Education Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a series of short ‘Creative Conversations’ on key areas of policy reform that focus on current developments that have an impact on CLD partners. These conversations are aimed at representatives from local authorities, national agencies and third sector organisations.
For more information click here.
This new addition to the Studying Scotland website was launched at SLF 2013. Practitioners will find it useful if they are preparing teaching materials for the 2014 Year of Homecoming.
Learning journeys for the broad general education covering all eight curriculum areas will become available in the near future. This first release has learning journeys on historical figures David Livingstone, Robert the Bruce, John Muir and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Contemporary inspirational Scots include Paul Lawrie, Evelyn Glennie, Theresa Breslin and Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.
Click here for the resource.
Education Scotland has been working with teachers and learners across Scotland to capture the developing narrative of how devices are being used to support learning and teaching. As more and more schools introduce the use of devices, including bring your own device (BYOD), it is important to ensure they have access to resources that can help inform the effective use of this technology to maximise impact on learning.
Yesterday, Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, launched the Learning with Devices site a blog which includes rich content drawn from the practice of schools who have kindly agreed to participate. Our partners XMA, who are delivering the National Framework for Devices for Education, have also contributed, and the site will continue to develop and grow over time.
To find out more, visit the Learning with Devices blog today.
Education Scotland has announced the launch of the Learning Experiences Catalogue which aims to develop a sustainable programme of relevant, engaging and challenging learning experiences for children and young people aged 3–15 within a broad general education.
Learning experiences have been designed to support children and young people to learn to create, collect, code, animate, bake, garden, build, tell stories all set within contexts and many of them are interdisciplinary.
The catalogue provides learners with a brief description of each learning experience which they can read or can be read to them by clicking the audio file beside the LearnCat icon. Graphics have been designed to support learners in understanding where the learning will take place, which curriculum areas they will learn within and who they will learn with. Educators are provided with more information about each learning experience and planning guidance.
Each academic term a new collection of learning experiences will be launched. The autumn collection of learning experiences will be live from September 2013.
Explore the Learning Experiences Catalogue today.
Remember to mark International Literacy Day and join us on Glow to celebrate literacy for all ages.
We are asking all those working in literacy in Scotland with children, young people and adults to come together through Glow to celebrate with storytelling, film and creativity. We want to learn from each other and share our literacy practices so we are asking those who are more familiar with Glow to invite other learning groups to celebrate with them.
After the summer we will be showing you on Glow how to make our origami owl, offering some ideas for creative literacy and ways to get involved in the event.
Click here for information and resources.
Registration is now open for this year’s Scottish Learning Festival (SLF), which takes place on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September in the SECC, Glasgow.
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.
In addition, there will be the keynotes from the following international renowned speakers:
As well as round table discussions led by:
The full programme of keynotes and seminars along with details of the range of additional activities are available on the SLF website.
Finding their Voice: Engaging teenagers with poetry and debate through rap and performance
3-18 Curriculum Impact Reviews: Creativity 3-18
Launch of Education Scotland’s Building Capacity for Continuous Improvement strategy
Global Citizenship – Bringing It All Together
Learning experiences through Glow – Partnership working
Moving image education: Screening Shorts
Expressive arts: What’s on the third horizon?
English language class arts exhibition project: East Kilbride
Short & sweet: Short films as a route to developing modern foreign languages
For 2013, we have chosen four simple acts, which we think are great ways for the pupils in your school to get involved. They fit in perfectly with Curriculum for Excellence,the theme of heritage for Refugee Week Scotland 2013, and are great fun too!
In this Glow Meet students will be able to cook along with a Scottish Refugee Council representative. The dish will be a simple recipe from another country. As well as baking the dish, students will learn about the country the dish comes from.
Click here to find out more.
13 May, 10.00 am
The ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience takes place over 4 weeks and is aimed at second level learners. It comprises of 4 Glow TV broadcasts and a set of supporting learning experiences which will be shared via the Look Capture, Create Glow group.
Click here to sign up for this event (glow username required)
The next publication in the popular series of CfE Briefings is now available on the Education Scotland website and is titled Progression from the Broad General Education to the Senior Phase, Part 3: Curriculum Planning at the Senior Phase.
This latest addition to the series explores the ways in which schools are changing the curriculum at the Senior Phase and how they are building progressively on the 3-15 Broad General Education (BGE). It should be read alongside CfE Briefings 6 and 7.
The events in this calendar are celebrations, awareness days and action weeks covering topical issues relevant for schools. The calendar includes details of websites and support materials related to each event. These resources can assist in planning activities for learners.
Events in March include Climate week (4-10 March), World Book Day (7 March), International Women’s Day (8 March) and Commonwealth Day (11 March).
