Category Archives: Creative Learning

Creative Learning, Creativity, Music, Opportunities

Music Plus

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http://www.musicplus.org.uk/

Music Plus is a mentoring scheme run by the Scottish Music Centre and supported by the Youth Music Initiative.

The aim of the project is to link young people 1:1 with music industry professionals who’ll offer guidance, encouragement, skills and knowledge across a range of industry roles from performance to event promotion.

Online registration is now open for those who are:

– age 14-19
– living in Glasgow, Fife and The Highlands
– involved in making any kind of music
– interested in working in the music industry
This opportunity is available in: Fife, Glasgow City, Highland
For further information, please contact musicplus@scottishmusiccentre.com (Keith Beattie), or call 0141 552 5222, or visit http://www.musicplus.org.uk. The deadline is Friday 31 August 2012 at 18:00.

Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, glow, glow meet, Literacy and English, News, Opportunities

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Glow TV

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This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival RBS School Programme is bigger than ever before. It runs from 20th – 28th August in Charlotte Square Edinburgh and many events are live in Glow TV! It’s also truly international with writers from Australia, Canada, the USA, France and Poland as well as from all parts of the UK.

http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2012/07/02/edinburgh-international-book-festival-and-glow-tv/

Art, Contemporary Arts Dunfermline, Creative Learning, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, News

Successful Summer School

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FCA&C recently held a summer school in collaboration with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust. Aimed at 5th and 6th year pupils who were hoping to go on shortly to art school, the 2 day event was experienced by 10 pupils from all over Fife. They met 3 practising artists who described their career path to date and also gave them some practical sketching exercises. It was so successful that we hope to make this an annual event. As one pupil commented on leaving “…opened my eyes as to what art college would be like and in fact really
got me excited about going.” You can’t get better than that and we wish them all a lot of success in their future.

Creative Learning, Creativity, News

The Creativity Post

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The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience

 

In this age of innovation, even more important than being an effective problem solver, is being a problem finder. It’s one thing to look at a problem and be able to generate a solution; it is another thing to be able to look at an ambiguous situation, and decide if there is a problem that needs to be solved. That’s a skill that isn’t really targeted by traditional teaching methods, and in fact, it is often discouraged. Rule-breaking , to an extent, should be tolerated and encouraged, and yes—even taught. To reach this end, we should be teaching and encouraging creative disobedience.

Click here to read the full article

Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, glow, Health and Wellbeing, resources, Science

Have you used Glow Science yet?

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Glow Science includes over 650 short films that hundreds of teachers are using to enrich and support their teaching in the sciences and technologies. Tailored to Curriculum for Excellence – and tagged to levels 2, 3 and 4 – the films provide teachers with accurate and engaging visuals for the teaching of science, technology, and health and wellbeing.

All resources are free with your Glow log-in.

Creative Learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Learning, News, Opportunities, Outdoor learning, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Discover Aberdour Castle!

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Visit Aberdour Castle as part of your class project and book a session with the Monument Manager.  Each session includes a tour of the castle and an interactive activity.  NEW for 2012! Try your hand at 16th century dance – complete with lords and ladies costume.

Suitable for P1-P7

Tuesdays only

Duration – 90 minutes

Maximum number – 33 pupils

Cost – FREE

Contact Aberdour Castle to book a session on 01383 860 519

 

CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Learning, Opportunities

Embedding Creativity Across Learning

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Creativity and You! Embedding Creativity Across Learning – May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm

The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.

Click here for more info

CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

CPD – Scottish Storytelling Centre

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Connecting with Culture

Courses and workshops

May to Dec 2012

Scotland’s storytellers, songmakers, musicians and dancers have come together to offer a feast of participative culture for all those who are involved in arts, education and community making across Scotland.

The new training programme for May to December is ready to download.

 

CPD, Creative Learning, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Learning, Opportunities, Scotland Colleges

Festival of Dangerous ideas!

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11-15 June, Venues throughout Scotland

 

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible!
During the week-long festival, in conjunction with Creative Scotland and partners, there will be a variety of activities happening across Scotland.