The Creativity Portal has added links to a range of ‘Watch Again’ Glow Meets from this year’s creativity themed Scottish Learning Festival.
Seminars include:
Creativity – Experience it, Understand it, Teach it
Creativity… in Maths!?
Developing Storytelling through Games
You will need your Glow Login to view the films: Click here to watch again on Glow TV
The first of Edinburgh CLN’s 2012/13 Creative Conversations is on Monday 29th October at 4 for 4.30 till 5.30 with wine and canapes afterwards (venue to follow with confirmation of attendance) with Frank Crawford as this year’s first Creative Catalyst.
Frank is a former Chief Inspector (HMIe), forward thinker, innovator and enthusiastic biker. He has been centrally involved in the development of Scottish education and remains at the forefront of thinking. Frank will take a creative approach, sketching out ideas about meeting the demands of external evaluation, handling inspections, what self evaluation should really be and how we need to think about change and innovation. Frank is in great demand internationally so this is a great chance to catch up with him in Edinburgh.
As with all previous Creative Conversations, David Cameron will facilitate the discussion and you are invited to continue the conversations afterwards with Frank, David and colleagues over wine and canapes!
This will be a popular Creative Conversation – please get back to Linda Lees directly if you would like to attend. She will send full venue details and confirmation of your place.
Email: linda.lees@edinburgh.gov.uk
GTCS is planning to launch a professional recognition award for creativity and is looking for CLNs to help share the news in local authorities across Scotland. Applicants must have been teaching for two years to be eligible. GTCS are happy to be contacted directly with any queries about the award and the application process.
Contact:
Mairi McAra <Mairi.McAra@gtcs.org.uk> or
Glenise Borthwick <Glenise.Borthwick@gtcs.org.uk>
Please forward the following information to those you think may be interested:
Deadline for submissions Monday 3rd December 2012 to be eligible for the national award ceremony in this new category in the Scottish Parliament on the evening of January 29th 2013
Hundreds of teachers have had their knowledge and skills recognised and been awarded with a certificate in Professional Recognition. We want you to join the group now being awarded the new category of ‘Creativity’. This will include dance, music, visual art, creativity in science, drama. In fact creativity covers a huge range of subjects.
Professional recognition allows registered teachers to focus their CPD in particular areas of interest, and gain recognition for enhancing their knowledge and experience.
In order to gain Professional Recognition teachers need to demonstrate their professional knowledge and understanding in four key areas:
Click here to read more about each of the following:
Subject/Curriculum
Professional knowledge
Professional skills and abilities
Reflecting, reporting and sharing
The Framework for Professional Recognition explains in detail how teachers can gain Professional Recognition. It was established to help teachers develop their knowledge and skills and to ensure that they are able to gain the recognition they deserve.
There are many areas in which primary and secondary teachers can gain professional recognition. Creativity is just one area.
(Further details on our website www.gtcs.org.uk under ‘Professional Development’)
Steps in the application process
Before applying for Professional Recognition, applicants should follow these steps:
1. Carry out a personal self-evaluation
If eligible, you should undertake a personal self-evaluation to identify area(s) which you might wish to gain professional recognition.
2. Have a Professional Discussion with your manager
Once you have completed your self-evaluation, you should have a Professional Discussion with your manager/school/local authority/CPD co-ordinator to discuss your intention to work towards gaining professional recognition.
3. Complete your CPD programme
Now complete the CPD Programme agreed in your professional discussion, maintaining a profile following the Professional Action process.
4. Undertake a self-evaluation against the framework
Complete a Personal Evaluation against the Framework which will identify the knowledge/experience gained.
5. Discuss your submission with your manager
Your second Professional Discussion will see you discuss your professional recognition submission with your manager/school/local authority/CPD co-ordinator.
6. Apply for Professional Recognition
Download and complete our:
· Professional Recognition Application Form (PDF)
· Professional Recognition Application Form (Doc)
Place a copy of all the evidence noted in your application form in a portfolio
Your recommendation for professional recognition should be agreed and signed by your Headteacher.
Send your completed application to:
Professional Learning and Development Department
General Teaching Council for Scotland
Clerwood House
96 Clermiston Road
Edinburgh
EH12 6UT
CONTACTS
To discuss any aspect of Professional Recognition contact:
Professional Learning and Development Department
T: +44(0)131 314 6086
E: pld@gtcs.org.uk
http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/gameslegacy/2012/09/21/game-on-scotland/
In preparation for the new Games Legacy education programme ‘Game On Scotland’ developed around and beyond the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, a sign-up page is now available, allowing those who wish to do so to register their interest.
By registering you will be:
updated on the forthcoming Game On Scotland education programme
informed about accessing a range of unique opportunities associated with the Games.
In the meantime, watch this space for more information on this inspiring education programme and for your chance to become part of the Games and its legacy.
This month EIS will include a succinct leaflet in the Scottish Education Journal detailing the support and materials already available for CfE and what is planned across the year from the partners involved in CfE Implementation.
The leaflet demonstrates Education Scotland’s commitment to work with teachers, schools, other education settings and authorities across Scotland, providing advice and materials as the implementation of CfE continues.
Download the leaflet here:
Tapestry Partnership has launched a programme of Masterclasses taking place between November 2012 and September 2013 which offer examplars from Scotland and elsewhere of meaningful and lasting change in learning. If offers snapshots of approaches which are “making a difference” and where change is progressive and the direction for the future is ambitious and challenging.
The programme explores areas such as unlocking potential, improving schools, interdisciplinary learning, and making thinking visible. For more information download the programme here:
Creativity is the central theme running through September’s edition of TESS. Click on the following titles to view each article:
‘Creative sparks can fire up the curriculum’
Editor Gillian MacDonald highlights projects which are stimulating the imagination and encouraging new thinking in schools and local authorities.
Joan Parr, portfolio manager for education, learning and young people, Creative Scotland is featured, talking about the national drive for creativity across learning.
‘Step Forth into the Creativity Portal’
The new-look Creativity Portal is reviewed, including an overview of its new features and feedback from teachers using the site.
Project Dream, is a collaboration between City of Edinburgh’s Arts and Learning Team, the Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh schools in which teachers and pupils are coming off timetable to immerse themselves in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
‘There has to be a common problem and it has to be a genuine mystery’.
Tim Rollins
The symposium will take the collaborative working practice of Tim
Rollins and K.O.S and his statement about group motivation as a point of
departure to explore ideas about art and pedagogy
· How do you balance the learning agenda with quality art production
and process?
· What are the ethics of the social encounter in socially engaged art practice?
· Within the collective production context how is authorship
negotiated? (Is it relevant?)
· What role does inspiration and shared belief play in a learning
environment?
· Can models of collaborative production and learning thrive in
mainstream education systems?
The symposium will be chaired by Susan T. Grant, an artist and
independent arts manager who specialises in collaborative artworks in the public
realm.
Symposium contributors include Declan McGonagle, Director of the
National College of Art and Design Dublin; Marsha Bradfield from Critical
Practice; Katie Bruce, Producer/Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow and
Associate Artist Rachel Mimiec; Professor Neil Mulholland and Dan Brown
on Shift/Work; John Reardon and Johannes Maier of ArtSchool/UK; Rachel
Thibbotumunuwe, Hilary Nicol and Johnny Gailey, Artworks Scotland &
Talbot Rice Gallery partnership.
This is a free event with a sandwich lunch and refreshments provided.
Booking is essential. Contact info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk to book your
place.
The symposium has been made possible with support from the University
of Edinburgh’s Principal’s Fund and is a partnership with engage
Scotland.
Art, Society and Participation: Constructing the Larger Narrative will place arts in participatory settings in a wider social context by exploring current thinking around quality, value and ethics in this area of creative practice. It will invite practitioners to take part in a range of practical activities to reflect, build skills, knowledge and networks. The conference places Scotland on a wider international stage and celebrates the quality of arts taking place in participatory settings throughout Scotland.
Tickets:
£21 per day for self funded delegates
£41 per day for delegates being funded by an organisation
Delegates can attend one day or both days of the conference.
Keynote speakers:
Arlene Goldbard: New York born, but now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Arlene is a writer, speaker, consultant and cultural activist. She has addressed many academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organisations. Arlene is currently working on a new book about art’s public purpose.
Charles Chip McNeal: Director of Education at San Francisco Ballet. Charles is an award winning lecturer, choreographer and teacher working across artforms, with particular interest in social justice, multiculturalism, quality and ethics.
The conference will explore such things as:
To book your ticket for the conference, visit the Citz Box Office.
To stay up-to-date about the conference as well as all ArtWorks events and information sign up to the ArtWorks e-bulletin.
* European and UK presenters still to be confirmed.
Have a look at our new Creative Learning & Curriculum for Excellence advocacy leaflet. The leaflet gives an overview of the Creative Learning Network and Youth Music Initiative at Scottish Borders Council.
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