A half hour talk by John Cleese on what creativity looks like and how to make space for it. He draws upon psychological research and makes reference to some of the key themes to our current education thinking – persistence, gestation (time), making connections and how humour is somehow tied to it inextricably.
Type ‘John Cleese’ in the search box to find the film: http://creativityportal.org.uk/
Class Clips is part of the BBC’s Learning Zone website and contains more than 9,000 free video clips from BBC programmes ready to play in the classroom.
The clips have been specially selected to support teachers in all subjects and areas of the curriculum; they are safe and appropriate for use in a learning context. A search engine allows users to search by primary or secondary level and by subject or topic.
A ‘creativity’ search brings up a wealth of inspiring resources.
This new website focuses on French-speaking countries around the world. Angus, from Scotland invites you to join him on a journey as he travels to member courties of the Oranisation Internationale de la Francophonie and meets new friends.
Aude from France, Assouan from Egypt, Nyanga from Gabon, Menembe from Madagascar and Takakoto from Polynesia describe their daily lives, as well as the history and geography of the countries.
The website includes:
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/passeportfrancophone/index.asp
As of 10 December, all school staff will see the RM Unify interface when they log in to Glow. Pupils will then see the same shortly afterwards. This blog post is aimed at explaining the impact of this change for end users:
Child Centred Learning – A Pupil’s View, 20 November 2.00 pm: http://glo.li/U3fIbo
See also Glow Scotland blog post: http://blogs.educationscotland.gov.uk/glowscotland/2012/11/19/child-centred-learning-a-pupils-view/
Meet the pupils of Hill of Banchory Primary School in Aberdeenshire who are actively encouraged to take leadership in their own learning experience.
Creating a Culture of Empowerment – The Staff, 20 November 4.00pm: http://glo.li/U3fNM4
Following on from our earlier session with the pupils at Hill of Banchory Primary School you will now have an opportunity to hear from the staff about how they are developing a culture of empowerment within a school environment.
SCCYP – Am I getting it RIGHT? Series: 23 November.
An annual report to Scotland’s Children and Young People live from the Scottish Parliament.
Session 1, 10.00 am http://glo.li/RoGhFu
Session 2, 11.00 am http://glo.li/TPHTui
Session 3, 1.15 pm http://glo.li/TPI2hi
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
(Glow log-in and password required).
Get Scotland Dancing aims to encourage more people to get active and participate in dance. The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games, provided an unparalleled opportunity to raise the profile of dance as a creative, participative and physical artform. In support of this Scottish Government policy, Creative Scotland will invest £1.5 million across a four year period, creating an inclusive celebration of dance across Scotland, linking into the wider UK and marking Scotland’s place in the world.
Working with Scotland’s key dance organisations, Get Scotland Dancing will bring together professional and amateur dancers of all ages to dance in public spaces in our towns, villages and cities – bringing dance to the people and people to dance. We want to strengthen opportunities to participate in dance and create a lasting legacy for communities throughout Scotland.
Get Scotland Dancing: The Film This summer thousands of people across the UK, from professional to amateur dancers, young and old were involved in Big Dance 2012, the UK’s biggest celebration of dance as part of the push to Get Scotland Dancing.
For more information on how to get involved go to www.creativescotland.com/getscotlanddancing
A new professional learning community for Expressive Arts has just been started on Glow. The community will allow practitioners to engage in professional dialogue and share exciting and dynamic practice.
Use your Glow login to start sharing: http://bit.ly/artshome
Glow has a new early years community which aims to provide a forum where practitioners can connect with each other, share professional learning and resources and show how they are developing their practice.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2012/11/14/wise-up-wednesday-early-years-community/
Following the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 6 November and the work by Education Scotland in taking forward the recommendations of the Donaldson report, ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’, guidance on strengthened models of career-long professional learning has been published on Education Scotland’s online service.
This guidance is to support teachers to improve further their approaches to professional learning. It consists of advice, information, links to resources and reflective questions.
A downloadable PDF is available. To access the guidance, go to:
The report of the National Partnership Group (NPG) has been published on the Scottish Government website. The NPG has been working over the past year to take forward the recommendations in Graham Donaldson’s report on teacher education in Scotland, ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’. The NPG was chaired by Professor Richard Edwards (University of Stirling), Glenn Rodger (Scottish Borders Council) and Rachel Sunderland (Scottish Government) and its membership included key organisations in teacher education.
The NPG is making a number of proposals including the development of partnerships between local authorities and universities to support teacher education and an emphasis on masters level learning for teachers. The Cabinet Secretary has accepted all the proposals in the report.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/11/7834
Commenting on the National Partnership Group (NPG) report published by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Michael Russell, Education Scotland’s Chief Executive, Dr Bill Maxwell said:
“We at Education Scotland are pleased to see the publication of the National Partnership Group (NPG) report on teacher education, and the Scottish Government’s positive response to it.
Education Scotland staff have played a key role in the work of the NPG and, in fact, our report on good examples of positive progress with the implementation of ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’ has been published as an annex to the main report.”
