\n<li>develop, co-ordinate, maintain and promote online spaces for sharing resources and practice, and for collaboration within and across educational establishments locally and nationally<\/li>\n<li>provide continuing professional development within educational establishments and centrally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Meet the team members<\/h3>\n<p>You can find out about each individual member of the Curriculum Support Team on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/CurriculumSupport\/meet-the-team\/\">Meet the Team<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0How do we measure impact and effectiveness?<\/h3>\n<p>As a service we measure the impact of our work and its effectiveness in a number of ways, including questionnaires, validation visits, scrutiny visits, QIO evaluations, SMT qualitative feedback, professional dialogue, probationary teacher classroom observations, surveys, statistics of usage of Glow Groups, Blogs\/website evidence, MIICE, and activity statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Falkirk Council Education Services Curriculum Support\u00a0and Quality Improvement\u00a0is based at The Foundry and Sealock House.\u00a0 The remit of the team encompasses Continuing Professional Development, Curriculum Development 3-18, Workforce &amp; 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