Last Monday, Scottish CILT hosted the first virtual event for languages teachers through Glow - Scotland’s national school intranet. They invited practitioners from the primary and secondary sectors to share their experiences of interdisciplinary work and had examples from each sector as the focus of the event.
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Register online at www.scottishlearningfestival.org.uk or call the ticket hotline on 0870 421 1938, for keynotes, spotlight and seminars.
Highlights for modern languages include:
Live Lesson for MFL: Short Film and Moving Image Texts lighting up Language LearningCode: E1D Seminar Date: 23 September 2009 Start Time: 15:00
Modern Languages: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice
Code: M1G Seminar Date: 24 September 2009 Start Time: 10:30
The British Council’s Chief Executive, Martin Davidson, has announced new international opportunities for Scottish schools to link with partners from the Middle East to Latin America, marking the continued growth of British Council programmes in Scotland.
Read more from the British Council and find out more about Connecting Classrooms.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-connecting-classrooms.htm
The Curriculum for Excellence website has published the modern languages experiences and outcomes online
You can also create and save your own personalised groups of outcomes for planning use. Find out more from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/languages/modernlanguages/index.asp?
Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Keith Brown, Minister for Schools and Skills, formally launched the Curriculum for Excellence guidance on Thursday 2 April in Stirling.
The reforms are intended to raise standards by improving learning and teaching with literacy and numeracy a key focus. They will help our young people to become:
Curriculum for Excellence - http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/index.asp
Experiences and outcomes for Modern languages - http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/languages/modernlanguages/index.asp
Experiences and outcomes - http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/experiencesandoutcomes/index.asp
The HMIE publication, The Child at the Centre, is now available in Gaelic on the HMIE website, as are also the following HMIE publications.
How Good is our School – part 3 (in Gaelic) http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/publication/atgsm3.html
How Good is our School – The Journey to Excellence (parts 1 and 2) http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/publication/hgiosatgsm4.html
Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Connected magazine is now available online.
This issue includes a feature article on the schools that have been involved in trialling the draft experiences and outcomes for Curriculum for Excellence.
Elsewhere in the magazine we focus on early years. In the wake of the Scottish Government’s Early Years Framework, we explore the key changes and introduce the LTS Early Years team.
Also in the magazine we reflect on how the experience of teaching differs now from that of 20 years ago.
LTS is organising three new group visits.
Malawi - Global Teachers Programme 2009
LTS and Link Community Development invite applications for a Global Teachers Programme group visit to Malawi in July 2009. Closing date is 31 January 2009
New Zealand - 5-15 March 2009
The central theme for the visit will be the assessment of literacy, numeracy, and health and wellbeing in the context of Curriculum for Excellence. Closing date is 21 January 2009
Manitoba - 13-15 April 2009
The central theme of the visit will be the assessment of literacy, numeracy, and health and wellbeing in the context of Curriculum for Excellence. Closing date is 23 January 2009
Find out more and how to apply from the International Education website.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/internationaleducation/scipdvisits/groupvisits.asp
The autumn 2008 edition of the Scottish Languages Review.
Includes the following articles:
Susan Bremner: Some thoughts on teaching a mixed-ability class
Daniela Fomiatti: Cultural Behaviour of European Tour Groups in Scotland
Christine MacGregor: Accelerating the Access 3 French course
Petra McLay: German in Scottish education – school teachers’ perspectives
Hi
A wee reminder to pop this in your diaries for January.
This conferenence will be a joint Scottish CILT/HMIE conference which will showcase best practice identified during trialling of Curriculum for Excellence and from visits by HMIE and Scottish CILT.
Visit Scottish CILT for all the information you’ll need.
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