Presentations and documents tagged “scotlearnfest07”
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Joined-up working for education in travelling c...
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 1028 views
The seminar will demonstrate good practice in collaborative working between education, housing, health and social work colleagues, and include examples of experiential learning specific to Traveller communities and lifestyles to highlight t...
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Teacher researcher outcomes
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 627 views
The Teacher Researcher Programme operated by the General Teaching Council for Scotland has offered practitioners the opportunity to carry out action research into issues identified by the teachers themselves. This seminar [these seminars] w...
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E-Assessment through the SOLAR Project
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 653 views
This session will provide a hands-on experience of the e-assessments created by teachers and lecturers through the SOLAR project. In addition to allowing the opportunity to try out some of the assessments, delegates will also be offered a d...
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Problem Solving In The Collaborative Classroom
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 4141 views
This session will look at how to encourage a problem-solving approach which permeates all the outcomes rather than as a separate element. It will look at strategies to promote collaborative learning and how this can be used to create an atm...
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How Scottish Education compares in Internationa...
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 1117 views
Practitioners in the education field will be aware of the wide variety of measures of attainment used in the Scottish Education system. At national level the Scottish Survey of Achievement measures attainment at a number of stages during sc...
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Music for All
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 732 views
The Youth Music Initiative (YMI) has led to an explosion of music making opportunities across Scotland in the 4 years since its inception. The boldness of the Scottish Executive's intervention through the YMI provided an opportunity to shor...
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Scottish Teacher Induction Scheme
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 835 views
The Teacher Induction Scheme was introduced in 2002 to provide a structured programme of experience, continuous professional development and support for newly qualified teachers, wherever they might be placed across Scotland. The Scheme see...
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Leadership and Collegiality
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 587 views
Leadership and collegiality are currently two of the key concerns in Scottish Education. In some establishments the concepts have an easy interface but in many they are seen as representing conflicting approaches. Leadership as a concept, o...
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Leadership and Continuing Professional Development
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 917 views
Since the McCrone Agreement there has been a strong focus on the development of leadership in Scotland’s schools. This seminar will explore how teachers are developing leadership skills through CPD and career progression related to the Prof...
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International Visits
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 438 views
More and more teachers in Scotland are taking up international education opportunities helping to prepare their pupils for a globalised world, and enhancing their own professionalism.
This seminar brings together teachers who have taken th...
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Information Literacy
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 1535 views
Research (supplemented by informal observation) over the past ten years has shown that students of all ages have particular difficulties finding, interacting with and using information; difficulties that are exacerbated by characteristics o...
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Emotional Literacy in the Curriculum for Excell...
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 2528 views
Developing the 4 Capacities through Emotional Literacy’. Each capacity in the Curriculum for Excellence needs the core competencies of emotional literacy in order for it to be optimised. In other words we need to foster, nurture and facilit...
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Using Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence for ...
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 2167 views
Outcomes and experiences for Curriculum for Excellence provide broad statements of learning which require a range of teaching and assessment approaches. They indicate the direction of travel and offer opportunities for the gathering and int...
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Parents As Partners In Excellence
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Finance. 1356 views
The implementation of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 has highlighted the role that parents play in ensuring that their children are successful learners who grow into confident adults able to take up their roles as citi...
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Scotland's Curriculum Architecture
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 1779 views
The coming year will see the emergence of learning outcomes and experiences across the curriculum. Teachers will have to consider how these outcomes and experiences will be delivered; through curriculum areas, as part of ethos and life of t...
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Promoting Values
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 1996 views
Building workshops already delivered to headteachers from Stirling, South Ayrshire, and Glasgow, the objective of this taster session is to introduce an approach which enables: greater understanding of what we mean by values and ethical dec...
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Using Computer Game Design For Learning
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 1702 views
An aim of the Curriculum for Excellence is to develop successful learners. This seminar considers how to create a climate for successful learning and how to recognize children’s progress in this area. The seminar is based on a case study ab...
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Scottish Skills Academies: Colleges supporting ...
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Finance. 715 views
This workshop will focus on the North Lanarkshire model of vocational training partnerships between colleges and schools. The North Lanarkshire partners deliver a range of innovative programmes within the field of Construction, Automotive S...
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More Choices More Chances
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 958 views
Scotland’s colleges have a tradition of working with young people to develop their skills and aspirations. Working with the Scottish Executive, colleges are supporting its strategy to reduce the proportion of young people not in education, ...
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Citizenship At Corseford: Scottish Education Award
from ltscotland, posted 2 years ago in Education. 780 views
This seminar will be delivered by the Active Citizenship Scottish Education Awards winning school which will exemplify the strategies used in the classroom to promote the wider citizenship agenda either locally or globally to its young peop...
