In this video Morna Matthews from the Learning and Teaching Development Team in West Lothian explains how their team created a Glow Group to help with ICT CPD across West Lothian. Morna also discusses the benefits of this offering suport in this way.
Category Archives: Technologies
Using a blog to communicate between schools
In this video listen to how Karlie Robinson from Bridgened Primary in West Lothian used a blog with her P6/7 class to communicate with a school in Orkney.
Karlie and her pupils presented on this project at the Scottish Learning Festival 2011, to find out more click here.
Interdisciplinary Learning
In this video listen to how Karlie Robinson from Bridgened Primary in West Lothian used the Interdisciplinary topic of Orkney to Curriculum Areas and how Technologies for Learning were used throughout the topic.
Karlie and her pupils presented on this project at the Scottish Learning Festival 2011, to find out more click here.
The Senior Phase – Curriculum Structures
I am investigating what schools are considering with regards option choice in the Senior Phase. My own school is considering 6 options throughout S4/5/6 with 5 periods per option. I would like to know what other schools around the country are considering (could you please also indicate which local authority your school belongs to).
E-Portfolios and Blogging
e portfolios and blogging
Learner’s journey through Curriculum for Excellence – practical examples of school approaches to assessing progress and reporting to parents. In this video Olivia Wexelstein from Wellwood Primary, Fife Council, demonstrates how e-portfolios, blogging and Glow Groups are being used as a form of recording assessment and achievement both at home and in school.
Early Years Storyroom
In this video Margo will share with us how she uses Glow Meet as an Early Years Storyroom. This involves older pupils reading their own story or published stories to nursery and primary school early years learners. It not only supports the development of children’s learning in literacy and English, but also provides transition opportunities and contributes to building the four capacities. It can be replicated within a school, cluster or authority.
To find out more about this project click here to read the Glow Cookbook.
For more information contact Margo at margo.kerr@wled.org.uk
Assessment Weblinks
Click here for the LTS assessment home page and to log on to the National Assessment Resource
What are the broad features of assessment in the curriculum areas?
Expressive Arts
Health and Wellbeing
Literacy across learning
Literacy and English
Literacy and Gaidhlig
Mathematics
Modern Languages
Numeracy across learning
RME
RCRE
Sciences
Social Studies
Technologies
Peer assessment in Art and Design
For this case study our pupils and staff practiced peer and self assessment. The curriculum areas covered in this study were: Expressive arts, primary and secondary
Clarifying the learning – sharing standards in Modern Languages
These PowerPoint presentations aim to raise awareness of other languages frameworks (in this case the Languages Ladder and CEFR) which seek to describe learning experiences and outcomes at beginner level and then to track progression in each of the language skills.
Early Years Web links
Developing a Documentation Approach – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/d/documentation/aims.asp?strReferringChannel=earlyyears&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-619333-64
A Child-Led Summer Programme –
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/c/childledsummerprogramme/aims.asp?strReferringChannel=earlyyears&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-619333-64
