This document outlines the program for a seminar on pupil engagement and gains. The seminar will discuss the complexity of defining and measuring teacher effectiveness and pupil gains. Presentations will explore professional learning for teachers, approaches from Canada, developing new meanings of pupil gains from teacher and student perspectives, and realizing pupil gains. Discussion groups will consider what pupil gains mean in relation to Curriculum for Excellence and the teacher's role in identifying, assessing, and evaluating gains. The seminar aims to further understanding of developing teachers and increasing pupil outcomes.

1. STNE Seminar Pupil Engagement and Pupil Gains School of Education, University of Aberdeen Thursday 18th September 10.30am – 4.00pm

4. The complexity of teacher effectiveness and pupil gains. Dr Donald Gray

5. The Invitation “ DEVELOPING TEACHERS, INCREASING PUPIL GAINS A NEW PILOT PROGRAMME TO FURTHER DEVELOP TEACHING AS A VALUED AND RECOGNISED PROFESSION IN SCOTLAND” What meanings can we attribute to terms like “effectiveness” and “pupil gains”, particularly within the context of the ‘new era’?

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