Nesta is organising a series of One Day Digital- CPD events for teachers interested in Digital Making. The sessions take place next Saturday 23 November at the School of Informatics in Edinburgh University. For details click here .
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Game on Scotland – Glow TV events
GOS – Literacy Learning Zone
29 October 2013, 10.00
Game On Scotland and the Literacy team of Education Scotland will present an exciting hour of challenges and fun around the Commonwealth Games. In conjunction with a teacher form West Dunbartonshire learners will engage in a number of stimulating activities using the Games as a context. The session will be interactive and no preparatory work is required. The target audience for this event is pupils Levels 2 and 3.
Find out more about this Glow TV series on the Game on Scotland blog
Food for Thought fund event and project update
Food for Thought is a national programme and fund managed by Education Scotland which aims to build capacity and confidence to improve learning and teaching within food education.
To date, 61 projects have been funded via the Food for Thought: Education Fund giving practitioners scope to explore food education across Curriculum for Excellence. Participating schools are required to work in partnership with a local business and to connect with national initiatives such as the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
For an overview of these projects and summary descriptions of a selection of them, download the following document:
Food for Thought Education Fund Information
Participating practitioners and those interested in applying in the next funding round (to be announced in early November) are invited to attend a forthcoming event:
Food for Thought: Education Fund Monitoring and Support Event
Friday 1st November at Tollcross Swimming Pool, Glasgow
Download the event invitation here: Food for Thought event
One Day Digital for Teachers
Digital Creativity CPD
Nesta, the UK’s innovation charity, are running a day’s CPD on digital creativity for teachers so they can teach young people the digital skills they will need in the future. Teachers can learn website development, computer animation, character design, video editing, app development, visual programming and how to design and print 3D objects. Teachers will get support materials on the day so they can use the skills they have learned back in the classroom with their pupils.
Nesta are working with a range of partners including CoderDojo, Mozilla, RunRev and Maklab to make sure that teachers attending get a real feel for how these technologies work and get a chance to work hands-on with them over the day so they are able to pass that on to their pupils.
The event is on Saturday 23 November at the University of Edinburgh. For more information and to reserve place go to onedaydigital.eventbrite.com
Nominations now open for the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2014
Taking place on the evening of 7 February 2014 in the Barbican’s newly refurbished Garden Room & Conservatory, the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2014 will celebrate the work of those in the music education industry. Held in conjunction with Music Education Expo 2013, the inaugural event presented 9 awards to very deserving individuals Categories There are 11 award categories this year as follows:
To find out more about the criteria for each category, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/award-categories Nominations Nominations close on 7 November 2013, and the finalists will be announced on 18 November 2013 via the Expo social network sites and in the December issue of Music Teacher magazine. To make a nomination, please visit www.musiceducationexpo.co.uk/nominate, download an application form and send the completed form to music.teacher@rhinegold.co.uk. Anyone is eligible to make a nomination; you can even nominate yourself! |
Inspired? Get Writing! Creative Writing Competition 2013/2014
Enjoy writing but need that little bit of inspiration and a goal to get started?
Why not enter this year’s National Galleries Inspired? Get writing! competition? You can write in prose or poetry about anything that has inspired you from our permanent collection: drawings; paintings; prints; sculpture; photography; installation. There are five categories for school pupils and adults. Four volumes of Inspired? Get writing! have been published, featuring winners from previous years, so you can check out the standard. For full details download the rules. There is also a resource pack which you might find helpful.
There are 5 categories:
• Under 12 years
• 12 – 14 years
• 15-18 years
• Adults prose
• Adults poetry
Entries should be submitted by Friday 17 January 2014. Results of the competition will be announced by Thursday 17 April 2014.
Dance CPD – online survey for teachers
YDance is conducting some research into CPD needs to help inform their activities. They are hoping to reach out to new audiences so would appreciate the help of the Creative Learning Networks.
YDance are inviting primary and secondary teachers to complete a short survey on their website: http://www.ydance.org
UK Safer Internet Centre – E-safety briefing events
After holding a major E-safety Live event in Edinburgh last year, the UK Safer Internet Centre is coming back to Scotland to deliver free e-safety briefings in May. The briefings are aimed at teachers and all other professionals working with children and young people, such as, social workers, early years workers, youth workers, police officers, etc.
The sessions are two hours long and have information around internet safety – new online technologies and risks, updates on available tools and resources, latest research and developments.
Dates and venues:
14 May am – Edinburgh
14 May pm – Glasgow
15 May am – Perth
15 May pm – Fife
16 May – Inverness
For more information and to register go to www.esafetylive.com
V&A at Dundee Teachers’ Survey
The V&A at Dundee invites primary and secondary school teachers from across Scotland to take part in a survey which will help them shape their education programme for the organisation.
V&A at Dundee’s aim is to offer a programme which will encourage interdisciplinary practice and learning, covering a wide range of Curriculum for Excellence areas. For example, a session looking at Hollywood Costume might discuss the use of costume design to represent particular faiths and debate issues of potential stereotyping, or how people of different faiths are represented in film genres. A session looking at Green Design would explore moral issues about climate change and sustainability.
If you’d like to participate through the online survey, please click on the following link: http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=136327212796&SCE=3
If clicking on the link does not work, please copy and paste the address into your browser.
GTCS launches revised Professional Standards
A suite of revised Professional Standards for teachers was launched by GTC Scotland this week.
The revised Standards which will replace the current four Standards in August 2013 are:
- The Standards for Registration (incorporating the Standard for Provisional Registration and the Standard for Full Registration)
- The Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning
- The Standards for Leadership and Management (incorporating the Standard for Middle Leadership and the Standard for Headship).
