Working in partnership with VOCAL (the association for culture and leisure managers in Scotland) and the Scottish Government, Education Scotland has now published a final version of How good is our culture and sport? A quality improvement framework for culture and sport provision.
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Education Scotland would like to invite Secondary practitioners with experience across 3rd and 4th levels to create teaching and learning ideas to support Learning about Scotland. These resources will then be made available to all establishments on the Studying Scotland online resource.
We would like to engage with 12 secondary school practitioners to create resources across curriculum areas. This is to ensure that Learning about Scotland is embedded across the curriculum and becomes a natural part of the learning experience from the early years to the senior phase.
Practitioners will work with Education Scotland Development Officers to create the resources. The resources will show the attributes, capabilities and skills developed, including higher-order thinking skills, through the experiences and outcomes used. If you are interested in this opportunity then please register your interest.
The Literacy Team at Education Scotland is hosting a free conference for parents. Once children have mastered the basics of learning to read, many parents are concerned about how best to develop their child’s skills and encourage a love of books. The conference will support parents in helping children to successfully negotiate an information rich world and to become readers for life.
Click here to register for the event, or call Margaret McGuinness on 0141 282 5064.
Education Scotland has created a new resource on Political Literacy, for education practitioners working with community and school audiences. It provides information, materials, learning approaches, and links to many organisations relevant to democratic life in Scotland. Its coverage includes politics in daily life, a timeline of the development of the Scottish Parliament, and civil rights.
In a significant new development Education Scotland has now published the first two reports in a Curriculum Impact series that is designed to present a subject-by-subject picture of how children and young people are experiencing learning in different areas of the 3-18 curriculum across the country. These first two reports focus on the sciences and social studies. Setting a pattern for others that will follow, they provide subject-specific analysis and evaluation of current practice, based on a range of independent inspection activities, and they then go on to identify emerging innovative and thought-provoking practice, while highlighting important areas for development.
View the full report in the here.
Testimony is Education Scotland’s new high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. It has been designed for use by both staff and senior phase pupils. Testimony illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith. The material includes the personal testimonies of some well-known individuals alongside the stories of ordinary members of faith communities. It can be used to support learning within the new SQA award in Religion, Belief and Values and also supports the development of skills for learning, life and work.
Education Scotland has launched a new online resource, Passeport pour la Francophonie. The resource is aimed at supporting primary teachers, to provide stimulating and exciting learning experiences at second level and will develop skills of reading, writing, listening and talking.
The online resource provides suggestions for exploring the other curricular areas such as RME or maths and numeracy through the medium of French language and culture. Practitioners can use Passeport pour la Francophonie to enhance their professional learning both in terms of their own foreign language skills and developing innovative approaches to teaching a language. Learners will find that the activities bring languages to life by travelling through five different countries of the Francophonie. They will discover other cultures, meet children from around the world and gain an understanding and appreciation of their native language and culture
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/events/2012/eventgeneral_tcm4727005.asp
Education Scotland, in association with Scotland’s Colleges, is presenting this national conference on how well colleges and schools develop learners’ essential skills, building upon their prior experiences and preparing them for further learning or employment opportunities.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/readyforemergencies/about/artcompetition.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
Schools can take part in this competition to create pictures for a 14-month calendar. The calendar aims to communicate the importance of preparing for emergencies at home, in the community and in the car, and the easy steps that can be taken to do so.
Learners in primary and secondary schools are invited to design a picture that relates to one of the main themes, which have been categorised into topics.
For more information visit the Ready for Emergencies competition page and register today.
The Scottish Government has announced that Education Secretary Michael Russell has appointed the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder to convene an ICT Excellence Group to consider the future development of the schools’ intranet ‘Glow’.
The new ICT Excellence Group will draw on the experience and expertise of end-users, and educational technology experts to scope the long-term user-centred future of Glow.
The group members are as follows: Prof Muffy Calder, Prof Ian Sommerville, Prof Mike Sharples, Mr Ewan McIntosh, Mr Charlie Love, Prof Bill Buchanan, Mr Hamish Budge, Prof Jeff Haywood, Mr Neil Winton, Mr Tony Rafferty, Mr Fraser Speirs, Ms Jaye Richards Hill and Mr Martin Dewar who will facilitate the involvement of two school pupils in the group.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/07/schools05072012
http://www.engageforeducation.org/2012/07/glow-schools-it-excellence-group-set-up/
