Asking an 11-year-old pupil in East Kilbride what life is like for their peers in Malawi is a question that might seem comparable to asking what life is like on the moon. Even in our globalised society, understanding cultures other than our own is a tricky task for most children.
For Caroline Gibson, Glow Mentor and […]

Jaye Richards, a biology and psychology teacher at Cathkin High School in Cambuslang, has found her Glow ‘road test’ enormously successful in reinforcing learning objectives.
Keen to discover how Glow could enhance learning and teaching in her classroom, Glow Mentor Jaye dedicated one third of teaching time to a Glow project examining the effects of water […]

When Western Isles Glow Mentor Kirsteen Maclean told her pupils at Bernera Primary School she would be attending last month’s Glow conference in Stirling, she encouraged them to post their thoughts and ideas on the Glow discussion board. Checking the forum, Kirsteen was pleased to see that pupils had not only posted summaries of their […]

The importance of roles rather than a series of tasks - this was the main finding for participants on an operational training session run by Aberdeen City Council to investigate two key management roles within Glow.
A group of local authority staff, a management information systems representative and six school mentors were looking at accounts and […]

Following Glow Mentor training in Harris in January, two teachers have been working together to bring pupils from Paible(a 5-14 school on North Uist) together with pupils from Sgoil Lionacleit (a community secondary school on Benbecula) using Glow Meet.
Mary Ann MacDonald, a P6/7 teacher at Paible, and Liz MacMillan, a French teacher at Lionacleit, arranged […]