The Scottish Learning Festival is free to attend and everyone with an interest in education is welcome to register. This year the programme has around 65 seminars including spotlight sessions offering a fantastic line up of speakers, debates and opportunities for professional learning and networking.
Our programme will once again be held in an amazing 3D virtual venue and you will be able to view the sessions anywhere from any device that has internet access.
You will need to register to access the virtual venue, but you don’t need to pre-register for sessions, all you need to do is explore the programme, decide what you’d like to attend and just join any session of your choice on the day.
Below is a STEM pathway curated for you over the two days of SLF 2022:
Wednesday 21 September 15:45 – 16:30
Teachers Making Effective Use of Digital to Enhance Learning
In this session, teachers will demonstrate how they have used digital to make their learning more engaging, their planning less time consuming and assessment more effective with tips and ideas to take back to your own classroom.
Erin Burns, Michelle Hardie, Lauren McIntyre
Thursday 22 September 12:30 – 13:15
Young STEM Leader – a collaborative approach to wider achievement
Join representatives from the Young STEM Leader programme at SSERC and Education Scotland’s STEM and Improving Gender Balance and Equalities teams for insight into how the Young STEM Leader programme is impacting learners in Primary and Secondary settings across the country by raising aspirations and providing leadership opportunities. Highlighting links with the STEM Nation Award programme and equity and equalities, this session is designed to show how STEM learning can effectively challenge stereotypes and positively impact on the learner journeys of all children and young people.
Jamie Menzies
Thursday 22 September 15:45 – 16:30
Making Maths Count at Coupar Angus Primary School
Coupar Angus Primary School in Perth and Kinross aim to share their journey to ‘Make Maths Count’ in their school. Staff have worked together to participate in professional learning which has enabled them to place their learners at the centre of their plans for numeracy and maths improvement in their setting. Staff and pupils will share some of their thoughts about how they teach and learn in numeracy and mathematics and some of the changes undertaken in Coupar Angus to Make Maths Count.
Coupar Angus Primary School Perth and Kinross
Thursday 22 September 16:45 – 17:30
This is the Amazing World of Computing Science!
39,000 micro:bits rolled out to every school in Scotland! 17,000 learners joining live Code Alongs to send code into space, to save our planet and to improve our health and wellbeing! A national network of Computing Science Leaders across 32 LAs! There has never been a more exciting time to engage with Computing Science across the BGE curriculum.
Join our SLF seminar to hear about the contemporary computing science experiences and resources available and learn from practitioners showcasing their practice and the high level of engagement with learners.
Education Scotland and the National ELC & Primary Computing Science Leadership Network
Maker Space and STEAM – Taking Design Thinking into School
Allans Primary and Stirling High School are developing a progressive curriculum with curiosity, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, communication and compassion at the centre. Responding to changing societal and workplace needs, and inspired by design thinking – a method of problem solving using a range of skills, processes and mindsets – they hope to nurture pupils’ agency, skills and values enabling them to contribute positively to their communities and wider society now and in the future.
Hear how each school has developed learner led, creative learning through Maker Space and STEAM and how they hope to develop this further together.
Clare Hoare
