{"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 loading=\"lazy\" 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=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEHQaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJIMEYCIQDnSw9PzgQ8iHuzn5D4RFShl1lXaIurtl331S0CgFzeLwIhAI9O7Q8ZBo21nLqO1%2F5l1DuSdem4rF5rzN8SXhh1ph%2FnKrkFCD0QBRoMMjczNTcwMTk1NDMzIgwDq2uvWJDnqBQPHE0qlgV1fQ0B7VC9Q%2Fip%2BbSORjRViwqJOMajsUJQE1UE2UWv7pIWTV5hF%2BuL2lx4Yf3U%2BCOk%2FCBGXOPXb3QwPTxV2frARM2BIJTb2hkZ%2BYh1CZv524EqNoIdMDGIVdMVn2u0PUTYN05zYvRs7mM7fk5VAhXq5z9MtKA044fnHEHiUGqtNqKn4VK9ZbtQMypgACB2DSWuUL3Dc0EIqHotI0v8lrex9g8SG6N%2BOZDNj%2Bb9myRRq0Sby%2BbccOe8PodrVaxD8ArvNEp8rlbp5CXT2ZU4o0iCM%2FkD1sS8oPnGa%2FxIZWDTBomK0U1L0F5IqeEvkjtKaq%2FLOw4A%2Bh%2FX%2FEgt1IwWnDAolmU%2BNBIvZhgApZPMWhV46OJPHPrlsDwLvjnQSYKc%2BVksqIwOksG%2BPWkOD4vJm8jW0ybyYTE9BjEMlzNlaGpSAY4ZaB0vg1xSq%2BOrMMUj8rVUWEwyN27%2BQGsTgiVJUQmdQm7lt8IUyfYx6qgTasjgQJfIjo%2B4b3j7IgGi5I6w0mnvpP%2FzmLPgd7ktnR85Yae0C8br0O5f8NmtvRj2rr%2B78%2BYBoXiRD4d6%2Buc4sw1Q7j7gNbBO0vnGIHESdtr7YxSyKjSX9AyKdd0wQuDlPjfAZkR2HIc2udQRjD3on7oBFkmSZmXchByB0xaU1JXG9Kir%2FbSrtgvicxcXOXJNpACG9t0lDULpS2kvW6ns%2BTU%2F4%2FgSpYbogEYylqbqSiOdY6711eQHmSbW6IOhtGzxnr6qE8YZTaL%2Fp72R3NNgDqd77vm%2FwS4ng6Rc67lOPAqUZICmx4DpXx6%2F5KCJYX13rjrqDxsaw%2FuvvzVhu9hOMoVWDqAzM8lbc81iBY5YFVegitE5f3i%2F%2FoMqzwBewYs3TQP%2B41B7IqMzYjC7hsjQBjqwAS1u2K3H5ILwWPeM2R80gMd1K82Eq6vtnffYAHqWBbujpGPhUuZHrpByuVnw4xdhywu1UEwLWXzPYfLMYJ1uq9El25cynBTQJV4EDUnaIxm5O%2BuuQrsKkvDLxJyDxletXUd3p08Vh97LmShbLIquW%2FyvfJVmPGvTRF4tMHILaaXb8YcYGsT01idEbJ7NgOzOLDAbCPoeBSmU3t8T6fX9qNP%2FFSW1kRmHxzaxnnAp2Xsd&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47UZODQHKM2%2F20260523%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260523T195443Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=56ca9de73afa255220610ffcded751fe0deae8cf7635e2d8e97b548516769cc1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (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 loading=\"lazy\" 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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