Glow Scotland

June 11th, 2012

GTC Scotland Professional Standards

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Development, Events, Glow TV, Local authorities, Probationers

For the last few months, GTC Scotland has been working with colleagues across the profession on a revision of the GTC Scotland Professional Standards. The working titles of the revised standards are: Standards for Registration (encompassing a Standard for Initial Registration and a Standard for Full Registration), the Standard for Career Long Professional Learning, and The Standards for Leadership and Management (encompassing A Standard for Middle Leadership and a Standard for Headship). A generic set of values has been developed to be used across each of the standards.

The revised standards will be available online in August, as part of a consultation exercise. A programme of Glow TV events has been arranged, to enable teachers to hear our thinking about the content of the revised standards, and to engage in discussion about this. These Glow TV events will take place on the following dates 30th August, 6th, 17th and 27th September, with the first three focussing on the individual standards and the final session looking at the overall standards framework.

Further details and an opportunity to sign up to take part in these events will be available on the Glow TV schedule before the summer break. GTC Scotland Professional Standards Glow TV Events.

January 31st, 2012

Scottish Education Awards

Lesley Sneddon

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The Scottish Education Awards celebrate the hard work and success which takes place in Scottish education. They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in Scottish classrooms. Nominations close on Friday 2 March 2012. Visit the Scottish Education Awards website for more information.

July 25th, 2011

New Glow cookbook - Onthank Primary’s P2 Igloo Project

rsibbett

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P2 and their igloo - learning about Antartica

Natalie Spence is a probationary teacher at Onthank Primary, Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire. Introduced to Glow whilst she was a student teacher at the University of the West of Scotland, Nathalie was keen to use Glow to support the learning and teaching of her P2 class.

In this activity the P2 class worked together to build an igloo out of recycled plastic milk cartons.

Find out more by looking at the Glow cookbook

August 19th, 2010

P6 online classroom

Gail Cairns

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Francine Paterson finished her probationary year at Lasswade Primary School, Midlothian, in June of 2010. During her year at Lasswade, Francine was introduced to Glow and was keen to investigate how to use the tools and functionality to enrich the learning experiences of her P6 pupils.

Visit this cookbook to find out how Francine used Glow to:

• Keep the pupils alerted to upcoming events in the school
• Publish the following week’s timetable
• Issue homework to pupils
• Store the homework responses that pupils upload
• Discuss the homework tasks and any other issues relating to school work
• Participate in the Dr Who National Glow Meet event and the associated learning activities

October 3rd, 2008

Glow for Aberdeen City Probationers

J Jelly

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 : Categories Aberdeen City, Probationers

Today I made my first visit to Aberdeen City as a Glow Development Officer. I was delighted to have the chance to speak to the city’s current probationer teachers concerning Glow as part of their training day about ICT based resources. It was heartening that, when asked what they knew already about Glow, a perfect response was given about a national web-based learning community of teachers and pupils.
After a short presentation about changing learning styles and the resulting need for pedagogical change, using digital tools such as are second nature to today’s pupils, we had a tour of the growing list of activities and Glow Groups to be found on the National Site. We looked at the Glowing Games and the Consolarium, Jaye Richards’ research into the impact of Glow, Fiona Hyslop’s recent Glow Chat and much in between.
After this national perspective, Brian Murray, a Glow ASG Mentor and maths teacher at Hazlehead Academy gave an insight into his school’s site. Staff at his school recently got their logins to Glow and now are paper free - accessing the daily bulletin and attendance information via Glow. The role-based sites and the school site had all been prepared by the central ICT team and looked very stylish and inviting. Hazlehead and other Aberdeen schools on Glow at present, are initially concentrating on the use of Glow for information flow. Its learning and teaching potential will soon be realised too when pupils are brought on to Glow in the near future. The planned gap between staff and pupils’ access, is working to advantage in terms of staff confidence building. Staff see the potential of Glow and now actively want pupils to get logins. The other schools across the LA will follow a similar pattern – staff first, then pupils a couple of months later.
The probationers are looking forward to getting their Glow logins - and I’m certainly looking forward to working with Aberdeen City and seeing all the planning and hard work pay off!

August 13th, 2008

East Lothian Probationers Event

mbrown

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My colleague Karen-Anne McAlpine and I were presenting in Campie Primary School in Musselburgh today. We made four presentations, over the course of the day, to probationers from primary and secondary schools across East Lothian. To do this, we teamed up with Elizabeth Cowan, Key Contact and Iain Stewart, Glow mentor and ‘head of science’ in Preston Lodge High School. I felt part of an extended Glow team. As the day progressed the presentations evolved but they followed the same format: I talked about the Glow big picture and pedagogy; Karen-Ann, gave a live demonstration of the Glow portal with a focus on the National site and the National Parks Glow group; Elizabeth, concentrated on showing the East Lothian noticeboard, a probationers Glow group and the Glow Scotland site; and Iain, shared his long experience of using VLEs and recent experience of developing Glow groups at Preston Lodge High School.

While Karen-Anne was showing the Glow portal I made some notes about our presentations. My introductions focused on the aspirations of Glow: building communities of learning and supporting new approaches for teaching and learning. I was answering my own questions: what is Glow, what is in Glow and what can it do? But I was also thinking about how the accepted definitions of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ are not so clear with this group of teachers, because of the mixed age group and mix of experience. These teachers have passed through university with a higher order of digital skills for learning and they actively use technology for social purposes. Some of these probationers are starting a second career and may have experience of earning a living useing technology. All of these new professionals are being encouraged on day one, in East Lothian, to experiment with technology and to build communities of learning with Glow.

Elizabeth demonstrated this, when she accepted an offer by Jody Greig, an ICT probationer teacher, to administrate for the new East Lothian Probationer’s Glow group. And all even before any probationer has a Glow log in. Some probationers have had an introduction to Glow during their postgraduate studies as part of an ICT elective course and are very keen to use Glow as soon as possible. I think it would be an advantage for student’s, like Jody, to have a Glow log on during their studies and carry their work between schools, virtually.

Karen-Ann summed up her tour of the Glow portal by using a PowerPoint slide showing an iceberg. This was a picture which she had developed from an idea we had discussed with Dave Gilmour . The purpose was to place what probationers know about existing technology in the context of Glow. K-A described what is visible only to the Glow community, below the water line eg Glow groups; what is on the water line eg email; and what is visible above the waterline to the public, such as blogs and the Glow Scotland site. She also described how East Lothian’s existing online learning community, edubuzz, can be incorporated into Glow. Elizabeth and Iain illustrated this important point further during their presentations, showing that existing good work can be displayed in Glow in a variety of ways. Iain also emphasised the large benefits of using Glow to share websites and to develop new teaching materials collectively: locally, regionally and nationally.

Before leaving Campie, I chatted with Dave Gilmour (Key Contact) about the National Parks Glow group and the important contributions that East lothian can make. He had been telling probationers all about edubuzz in a neighbouring classroom. Campie is a group member of the John Muir Trust and is helping to raise awareness of wild places but other schools in East Lothian are equally active…… but that is another post.