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Challenge, CPD, Creative practitioners, Learning, News, Opportunities

Won’t make the Scottish Learning Festival???

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Then go to Teachmeet- The Scottish Learning Fringe instead!

TeachMeet – teachers sharing ideas with teachers

What is TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe?

The Scottish Learning Festival is great. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find out about what’s going on, have your thinking stretched and network with colleagues from across the country, and beyond. However, it’s midweek. Many classroom teachers struggle to make it to SLF as they’re too busy teaching classes! And anyway, in Scotland a festival is not really a festival unless it has a fringe festival. Enter, TeachMeet Scottish Learning Fringe

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Challenge, CPD, Education Scotland, Events, Learning, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, SQA

Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!

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The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website. 

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.

In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.

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.

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CPD, Early Years, News, Opportunities

CPD – Early Years

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Learning about Scotland in the Early Years, Saturday 19 May, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

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The study of Scotland is right at the heart of Curriculum for Excellence. This conference will provide an opportunity to develop practitioners’ understanding of the renewed emphasis on learning about Scotland and how we can enrich the learning experience for our youngest children.

Keynote speakers:

• Liz Niven – an award-winning poet who writes in English and Scots
• Juliet Robertson – one of Scotland’s leading education consultants, specialising in learning and play outdoors
• Dr Donald Smith – Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, as well as a novelist, poet, playwright and storyteller.

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. 

CPD, Learning, Opportunities, Primary schools

Calling all primary 3 & 5 teachers!

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Mandy Powell, Institute of Education, University of London is looking for friendly inexperienced (re media education) Primary 3 & 5 teachers interested in using popular media culture in the classroom to pilot drafts of units of work being prepared for publication in the autumn. The units are being developed now and would be used over one to three days in the classroom. The feedback from teachers will influence the shape of the published resources. Anyone volunteering to try them out will ‘earn’ a free set of published materials for the school.

If you are interested in participating in this trial please contact Mandy Powell M.Powell@ioe.ac.uk<mailto:M.Powell@ioe.ac.uk.

CPD, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Technologies

Association for Media Education in Scotland

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CPD- upper primary and secondary

Places still available

This day school for upper primary and secondary teachers and FE lecturers will screen Hugo 3D atCineworld Edinburgh. Lunch and afternoon sessions will take place at the nearby Haymarket Premier Inn Touchbase.
Dr Pasquale Iannone of Edinburgh University, regular contributor to Radio 4’s The Film Programme and Radio Scotland’s Movie Café, will talk about the place of George Méliès’ and 3D in movie history.There will also be presentations showing how the film and source book can be used as a stimulus for teaching and learning in the CfE as well as SQA NQs. All files used during the day will be provided in digital format

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