| Testimony is Education Scotland’s new high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. It has been designed for use by both staff and senior phase pupils. |
| Testimony illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith. The material includes the personal testimonies of some well-known individuals alongside the stories of ordinary members of faith communities. |
| It can be used to support learning within the new SQA award in Religion, Belief and Values and also supports the development of skills for learning, life and work. |
| Find out more by visiting the Testimony web resource. |
At Amina MWRC we are passionate about empowering and inspiring women, spreading knowledge of women’s rights and promoting positive images of Muslim women. Last year 19 secondary schools across Scotland were visited to allow young people the opportunity to discuss Islam and Muslims. Staggeringly over 70% of secondary school young people associated words such as “Terrorist”, “Foreign”, “Oppressed” and “Uneducated” to Muslim women.
Responding to this, ‘I Speak for Myself’ was born.
From November 2011 until February 2012 we have engaged with over 300 Muslim women from Dumfries and Galloway to Elgin and all the major cities and towns in between. For more information about our Roadshow click here.
September 2012 will see the launch of our national campaign ‘I Speak for Myself’ at the Scottish Parliament. The campaign will exhibit over a hundred of the messages captured during our roadshow and aims to tackle misconceptions and common stereotypes about Muslim women, thus reducing inequality and sexual discrimination not only within the Muslim community but also in the wider society.
http://www.ispeakformyself.co.uk/
The current revision of the GTCS Professional Standards aims to provide a coherent framework of standards to support teachers at all stages in their careers. Previous Glow sessions have looked at the content of each individual standard and their value to Scottish teachers.
This final session will be led by the Education Team at GTC Scotland and will look at the common elements across the standards – the core values, leadership and sustainability and ask if the revised standards succeed in providing a helpful, career-long standards framework for the teaching profession in Scotland.
Sign up and join us in Glow TV on Thursday 27th September at 4pm.
If you have missed any of the other three sessions; Standards for Registration, The Standard for Career Long Professional Learning and Standards for Leadership and Management then you can view the recordings of these events in Glow TV’s Watch Again section.
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