{"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=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEBMaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJGMEQCIFsc%2BUABOc%2FlMR%2FK1MhGwSAQZX%2FUs7IvZ%2Bs7kTM%2FBsp3AiB%2BOukBcgtakjz5wYg6M5OhpqmQzjopFqOpAQ5qBVk58SrCBQjc%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAUaDDI3MzU3MDE5NTQzMyIM4SB3aOn7H1Q5bSpNKpYF3Rfa363uecgUq4%2FlB6Id6nhXibOLebNw1IVD2aGJC6n5sgUej471xggZ1ISY7z03f6YDVFUrau5qOc8rU04NatWbrOmYJRtUHdzRmZjjSJkR8WJCY7a7QwbwQKbLAEYZxDBDl0WJlIj3c2gmfM6v2AV3UXPT7D0yiekbYYB5aqfD18ksBvG0cUkFrREuqr7sBQpDhUb1P2NAlaBsmn6q0z%2B3xGIeO84LVC7%2F1qvgY%2BFdzW3FCI9uyYTpCCkGnRuw41ITupVcASxy0SCh4oIpTO9GdAKygPYQrQxHQnapOURI7t2M%2BI%2FkOC1%2Bl0cm7Zcxix9THMWE6L1br%2FTwHPLG0IzJ2dfuNPh5UfQ4IlFKUnmJw5gV935Uo4muE8z5B%2BpEY9FBQ8F%2FjfI6aO9E2q1WEBW%2BZ7CeM%2BhM1UtCf5EMpBWsMU%2FbLIl%2BovO9zscmmnzTX4Dl%2F51Zk2OLGmP265CKmS4LAfsIup287nc3y3wAhPWg7m8TfSmk%2BkKa7dzxEaWm7%2BZCYg7N7J8IzGgz81Pit%2BN0BlLFA%2Bi7DE%2FF9nNMONElhwTZb9mN2Gxzud%2FxaFJmVAtSggvaRABmoct1z6BaJKgYauPromgmQSmyafWYuu%2BCj%2Fn8GLjUZgZDzV6bdYUhQpAve9DMbKZVZ2J0%2FMwuSzqKQ12dcdMqrmzhnXib%2Brm7VtzRMbhJMQsmOHmioRkPzVLpScRESM8TIKov0chysAbSrh5u8a%2F0Dwk35QRU6NANAwxlUvSUBtKSgvccx3JgiRsxDhJ7R1%2BqhwnOfFcdn7sMZOAWqJAxYBSPrQIQiqaIXraiKLlcO6%2FQMNfuV0p70xabFlC0B8bHJmxEQSSAq%2B25Nk4teqqtUXDMch1R7Q%2FnJtoOvEgwpaXG1gY6sgG2ERjL53pm%2F84e5Y3HuNrdbeiOMeOjdwHGEfks4L5xuVSzxRRwr88BDGCsQi2X0tHj1mGxEk74DdPSZA3EJ%2BObs8nboC3a8E1rfJmWp%2FSDItZMC09%2BtwgprXvLX68f%2BQSsu8yEazo9ZWsKtYpQHBqKu1kjU4oUlg%2Bx9Xjc76WYYcTaTVtvU%2BJhbycx9MkqKDG8xGyqz7LG%2FwaAGzAeKkxHD4H9SarMso6zeoaZtPtVEU%2B5&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47USHIHZMPM%2F20261016%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20261016T025954Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=93dc520f2605a3372d5d06e0f1910dae7b3a68900ddebde9776b3499fb02d628 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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