Throughout October Luminate: Scotland’s Creative Ageing Festival will throw a spotlight on over 200 inspirational arts activities – many of them free – with, and for older people, as well as events for audiences and participants across the generations. Find out more here: http://tiny.cc/e0zzhw and a the Luminate website: http://www.luminatescotland.org/
Funding available for Author Visits
Scottish Book Trust provides funding to help bring a writer or illustrator to help with projects in schools, book groups, community learning groups and writers’ circles. Further information is available on the SBT website in the Live Literature Funding section.
Education Scotland’s Learning Blog
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NCLN at SLF 2012
Members of the NCLN are contributing to this year’s Scottish Learning Festival – ‘Creative Learning…Creative Thinking’ – in a number of ways, whether presenting on creative initiatives or sharing Creative Learning Network news. The programme includes the following:
Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers – Modern Apprentices and Student Councillor, Edinburgh
Showcasing Fife’s Creative Learning Network – Michelle Sweeney, Fife
What’s the Past got to do with us? – David Atherton, Aberdeenshire
Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme
Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Learning: The Aberdeen Arts Across Learning Festival – Jacky Hardare, Aberdeen City
Inspiring Creativity – Amy McLeod, Highland
Supporting Drama through Literacy – Learners with Mild to Severe and Complex Needs – Lesley Sloan, Dumfries & Galloway
Challenging Creativity Creatively – Linda Lees, Edinburgh
The Big Drum Experiment – Susanne Batchelor, Scottish Borders
Little Rabbit – Pauline Meikleham, Angus
Teachers Realising their Creative Potential – Jacky Hardacre, Aberdeen
Write a Song in 30 Minutes – Marco Rea, Stirling
To view the full Education Showcase programme click here
Dance and Social Inclusion Training, 21-24 August 2012
Dance United is running a four-day training course in Aberdeen from 21-24 August which looks at how to deliver high quality dance when working with challenging groups in the community.
This Stage 1 training course has been accredited by National Open College Network (NOCN) so course participants will be able to achieve recognition at level 3 in Social Inclusion Practice in Dance.
Click here to download course details: Dance United Training Course flyer
The course is organised by Citymoves, Aberdeen in partnership with Dance United.
Eric Booth meets with NCLN
On 20th June, the NCLN was privileged to have an exclusive session with US education consultant Eric Booth, hosted by Creative Scotland in Edinburgh.
Eric’s presentation was inspirational, providing the stimulus for a lively discussion which continued long after his departure.
Click here to download summary notes from this event: Eric Booth 200612
Click here to watch Eric’s keynote presentation at SLF 2010: http://bit.ly/Eric_Booth_SLF2010
Assessing Creativity
In Spring 2011, Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) commissioned the Centre for Real-World Learning (CRL) at The University of Winchester to undertake research to establish the viability of creating an assessment framework for tracking the development of young people’s creativity in schools.
After reviewing the literature on creativity and its assessment, and consulting expert practitioners, CRL created a framework for developing creativity in schools, and derived an assessment tool to trial in schools.
This tool comprised of 5 habits and 15 sub-habits of creativity:
- Inquisitive (wondering and questioning, exploring and investigating, challenging assumptions)
- Persistent (sticking with difficulty, daring to be different, tolerating uncertainty)
- Imaginative (playing with possibilities, making connections, using intuition)
- Collaborative (sharing the product, giving and sharing feedback, cooperating appropriately)
- Disciplined (developing techniques, reflecting critically, crafting and improving)
Through two separate field trials the research suggested that the framework was sufficiently distinct from existing approaches to creativity to be useful and that from a teacher point of view, the framework was both rigorous and plausible.
The principal findings were that:
- The concept of an assessment framework for creativity in schools is valid and relevant. There was a strong sense among teachers that our framework encompassed a learnable set of dispositions. There are strong grounds for now seeking to develop a more sophisticated prototype, of use to teachers and learners, to track the development of creativity in schools.
- The framework should initially focus on the 5-14 age range, although some practitioners may find it useful with younger and older pupils.
- The evidence suggests that the primary use of any assessment framework will be formative, supporting pupils to harness more of their creativity and helping teachers more effectively to cultivate creative dispositions in the young people they teach.
To find out more and to download the full report click here:
Higher Dance CPD
FOUR DAY INTENSIVE COURSE – Monday 15 until Thursday 18 October 9.30 – 4.30pm
This four day intensive training programme will cover all the elements involved in the Higher dance course. This course is highly practical in nature and aimed at dance specialists or individuals currently teaching or about to deliver the Higher dance course. Each day will focus on one of the different techniques to be covered and the participants will learn six different set dances contained within the SQA NABs. There will be time allocated to the written element with examples of students work and a practical session on the choreographic element focusing on use of themes, choreographic structure and choreographic devices.
Standard rate £70 per day or £240 for four days
Freelance artists / students £60 per day or £200 for four days
The course will be held at Inveralmond Community High School, Willowbank, Ladywell, Livingston EH54 6HN
Download more information and the booking form here:
Learning & Development with David Hughes Dance
David Hughes Dance is passionately engaged in presenting a comprehensive programme of education and outreach work to increase knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of modern dance theatre.
They offer high quality dance masterclasses, workshops and residencies for schools and colleges, working with young people and practitioners of all ages and levels of ability.
Find out more about David Hughes Dance at: http://www.davidhughesdance.co.uk
Download information about their educational programmes and tours here:
Jazz Education Conference
Take part in the first ever Scottish conference on jazz education.
For everyone involved in jazz education in Scotland – teachers, instrumental instructors, bandleaders, jazz musicians or organisers – the Scottish Jazz Federation (SJF) is running two one-day events with group discussions, presentations of teaching materials and expert speakers from Scotland and Europe.
Delegate one day fee – £25 including lunch and refreshments
The conference takes place on Friday 31st August at Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
The same programme is repeated on Saturday 1st September at The Ironworks in Inverness.
To book a place, click here
