Category Archives: Creative practitioners

CPD, Creative practitioners, Scotland Colleges

Activity generator: participatory ideas to spice up your classroom and engage your learners

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Friday 7 February 2014 (10:00 – 16:00)

College Development Network, Argyll Court, Stirling

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This half-day experiential event will provide participants with lots of ideas for engaging students from induction through to pre-exit.

We will be demonstrating how to build a positive classroom climate, engage students and how to structure sessions that maintain cooperative behaviours.

Activities will include:

  • Ice-breakers – how to develop positive relationships from the start
  • Building a positive classroom climate – maintaining relationships
  • Energisers – dealing with apathy
  • Settlers – creating focus and structure
  • Promoting both individual and group work
  • Evaluating the class experience, learning and the teaching approach.
Art, Art and Design, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Glow TV, Music, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Glow TV – Puppetry Workshop for teachers – linked to War Horse

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Join us for this exciting behind the scenes look at puppetery as teachers work with Finn Caldwell who is one of the original War Horse puppeteers. Finn has directed the puppetry for productions of War Horse in the West End and in Australia.  He has also just directed the puppetry in The Light Princess at the National Theatre and is directing a children’s puppetry show called Elephantom in The Shed.

For more information click here.

Competition, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Drama, Literacy and English, Music, Technologies

Get pupils excited about reading with Book Trailers

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Creating Book Trailers is a fantastic way to enthuse your learners about reading and develop their critical skills. This year, Scottish Book Trust are running their first ever book trailer competition for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards, and have published a wealth of resources to help you get creative with trailers. Closing date for entries is 7 February.

Art, Art and Design, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Dance, Drama, Expressive Arts, Music

Expressive Arts Conversation Day 1

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The first Expressive Arts Conversation Day was held on 25 November 2013 at the Raploch Community Campus in Stirling. The event featured several stimulating practitioner inputs and lively discussion throughout.
The main themes we explored (identified during the morning session) were:
• developing appropriate expressive arts CPD
• providing appropriate support
• developing an effective model that balances creative space with skills development
• creating sustainable partnerships.
A second Expressive Arts Conversation Day is in the planning phase and we intend that it will probably take place in Inverness in February or early March to provide greater opportunity for our colleagues from further afield to attend. For more information, please read the blog post.
Art, Competition, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Expressive Arts, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

NATIONAL ART COMPETITION

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Livingstone’s Legacy: Equality and Education

A national art competition has been launched to mark the bi-centenary of David Livingstone’s birth. The competition is open to primary and secondary schools in Scotland who are invited to submit entries byFriday 31 January 2014.

Winners will be announced by the Minister for External Affairs and International Development, Humza Yousef, on Friday 7 March and winning entries will be displayed at a public exhibition at the Edinburgh Storytelling Centre from 8 -15 March 2014 alongside artwork by young people from Malawi.

The competition is being co-ordinated by The Open University in Scotland and the Scotland Malawi Partnership. Further details of the competition including links to Curriculum for Excellence can be found at www.tinyurl.com/LivingstoneArt.

Creative practitioners, Education Scotland, Events, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Scottish Education Awards 2014

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Nominations for the 2014 Scottish Education Awards are now open.

The Scottish Education Awards celebrate the hard work and success which takes place in Scottish education. They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in Scottish classrooms.

The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday 21 February 2014. For more information and to see the full list of categories, please visit the Scottish Education Awards website.

Creative practitioners, Scotland Colleges

Quick – Out Now!

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The winter edition of College Development Network’s Quick newsletter has now been published.
This quarterly newsletter aims to keep you up-to-date with the wide range of activity that College Development Network is undertaking on behalf of and with colleges in Scotland.
In this issue
  • Annual Awards – Winners and Photos
  • Adaptive Comparative Judgement
  • Festival of Dangerous Ideas – Design Competition
  • Barclays Money Skills Weeks
  • Leading and Learning
  • Shared Services

… and more!

CPD, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Early Years

Creative Skills – Training for Early Years Practitioners

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Starcatchers are delivering a free training programme in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Fife, South Lanarkshire and Inverclyde as part of a pilot project to develop creative skills for early years workers in Scotland which is being supported by the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland.

The programme will allow early years workers from a range of sectors to build their understanding of the importances of creativity in early years and through a series of artist-led practical sessions, will offer skills and techniques that practitioners can use when they are working with children and families directly.

They are currently recruiting participants for the project, all the information is on their website here: http://www.starcatchers.org.uk/creative-skills/creative-skills-early-years-practitioners