September 12, 2018
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I strongly feel that teaching is in my blood. My family has been passionate about education through many generations. I am positive this has made me decide to pursue a career in teaching to follow in the footsteps of these very inspiring family members, but also has influenced my affinity with children. Due to my […]
September 12, 2018
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When I was young, my teacher asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her I would be a builder. She smiled and asked “why?”. Now all these years later I am faced with the same question. I want to work in education because I was inspired by my teachers growing […]
September 12, 2018
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From a young age, I was inspired by my primary teachers to pursue a career in education and since then, teaching has become a profession I am immensely passionate about. I have always believed primary teaching to be the correct career choice for me, and this has been confirmed during the various work experience opportunities […]
September 12, 2018
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There are many experiences I’ve had that have inspired me to be a teacher. I knew that I loved teaching after doing my work experience as I got to see the children develop new skills, build their confidence and learn new things – I found it very rewarding. I was able to observe teaching strategies and […]
September 12, 2018
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September 12, 2018
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Welcome to blogs.glowscotland.org.uk – Glow Blogs. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
September 11, 2018
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Before every P.E lesson, you need to perform a warm-up with your class to prevent strained muscles. Choosing the right warm-up activity for your activity can be difficult. Some may think that any old game of tag will warm everyone up, but is this relevant to the sport your are about to teach? Does it […]
September 9, 2018
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Exercise 3 Educational trends are constantly changing with a major emphasis on how children are taught. In the 1960’s the traditional way of teaching involved things such as memorisation, same content for all, teacher centred, academic intelligence, closed classrooms and machine-scored tests. Now the IB focuses a lot on being child-centred, student choice, range of skills […]
September 9, 2018
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Reflective Activity 1: making links between the IB curriculum and CfE. The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a programme of education which covers children from the ages of 3 to 19. Like the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) programme which covers children from age 3 to 18, the IB holds various aims. The aims of the IB … Continue reading IB Introductory Unit →
September 8, 2018
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What is an International Baccalaureate (IB) education? The IB Organisation have formed their educational programmes to ensure that all learning is student centred, challenging, with a strong emphasis on human values. These programmes focus on ten core values which are hoped to be seen in an IB student. Through these values, it is hoped that […]
September 8, 2018
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Reflective Activity 1 How do the IB aims align with the main aims of CfE? The aims of CfE focus on providing pupils with not just the knowledge but also the skills and attributes they need to develop into responsible citizens. This aligns with IB in their aim to create pupils who are “active and […]
September 5, 2018
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Exercise 2 The IB’sten core values are; inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open minded, caring, risk takers, balanced and reflective which can be compared and contrasted to the Curriculum for Excellence’s four capacities of; Successful learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens and Effective Contributors. Although the IB may be more specific in terms of what they […]
September 4, 2018
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The Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the IB has a lot of similarities in terms of encouraging self-reliant learning as CfE. There are some slight differences in curricular areas however. The PYP curricular areas are as follows: Language Mathematics Science Social Studies Arts Personal, Social, and Physical Education These curricular areas seem to be a […]
September 3, 2018
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Trends in education and they way in which children and young people are taught in schools is constantly evolving, and has changed a fair bit in recent years. Teaching and learning used to be centred around test scores and strict academic ability, with very little flexibility within learning methods to allow children to achieve to […]
September 3, 2018
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The Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) has four main capacities, which are as follows: Successful Learners – encouraging students to reach their highest possible standards of personal achievement by being open to new ways of thinking/learning, and to be motivated and enthusiastic about their own learning. Successful Learners are able to use communication, literacy, numeracy […]
September 3, 2018
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Similarities and differences of PYP and CfE – IB’s Primary years programme (PYP) focuses on the development of the whole child. It aims to help prepare students to become active and caring life long learners taking part in the world around them showing respect towards themselves and others. IB’s PYP is taught from ages 3 […]
September 2, 2018
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Upon initial research into the International Baccalaureate (IB), it seems very clear to me that the main mission of the programme is to help shape children and young people into caring, respectful, and knowledgeable individuals who will be able to work seamlessly with people from all over the world without barriers such as language or […]
September 1, 2018
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August 31, 2018
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Wow! What a Year that was. It has been a long time since I sat down and wrote a blog post but today has left me empowered, positive and passionate and I just had to share. I am now in … Continue reading →
August 30, 2018
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In the 1960’s traditional educational trends included a bigger focus on teacher centred teaching, where classrooms where more closed with a more didactic teaching approach which could come across as very patronising with only a right or wrong answer. In this situation pupils learned more by memorising facts and working from textbooks. Pupils were assessed […]
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