All posts in the ‘CPD’ Category
- February 24th, 2012
Open Day Study Visit - St Paul’s High, Glasgow
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, democracy, events, Fairtrade, holocaust education, learner voice, nature, school improvement
: Categories CPD, citizenship, community, curriculum areas, leadership, outdoor learning, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development
9:30am – 3.00pm, Thurs 10th May 2012
Theme: Sustainable Development Education and Education for Citizenship
St Paul’s High School is an inspiring example of a school that has adopted a whole school approach to global citizenship. The school’s achievements in this regard have earned it national recognition as a finalist in the 2011 Scottish Education Awards (Sustainable School Category) and as a winner of the 2009 Scottish Education Awards (Active Citizenship Category).
The school’s approach and vision for global citizenship has made an identifiable impact on learners, helping them grow in confidence and providing them with real-life opportunities to develop their skills and transform their local community. The school has supported a wide range of activities to achieve this, most notably:
- Dedicated time within the social studies curriculum for learners to choose and engage with local community projects and tackle anti-social behaviour in the wider community
- A strong school ethos which puts respect for others and service to others at the heart of school life and the curriculum
- A sustained commitment to learner voice and a well-established school parliament that provides learners with decision-making powers and a budget to make things happen
- A diverse range of activities and initiatives which support a whole school approach including a Fairtrade group, Eco-Schools group and pupil campaign group
- Planned opportunities for personal achievement through S1 electives, S2 citizenship and S3 skills academy.
This CPD event offers practitioners and school leaders from across Scotland the chance to visit St Paul’s High School to meet with the Head Teacher, staff and learners and also tour the classrooms, buildings and grounds.
Those participating in the open day will also have time to reflect and share their own experiences.
Download Programme for St Paul’s Open Day>>
How to book
To book, please email: [email protected] or Tel. 0141 282 5172.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
More- February 9th, 2012
Developing global citizens through sciences, social studies and technologies
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: climate and energy, CPD, events, resources
: Categories CPD, creativity, curriculum areas, expressive arts, mathematics, renewables and climate change, sciences, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development, technologies
Developing global citizens through sciences, social studies and technologies
Interdisciplinary learning for a low carbon and zero waste future
CDP event for practitioners in secondary schools
Menzies Hotel, Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ
9:30am to 3:30pm, Friday 30th March 2012
Target audience: Practitioners, Principal Teachers and Faculty Heads of Technologies (e.g. CDT, Food and Textiles, Business and Enterprise), Sciences and Social Studies. Also local authority coordinators and QIOs.
Aim of the event:
This CPD event provides an exciting opportunity for secondary school practitioners to discover how cradle to cradle technologies and a circular economy can be used as a rich and stimulating context for interdisciplinary learning relating to sustainable development education and global citizenship within Curriculum for Excellence.
The Scottish Government is committed to a low-carbon and zero-waste economy, and the development of enterprise, creativity, STEM (Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Maths) and higher order thinking skills in young people are essential if we are to realise these ambitious plans for the future. The circular economy concept proposes the use of sustainable technologies, innovative design and production methods and systems thinking to minimise waste and reduce the exploitation of the Earth’s precious resources. This event will draw on practical and exciting developments within industry which are set to transform the way our economy operates in the decades ahead.
Education Scotland is working in partnership with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the University of Edinburgh to develop strategies for professional development around sustainable development education and the circular economy to encourage the setting up of communities of practice among practitioners in Scotland. These will provide opportunities for ongoing, localised support and collaboration.
To find out more about the circular economy visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRKvDyyHmI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
How to book
To book, please email: [email protected] or Tel. 0141 282 5172. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
Download CPD event flyer and programme >>
More- February 9th, 2012
Falkirk Council DGC Showcase and open day at Bo’ness Academy
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, europe, events, modern languages, school improvement
: Categories CPD, Uncategorized, china, citizenship, curriculum areas, early years, europe, expressive arts, health and wellbeing, international, languages, leadership, mathematics, modern languages, primary schools, religious and moral education, sciences, secondary schools, sharing practice, social studies, sustainable development, technologies
Falkirk Council global citizenship showcase and school open day
Venue: Bo’ness Academy, Falkirk
9:30am – 3.00pm
This event will now take place on Thursday 17th May 2012
Theme: International Education
This CPD event offers practitioners and school leaders an exciting opportunity to visit Bo’ness Academy and attend Falkirk Council’s Global Citizenship Showcase Event.
Bo’ness Academy is an inspiring example of a school that has used international education as a vehicle to engage the whole school in global citizenship activities. Through the Comenius Programme and other well established links the school has developed a rich international programme connecting it to countries across the world including: The Gambia, The Netherlands, China, France, Germany and The Czech Republic.
A focus of the event will be to identify and share the practical lessons and ideas that have helped the school move forward on its journey including:
- Making global citizenship a key priority in the school and a focus for the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence
- Using international links to explore important issues in a global context and to create engaging, meaningful and challenging learning experiences
- Developing strong international partnerships which can be sustained and which have made an impact on every learner.
Participants will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the Head Teacher, International Coordinator, staff and learners and also tour the classrooms and school. Time will also be set aside for participants to reflect and share their own experiences.
Following the open day event, participants will also have the opportunity to attend Falkirk Council’s Global Citizenship Showcase event which will also be taking place in Bo’ness Academy from 4pm – 6pm. This will feature exhibitions and displays from leading organisations such as Eco-Schools Scotland and the British Council and will showcase innovative global citizenship practice from many Falkirk schools.
How to book
To book, please contact Megan Farr, Policy Officer, Falkirk Council. Email: [email protected] or Tel. 01324 506671.
Places for the open day section of the event are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
Download programme for Bo’ness Academy Open Day >>
More- January 27th, 2012
Global citizenship online community - Join now
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: community, CPD, school improvement
: Categories CPD, citizenship, early years, games and sport, international, leadership, learner voice, primary schools, secondary schools, sharing practice, sustainable development
Do you have an interest in, or remit for, global citizenship? Need some advice or want to share ideas with like-minded practitioners?
If so, then you’ll probably want to have a peek at the shiny new online community for global citizenship on CPD Central. Join now so you can brag to colleagues about how you were one of the pioneering members .
Why have we set it up? Well, there’s always a buzz of ideas and sharing at our face-to-face CPD events and we thought it’d be amazing if we could find a way of bringing people together again and again to keep the discussion and buzz going. Well we’ve found a way! Here’s your bit:
Step 1 - Visit http://bit.ly/DGConline and add your picture (Glow log in required)
Step 2 - Share an idea or ask the audience
Welcome gift! If you join before Friday 17th February 2012 we’ll be happy to offer you a special gift to welcome you to the community – one of our highly-prized global citizenship wall calendars (these have been flying off our shelves!).
More- January 27th, 2012
Whitelees Primary School - Open Day
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: climate and energy, CPD, enterprise, events, Fairtrade, learner voice, nature, school improvement
: Categories CPD, biodiversity, citizenship, community, curriculum areas, learner voice, outdoor learning, primary schools, renewables and climate change, sharing practice, sustainable development
School open day
Whitelees Primary School, North Lanarkshire Council
9:30am – 3.00pm, Monday 20th February 2012
Theme: Sustainable Development Education
This event was originally due to take place on 8th December 2011 but had to be cancelled due to the severe storms. It has now been rescheduled for Monday 20th February 2012.
Whitelees Primary School hit the headlines in 2011 when it became the first primary school to be awarded five ‘excellent’ grades by the school inspectors. This isn’t the first time their achievements have made news. The school’s accolades and awards include:
- Finalist, Scottish Education Awards - Sustainable School category (2011)
- Best Green School Award (2009)
- Winner, Scottish Education Awards – Best Enterprise category (2008)
- Four Green Flags, Eco-Schools Scotland.
A key factor in the school’s success has been the way it has placed global citizenship and sustainable development education at the heart of the curriculum to provide exciting, relevant and engaging contexts for learning. This has helped to create, ‘Highly motivated, confident and ambitious children who are keen to learn and to make a difference in school and the wider community.’
This CPD event offers practitioners and school leaders from across Scotland the chance to visit Whitelees Primary School to meet with the Head Teacher, staff and learners and also tour the classrooms, buildings and grounds. A focus of the event will be to identify and share the practical lessons and ideas that have helped the school develop a successful whole school approach to sustainability and global citizenship including:
- A sustained commitment to pupil voice with learners being given real opportunities to shape the curriculum and school decision making
- Effective use of the school grounds, nature and vegetable gardens to support outdoor learning and deliver the curriculum
- The inspiring pupil rock band which has achieved notable success through their songs about fair trade and climate change.
Those participating in the open day will also have time to reflect and share their own experiences.
Click here to download programme for open day
How to book
To book, please email: [email protected] or Tel. 0141 282 5172.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. This is a free event!
More- January 18th, 2012
Global Citizenship - Glow drop-in session
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, events, nature
: Categories CPD, sustainable development
Developing Global Citizens through sustainable development education
Time: 3.45pm – 4.45pm, Thursday 26th January
Where: The shiny new Glow community for global citizenship
2012 is a big year for Sustainable Development Education (SDE):
- World leaders will gather in Rio to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and decide on further action
- 2012 is the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
- We only have three years until the end of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Education and there is a buzz of activity happening in schools and local authorities across Scotland.
If you’d like to tune into all that’s happening and are looking for inspiration and ideas to kick start 2012 then this is the Glow meet for you. The Developing Global Citizenship Team will be hosting this informal session open to any practitioner or school leader – just drop into the Glow meet to pick our brains, find out what’s coming up or tell us what you’re up to. If you missed the previous sessions then click here to see how they work.
Note: if you join us with a headset or webcam then it means we can have a good blether. However, if you prefer to type fast with wonky spellng then that’s good too!
Click here to watch the recording>>
More- December 22nd, 2011
Curriculum planning and timetabling for global citizenship
- mfarrell
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, curriculum planning, events, interdisciplinary learning, personalisation, school improvement, senior phase, timetabling
: Categories CPD, citizenship, curriculum areas, leadership, secondary schools, sharing practice, sustainable development
A global citizenship workshop for curriculum planners and timetablers
Date: 24th January 2012
Venue: St Paul’s High School, Glasgow
This workshop will bring together curriculum planners and timetablers with an interest in global citizenship, to share ideas and compare plans, strategies and approaches to current planning and timetabling issues. The day will consist of a series of focused discussions and professional dialogue centred on key reflective questions.
At this crucial phase in the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence it is vital that senior leaders in secondary schools have the opportunity to share ideas, innovations and solutions that will help to deliver a curriculum that:
- Develops the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to equip young people for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century
- Supports interdisciplinary learning by facilitating connections across the curriculum
- Encourages active and collaborative learning approaches including provision for learner voice and opportunities for outdoor learning in the school grounds, local community and beyond.
- Connects with major local and global themes and contexts that are relevant to young people and their future such as sustainability and climate change, identity and cultural heritage, health and well being, rights and responsibilities, equality and social justice and international education
- Promotes an outward looking, positive ethos across all aspects of school and community life, connected to real life events and issues relevant to the school community
- Supports integration of the broad general education with the senior phase and new National Qualifications giving careful consideration to the issues in managing the change in the remaining years of transition to CfE;
- Develops appropriate provision for universal and targeted personal support
- Is adaptable and flexible enough to facilitate strong partnership working
The workshop will enable participants to think about the following questions:
- How have you structured your S1-S3 broad general education and how does this facilitate progression into the senior phase?
- How have you effectively used partners (especially in the senior phase) to help deliver entitlements – and what are the curricular and timetabling issues around this area?
- What mechanisms and curricular architecture are you using to ensure that interdisciplinary learning is embedded?
- How are you able to provide as individualised a curriculum as possible, bearing in mind personalisation and choice (a) for ALL learners and (b) for those learners who may not achieve level 3 during S1-S3?
- How you are coping with the technical timetabling demands around timing, staffing and accommodation for PSE / H+WB / PE / RE – particularly in the senior phase and particularly during the dual running year?
Fundamental to the event will be the professional dialogue and exchange of ideas that takes place on the day, enabling participants to network, reflect on their own practice and develop intentions for improvement in their own context. With this in mind, participants are encouraged to join the Leadership of Global Citizenship online community, take part in the pre-event activities and share their reflections online.
How to book
To book, please email: [email protected] or phone 0141 282 5172.
This event is free of charge. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Follow this link to take part in the pre-event reflection activities (NOW LIVE!)
Directions to St Paul’s High School
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- December 9th, 2011
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable World
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, resources
: Categories CPD, biodiversity, citizenship, community, outdoor learning, sustainable development
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO. It contains 100 hours (divided into 27 modules) of professional development for use in pre-service teacher courses as well as the in-service education of teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials.
There are over 60 million teachers in the world. Each one is a key agent for bringing about the changes in values and lifestyles we need. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future will enable teachers to plan learning experiences that empower their students to work creatively with others to help bring their visions of a better world into effect.
Find out more about the programme.
Download resources and modules.
More- November 15th, 2011
DGC Glow Meet ‘Drop-in’ session
- kmayer
- Comments: 2 Comments » Tags: Tags: climate and energy, CPD, debating, events, learner voice, nature, resources
: Categories CPD, citizenship, international, learner voice, primary schools, renewables and climate change, sharing practice, sustainable development
Theme: Developing Global Citizens – A whole school approach
Day: Tuesday, 6th December
Time: 3.45pm – 4.45pm
Following the success of our first Glow drop-in event, the Developing Global Citizenship Team are once again making themselves available on our new Glow TV channel to share inspirational practice and ideas and also to answer any questions you may have about global citizenship. This is an informal session open to any practitioner or school leader in Scotland – just drop into the Glow meet to pick our brains, find out what’s coming up or tell us what you’re up to. If you missed the first one then click here to see how it works.
Our next session will focus on the potential of global citizenship education to inspire learning across the curriculum. Ann Kay, Head Teacher of award-winning Whitelees Primary School (the first to gain five excellent grades in their school inspection) will share how embedding global citizenship across the curriculum transformed the learning experiences and ethos in the school.
The session will open with a presentation from 3.45pm to 4.15pm on How to develop a whole school approach to global citizenship. An open floor Q & A/discussion session will follow from 4.20pm – 4.45pm.
Remember: It’s not a requirement, but if you join us with headphones or a webcam then it means we can have a good blether.
Watch the recording of this session - click on DGC Channel (2163)_4>>
More- November 8th, 2011
Scottish Borders - Global Citizenship Twilight
- imenzies
- Comments: none Tags: Tags: CPD, events, school improvement
: Categories CPD, citizenship, early years, games and sport, international, primary schools, scottish culture, secondary schools, sharing practice, sustainable development
Global Citizenship and Eco-School Network
Learning community twilight session
This twilight CPD event for practitioners and local authority staff is the latest in a series of sessions to develop and strengthen professional learning communities and practitioner networks within the Scottish Borders.
Participants will have an opportunity for peer-to-peer sharing and reflection and will explore effective strategies for developing successful whole school approaches to global citizenship including international education, sustainable development education, education for citizenship and games legacy.
Those attending will also have the opportunity to learn about the opportunities for funding available to school learning communities to support mentoring, sharing and collaborative activities relating to global citizenship. Participants will also learn about the latest resources, free CPD events and exciting plans for 2012 (including Olympic Games and the Rio + 20 International Conference on Sustainability).
If you are any way involved or concerned with global citizenship and are looking for ideas and support then this is the event for you.
Who should attend?
Early years/primary/secondary school practitioners who are interested in/or have a remit for global citizenship, sustainable development education, Eco-Schools or other similar programmes. Also, local authority personnel with a responsibility for sustainability, waste, participation, energy and other related remits. Attendance at previous sessions isn’t a requirement.
Date and venue
Thursday 24th November 2011
Committee Room 1, Council HQ
Newton St Boswells
16.30 – 18.30
Cost: Free
Facilitator
Ian Menzies, Development Officer, Developing Global Citizens Team, Education Scotland
To book
Contact Caroline Scott on Email: [email protected] or Tel 01835 825108
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