Scottish Learning Festival News

The theme for SLF 2010 is Curriculum for Excellence: Enhancing experiences, raising standards. We are now accepting abstracts for proposed participation. Visit the Scottish Learning Festival website for more information on the theme and details of how to submit a proposal.

Here is a further list of seminars that have their associated presentations added to this site:

• A1A: Improving Scottish Education 2: Pre-school to Early Primary
• A2E: Healthy Minds – Moray Mental Health Framework Pilot Project
• B1H: Curriculum for Excellence: Vocational learning through SQA’s National Qualification Group Awards
• B3A: Developing Financial Awareness Accredited through Youth Achievement Awards
• C1B: Curriculum for Excellence – Making the Change with Critical Skills
• CD41: HMIE: Excellence in Equality and Diversity Education
• D1A: Numeracy across Learning: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice
• D2B: Working in Partnership to Reduce Childhood Obesity
• E1Y: Interdisciplinary Project, 3-15, with the Main Focus on Science and Technology
• G2D: 16+ Learning Choices: Progress so far…….
• J1C: Shared Responsibility – International Partnerships and Developing Global Citizenship
• L2A: Recognising Achievement
• L2G: Curriculum for Excellence and the Relationship to PRD and CPD with a Focus on Distributed Leadership
• L2H: A Tapestry of Learning: Teaching for Understanding (TfU) and AifL
• N1I: Sciences: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice

If there are any more, they will be posted on their respective seminar descriptor pages.

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Here is an additional  list of seminars that have their associated presentations added to this site:

• B2D: Glow in the Classroom: Personal Reflections of Changing Practice using Glow
• C1B: Curriculum for Excellence – Making the Change with Critical Skills
• C2F: Podcasting and Pre-service Teachers
• D2B: Working in Partnership to Reduce Childhood Obesity
• G1B: Exploring Conflict and Child Soldiers in the Classroom – Why and How Should We Approach this Topic?
• J1D: Environmental Sustainability: Good Practice and Ways Forward
• J1I: Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach in Secondary Schools – Schools’ Global Footprint
• L1A: Making the Experiences and Outcomes Glow
• N1G: Religious Education in Roman Catholic Schools: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice

More to follow.

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To save you hunting about – here is a list of seminars that, so far,  have their associated presentations added to this site:

• Assessment Developments Around the World and their Relevance for Current Scottish Developments
• StaffWise: Staff Wellbeing in Scottish Education
• Sharing Standards and Expectations: Practical Approaches to Moderation for Excellence
• Excellence in Partnership – Skills Development Scotland
• A Global Perspective on Education: Key Messages from OECD PISA
• Use of GLOW as an Authority-wide Networking tool for Science Teachers
• Job, Education and Training (JET) Programme

More to follow.

A few more presentations have been shared by presenters via www.SlideShare.net.

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Keynote speeches by Fiona Hyslop and Carol Dweck now available on SLF website.

More to follow soon.

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The national Glow Meet with Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning was a real success.

Over 700 pupils and teachers joined in to hear the Cabinet Secretary speak about why she is proud to be Scottish. She then took questions from the Glow audience, hearing from classes from as far apart as Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway.

If you’d like a chance to view a recording of the Glow Meet, it can be found on the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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Young Radiowaves reporters from Rimbleton Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School are looking forward to visiting SLF 2009  and interviewing V.I.P.s, teachers, guests and even some exhibitors.

The interviews will be posted on the Scottish Learning Festival channel on the Radiowaves website.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the  RSS feed to be kept up to date with any new podcasts as they are posted.

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In advance of her keynote speech at SLF 2009, Fiona Hyslop will be hosting a Glow Meet for Scottish schools from Gavinburn Primary School in West Dunbartonshire.

The Glow Meet will take place on the September 15, 2009 between 1pm and 2pm.  Ms Hyslop will be speaking about why she is proud to be Scottish. She is inviting pupils from schools across the country to contribute by asking questions via Glow Meet.

To sign up your class to watch or to take part in the question and answer session, please visit the SLF Extra Glow Group (Glow login required).

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The SLF team are delighted to announce the following internationally renowned keynote speakers for this years conference:-

• Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Fiona Hyslop MSP, Scottish Government

• Prof. Ferre Laevers, Director of the Research Centre for Experiential Education, University of Leuven

• Prof. Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

• Frank Dick OBE, former British Athletics Federation Director of Coaching.

Further information about the keynotes, conference programme and details of how to book will be available from the SLF website at the end of April.

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Planning for next year’s Festival has already started. If you would like to take part in next year’s conference programme, information about the Call for Participation and how to submit your proposal will be available on the SLF website later this month.

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