November 9, 2016
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Comments Off on Personal and Professional Values and Commitment- online unit 3
This task asked me to look at my own personal values and how they motivated me to choose this career path. Questions like this are never easy for me……having to look beneath my first response I give when people ask me ‘why do you want to be a teacher?’. However, I see the importance in […] Continue reading
November 8, 2016
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Comments Off on Equality v Equity (Part 2)
In an earlier blog post ( https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/mmkeportfolio/2016/09/20/equity-and-equality-the-difference/ ), I said that equality is not the same as equity: which it is not. But since this blog post I have discovered a new third option (in Vics values class today), and it is that there doesn’t always have to be a choice about if someone is being treated […] Continue reading
November 4, 2016
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Comments Off on Professional Standards Workshop
On Tuesday 1st November, we took part in a workshop which encouraged us to look at the standards for teaching which can be found on the General Teaching Council Scotland website. Firstly, we looked at the four main areas: Social Justice Integrity Trust and Respect Professional Commitment We sorted a variety of statements from the […] Continue reading
November 4, 2016
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Comments Off on I’m not a Poet and I do Know it!
Poetry is something which was very much ruined for me in Secondary School. Picking them apart line by line took away the enjoyment and the excitement. However, before the preparation for Standard Grades and Highers, when I was back in Primary School I really enjoyed poetry. Every year we spent time looking at Scots Poems and […] Continue reading
November 3, 2016
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Comments Off on Football and Numbers
On further reflection of numbers in football, I am going to attempt in using my skills as a football referee to explain some maths in football that even I hadn’t thought about. Something that is apparent when reviewing these numbers in football is that the preference of measurements has changed over time since football began, […] Continue reading
November 2, 2016
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Comments Off on Disabilities and Mental Health.
For me, mental health and disabilities is a topic that is always close to my heart. Since I was 14, I found a love for volunteering, and not just volunteering for Cancer Research or big charity campaigns, but I volunteered for local disability charities. The first time I ever volunteered it was for a fantastic […] Continue reading
November 1, 2016
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Comments Off on I HATE MATHEM… Oh actually it’s not that bad!
Primary 5… some dreary day in mid-November. Maths test. The dread I felt when the teacher uttered the words the moment we came back into the classroom from morning break have never left me. I would not say I ‘fear’ maths however, it genuinely makes me feel uneasy. I think the main reason for this […] Continue reading
October 21, 2016
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Comments Off on Eins, zwei, drei…
German is a language I am familiar with. I am by no means fluent in it but I have been exposed to it throughout my school career. By primary 6 I was being taught the basics and I continued with my learning until S4. The problem was that when I transitioned into high school my prior […] Continue reading
October 21, 2016
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Comments Off on Changing the World
I stumbled across this video on the ol’ internet and thought it would be a great thing to share with everyone. There are some really powerful statements and messages here and I would highly recommend the watch. Enjoy, it’s magic. Continue reading
October 17, 2016
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Comments Off on Chat Racism, Chat Sexism
In May of this year, a young African-American videogame streamer was subject to a barrage of racist abuse in the chat stream that runs alongside the video footage of his game. He was competing in a videogame festival in the USA, playing Hearthstone, an electronic card game for two opposing players. He made it all […] Continue reading
October 12, 2016
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Comments Off on My Peer Education Story
As an avid Girlguider I was delighted to get a place on the Peer Education training course last weekend. Peer Education is Girlguiding UK’s innovative programme that trains members of The Senior Section (14-25 year olds) to empower themselves and others to make a difference in the lives of girls throughout the UK through different “training […] Continue reading
October 11, 2016
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Comments Off on Quelle est le date ton anniversair
This song pretty much sums up my memory of learning a modern foreign language (MFL) at primary school. We learned it until we were blue in the face, and then … Continue reading → Continue reading
October 10, 2016
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Comments Off on The complex matter of Gender
Gender. Not too long ago, all over the world, the answer to “What is gender?” would without a doubt be ‘Male and Female’. To this day, for many people, the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ are used interchangeably, and thus incorrectly. As we have come to learn, the issue goes way beyond these two boxes. So […] Continue reading
October 9, 2016
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Comments Off on First day of #UoDTransitionEY
Last Wednesday marked my first day going into a nursery placement. During this year at the University of Dundee I and a 7 other training teachers have been given the opportunity to go out into a nursery setting in Dundee prior to our formal placement this coming March. This is for a research project proposed by 3 of […] Continue reading
October 8, 2016
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Comments Off on Education ?
This post is really in response to a comment left on my previous blog post Comenius to John Swinney and all that in between.(thanks Richard, glad someone reads them !) It really got me thinking about the deeper meaning behind education … Continue reading → Continue reading
October 7, 2016
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Comments Off on Comenius to John Swinney and all that in between!
Having had a break from blogging for quite a few months, mainly due to time constraints and most certainly not for the lack of things to blog about. I felt that now would be a good time to restart. There … Continue reading → Continue reading
October 5, 2016
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Comments Off on My eyes are open
I have really enjoyed the last few Values lectures on Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Its had me thinking in ways that I hadn’t considered before and has also just genuinely had me interested. Apart from the 9am starts and the 2 hour seating periods of course. “”All human beings belong to a single species and […] Continue reading
October 2, 2016
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Comments Off on GIRFEC – The debate on the Named Person
In this evaluative post I am hoping to reflect on Thursday’s class debate and come to my own conclusion on the issue. GIRFEC (Getting it right for every child) is built on 3 main aspects. The wellbeing wheel, The Named Person and the Child Plan. While I could sit and talk about GIRFEC all day there is one key area I […] Continue reading
September 29, 2016
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Comments Off on “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
When I was younger, primary 5 age to be exact, I had a really influential teacher who taught me my first understandings of segregation and racism, particularly at the time of Martin Luther King Jr’s existence. It was a time, the first time, that I saw the harrowing, poignant image of the Ku Klux Klan. I […] Continue reading
September 28, 2016
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Comments Off on Values: Self, Society and The Professions Workshop
Our first values workshop started out as what seemed like a normal group task. We were randomly split up into four groups, I was put into group one. We were given an envelope which contained a variety of resources including rubbers, pens, etc.. Little did our group know, that we had been given the best […] Continue reading
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