- February 27th, 2009
Aberdeen to use Glow for Curriculum for Excellence CPD
- J Jelly
- Comments: 2 Comments »Tags: Active Learning, AifL, Cooperative Learning, Critical Skills, Glow benefits
There are so many ways to view and use a Glow Group. The prime role may be for teaching and learning with a class, for collaboration among staff, for distribution of information. This week I met Lynne Bowie, Curriculum for Excellence Officer in Aberdeen City. Lynne is developing a Glow Group as a CPD resource. The Sharing of Good Practice Glow Group is designed to ensure all staff have access to resources, research and examples of effective practice, that will prepare them to teach within the Curriculum Framework.
When Lynne attended a Glow awareness-raising session run by the Aberdeen ICT Team, she realised what an opportunity Glow offers to deliver the materials she is developing to all Aberdeen teachers. In the present financial and environmental climate, Glow has many benefits. Using Glow reduces the need for lots of paper based resources. Using Glow to host the materials means everyone can access them, unlike conferences where only those lucky to attend are fully provided for (…and who can get out to go to conferences when there is so little class cover available?). Using Glow means that the project, which brings together good practice advice and examples, will be sustainable since the Glow Group can continue to develop as practices improve and more guidance comes out about delivering Scotland’s curriculum.
The Glow Group itself is really a mini-collection of sites. The parent group has the Curriculum Framework at its heart, in particular the Learning & Teaching portion. There are subgroups covering AifL, Active Learning, Co-operative Learning and Critical Skills – all tools that have been highlighted for Curriculum for Excellence. Each of these also has subgroups to ensure all the elements involved are given good coverage and allow staff interaction in discussion pages. Lynne is standardising the layout of each area so staff will become familiar with the template and know where to look for the research, key features and local exemplification that is on each noticeboard page.
The Glow Group is still in development but there is no doubt that Aberdeen practitioners will be well served by it when it launches at summer.
Categories Aberdeen City, Curriculum for Excellence, Glow Groups, Uncategorized
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Maybe a Victor Meldrew moment but the walled garden (totally) is a bitBT. I appreciate the reqs of child protection but with a few clicks I am sure you could make your place more friendly to those of us not in the Glow world. Google dominates by embracing all religions/languages/.. there seems to me no similar thread in Glow. Happy Christmas
Paul, a welcome addition to Glow, as part of the planned refresh in the next few months, will be the addition of a blogging tool which will allow content from Glow to be published externally should the user wish to.