October 7, 2015
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Comments Off on Active and Co-operative Learning; Is it effective?
Personally I am a huge supporter of active learning and co-operative working.I feel that active lessons through things such as play or investigating and exploring are much more effective for children rather than the teacher standing infront of the class dictating to them. I believe active learning is effective because when it comes to a time in […] Continue reading
October 4, 2015
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Comments Off on World Wide Wondering
Plato believed that the man who explores the wider world can experience a more fulfilling life; his allegory on the Cave providing an educational philosophy striving for justice and the creation of a just world. The concept of dialogical teaching, disrupting a pupil’s grasp of a subject to show them how to engage in agonistic […] Continue reading
October 4, 2015
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Comments Off on Danger Below
There are a lot of us that are scared or nervous when we are confronted with a large body of water. Is this because we are afraid of what could be in the water or is it just that we aren’t confident about swimming? Whether you are scared of water or not, everyone needs water […] Continue reading
October 3, 2015
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Comments Off on Why 1 +2 approach is hugely beneficial to future generations
The Scottish Government have introduced a new way for young learners to develop another language. The 1 +2 approach aims to give the children more opportunity in future life. The approach is slowly being implemented into schools, and should be fully integrated by 2020. The number 1 language will be the child’s mother tongue, English in […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on Blackboard to Glow Transition
After our ICT lecture with Derek on the ePortfolio transition to the VLE Blackboard to Glow Blogs, I have decided to blog the changes. Last year in MA1 we had a bit of a disastrous time using blackboard for our ePortfolio, the lack of engagement with the ePortfolio showed because of this. The blackboard ePortfolio […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on Active Learning In Mathematics
In my experience as a practitioner, and from my MA1 placement, I tried to teach as many maths lessons as I could in order to increase my confidence. I had no previous experience teaching maths and it was a daunting experience to say the least. However, after taking numerous lessons with different, my confidence grew […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on To assess or not to assess ?
The message of Child at the Centre (www.educationscotland.gov.uk) is clearly an easy one to pick up on and one that anybody working with children will be familiar with, albeit it being a tool for the early year’s workforce in self-evaluation it also embraces the essence of what educators should be doing within early years. […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on This is a test post on 1+2 model of language
This is were children learn two languages in addition to their own mother tongue. The first language will be learnt through Primary 1, and the second additional language from Primary 5-7. The second additional language may not be learn to the high standard of the first. Local authorities work with schools to address the organizational and […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on 1+2, the European Approach.
The 1+2 is a new initiative that is being rolled out to all Scottish schools by 2020. 1+2 explained by Education Scotland. The approach is based on the European Union’s approach to teaching language. A child will enter school aged 4-5 years with a beginning language (e.g English) and be introduced to a new language […] Continue reading
October 2, 2015
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Comments Off on My Educational Philosophy
I value education as it has the opportunity to support and guide children through their learning and development with the aim of producing confident, independent individuals who are able to contribute effectively to society and the economy. Many people have differing views on the purpose of education. My belief is that its primary role is […] Continue reading
September 27, 2015
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Comments Off on What do you see?
So philosophy was something I’d never touched on in any great detail. It had always scared me a little, with the open ended answers and taxing questions of such great depth. Friday’s lecture was a smorgasbord of interesting tales and insightful theories. I decided to look a bit more into Maxine Greene, see how her […] Continue reading
September 24, 2015
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Comments Off on STEM cpd (Part 2)
This evening I attended the second part of the STEM cpd, following on from last week’s visit to the Verdant works. This time we had the opportunity to try out an activity or learning idea that we might use with a class. I chose to make a loom: I was able to try out some of […] Continue reading
September 17, 2015
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Comments Off on Reflecting on STEM cpd
This evening I was fortunate enough to attend a cpd course held at the Verdant Works which encouraged us to explore the possibilities of this setting for STEM based learning and lessons. The course was open to a wide range of teaching professionals including postgrads and high school teachers and so this was a good […] Continue reading
July 7, 2015
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Comments Off on Working with Minecraft
Some years ago I became aware of a new game that was virally spreading via the digital jungle drums of our young people – that game was called Minecraft. I had noted that it was creeping through on my Twitter feed quite a lot and when I chatted with my friends’ 12 yr old son […] Continue reading
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