Modern Languages Blog

If your school has been working with e-Assessment over the last academic year, then why not submit an entry to the Scottish e-Assessment Awards?

Organised into the following categories, the Awards cover:

• Formative e-Assessment
• Summative e-Assessment
• e-Portfolio/ePDP
• Mobile e-Assessment
• e-Assessment Administration

To submit an entry, just send a completed application form to SeAA@rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk by 10 September, 2009

If you would like to receive your exam results by email and text message on Wednesday 5 August 2009, you must sign up by 5pm on Thursday 16 July and activate your account by 5pm on Friday 24 July https://www.mysqa.org.uk/cs8/content/secure/my_homepage.jsp

The Scotsman reports: Scottish qualifications have been given another boost as the project element of the new baccalaureate, in schools from August, has been rated as the equivalent of half an Advanced Higher by Ucas.
Read the Scotsman article online

http://news.scotsman.com/education/Boost-for-Scottish-education-as.5412177.jp

More on the Languages baccalaureate from Scottish CILT.

The Herald reviews this year’s French Higher available from

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/education/display.var.2511541.0.French_An_accessible_paper.php

Arrangements documents for the Scottish Baccalaureate in Science and the Scottish Baccalaureate in Language are now available on the SQA website along with National Unit Specifications for the Interdisciplinary Project within each Baccalaureate.

SQA website information: Scottish Baccalaureates – latest information

The TESS reports: Online may be the way ahead to assess pupils’ learning in Mandarin, says Christine Pollock, executive director of learning and leisure at North Lanarkshire Council.

Read the full article online at http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6009436?

Choosing Intermediate or Standard grades is not always easy.

Check out the Which Way Now? 2009 (PDF format – 2.6MB) magazine to make sure you choose all the right subjects. Available for download from Careers Scotland.

Presentations from the SALT conference held last month can be viewed from the Scottish CILT website

http://www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/conferences/SALT08/index.php?

From SQA: Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning has revealed the constituent parts of the new Scottish Languages Baccalaureate which has been created to build on the success of the Advanced Higher.

http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/34639.html

Date for your diary: 27 January 2009 at the Stirling Management Centre.

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.

The conference themes:

•  transition
• inter-disciplinary work
• learners’ experiences
• planning

Local authorities will be invited to nominate up to five participants, mainly teachers. If you are interested in attending, please get in touch with the person in your local authority who has responsibility for modern languages or for Curriculum for Excellence.

For more information contact Mandy Reeman-Clark on 01786 466294.