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The Powerful Effects of Teaching Thinking Explicitly as a Skill - KE
Thirty years experience with the direct teaching of thinking as a skill all around the world. Teaching thinking as a subject increases the performance in every other subject between thirty and one hundred percent. Teaching thinking increases five fold the employment rate of unemployed youngsters. Teaching Thinking reduces criminality among violent youngsters by ninety percent. Teaching Thinking cuts corporate costs by millions of pounds. An understanding of the human brain as a self organising i...

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[ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:56:41 GMT ]


Turning Good Teachers Into Great Leaders - KD
Everyone agrees that leadership in a school contributes greatly to producing high student outcomes. School leadership can come from the administration, teaching staff or both. While much is known about administrative leadership and how to develop it, less is known about teacher leadership. Few school authorities attempt to systemically identify and nurture teacher leaders....

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[ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:08:43 GMT ]


Everything is Miscellaneous - KB
We have organised our ideas using the same principles by which we organise our laundry. We've had to because the means by which knowledge is communicated and transferred have been physical. This has silently constrained how we order knowledge. Now, however, as information and the information about information are all becoming digital, we are creating new principles of organisation free of the traditional constraints. For example, in the physical world, a book has to go on one spot on a shelf, so...

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[ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:25:08 GMT ]


Success and Sustainability; By, With and Across Our Schools - KA
Few of the efforts and effects of leadership succeed in being sustainable. Heroic or charismatic leaders can achieve short-term success, but it rarely survives beyond their departure. Micromanagers can lift performance, but this quickly fades once the leader is no longer breathing down people's necks. Like sustainable development, sustainable leadership is an imperative in today's educational and social world. There must be leadership that really can foster long term school improvement and ensur...

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[ Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:09:39 GMT ]


National Content Partnerships - C2E
This joint presentation, with Michael Anderson of the National Library of Scotland and Paddy Patterson of Learning and Teaching Scotland, will look at how holders of national cultural collections can work with LT Scotland to provide wider access to their material through Glow (formerly SSDN)....

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[ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:33:57 GMT ]


Emotional Health Online - B1I
Discussion about the new and ambitious emotional health website for levels A- D aims to provide direction and support for teaching and learning. The site allows children to take a trip in the park where they meet a variety of people and situations which test their feelings and gives them feedback on the actions they choose....

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[ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:04:48 GMT ]


Glow Technical Update - S1H
As Scottish local authorities engage with the Glow, there are a range of technical issues which will require to be taken account of. This seminar will add to the technical briefings which have been offered to local authority technical staff during the preceding months. The actual content will be focused on the tasks that need to facilitate access for users who are communication with the Intranet service from within the local authority network....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:14:57 GMT ]


Cross-continental, Cross-cutting Themes - S1F
Curriculum Review isn’t just happening in Scotland – in this seminar you can find out what is happening in Australia, and compare and contrast with the ongoing process of reflection and engagement in Scotland. The seminar will offer a view of experience from Victoria, where new Essential Learning Standards are being introduced, within a coherent framework which also addresses the integration of pedagogy, assessment and reporting and compare that with Scotland’s experience in developing new learn...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:12:33 GMT ]


Cooperative Learning: Creating a Curriculum for Excellence - S1D
Enabling all pupils to become ‘Successful Learners’, ‘Confident Individuals’, ‘Effective Contributors’ and Responsible Citizens’ is unlikely to be achieved by adding new initiatives into an already overcrowded curriculum. Rather, the ways in which teachers teach and pupils learn need to be radically transformed so that the learning environment supports and promotes these outcomes. Durham District School Board, Ontario, Canada embarked on their Co-operative Learning journey in 1988, revolutionisi...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:09:48 GMT ]


Better Behaviour – Better Learning - S2I
An award-winning school presents how it met the Better Behaviour – Better Learning agenda by tackling indiscipline and truancy or other unauthorised absence, and working with staff and pupils to create a positive climate where pupils are respected and respect others. It covers: cross-curricular planning, using a virtual learning environment and global Issues and communication....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:07:59 GMT ]


Inspiring Enquiring Minds - S2H
This interactive seminar illustrates the achievements of pupils and teachers within Jordanhill School’s Inspiring Enquiring Minds project....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:05:38 GMT ]


The Assessment is for Learning School - S2G
The seminar will explore the impact being made currently in schools across Scotland by the Assessment Is for Learning Programme, ‘the quiet revolution in Scottish education’, in the words of the Education Minister. The Assessment is for Learning Programme began in Scotland in 2002, and there is a commitment to ensure all schools are part of the programme by 2007, to ensure that assessment supports learning on a truly national basis....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:03:59 GMT ]


Classrooms of the Future: Taking Learning Outdoors - N1F
Presentation of some of the key findings from the Outdoor Connections research and its implications in delivering A Curriculum for Excellence....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:59:55 GMT ]


Dial M for Learning - N1B
In 2001 the M-learning project was launched. This was a pan-European project with a multi-million Euro budget. The three countries which took m-learning forward were Britain, Sweden and Italy. The target audience for the project was young adults who were at risk of social exclusion. They were people not involved in education, training or employment. Many were disaffected learners who had not succeeded at school....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:58:50 GMT ]


Glow – What future does it hold? - L2G
Glow goes live in 2007. This discussion session will examine the positive changes for teachers and students through the availability of enhanced resources and tools to help communicate and share ideas with each other, making lessons more exciting for all....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:56:52 GMT ]


Making the Personal Learning Planning Process a Reality in the Secondary School - L2D
This seminar will look at the integration of formative assessment and personal learning planning processes into the teaching and learning methodologies utilised in English and maths classes....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:55:27 GMT ]


Infants can Communicate! - J1G
A project to develop communication skills, between Infants in Argyll Schools, utilising a variety of tools, ranging from telephone, digital photography and video, to Kidspiration, travelling bears and latterly Blog....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:48:55 GMT ]


Parental Involvement - B3H
The Parental Involvement Bill is expected to become an Act in Summer of 2006. Following this there will be a transition year where Local Authorities, Schools and Parents will be working together to look at how parents can become increasingly involved in supporting their children’s learning at home and in partnership with the School....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:47:44 GMT ]


All about Glow - G1A
Introducing learning professionals to the tools and professional development opportunities which will be available to Scottish schools....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:40:46 GMT ]


Unlocking Creativity: Teaching Creative Thinking and Learning - L1I
The seminar will build on the work done by Tapestry in promoting creativity in learning. It will explore the concept of creativity, will suggest ways in which it can be 'taught' and will suggest that A Curriculum for Excellence has now given permission for teachers to look for creative solutions to problems of underachievement....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:37:26 GMT ]


Learning and the Brain - L1H
We need to better understand how the brain processes information, and how learning mechanisms develop over the individual’s lifecycle. Bruno’s project has pursued various goals since its launch in 1999. One is to synthesise existing and emerging finding from cognitive and brain science. A second is to achieve collaboration between brain and learning scientists through live and electronic fora. Another is to stimulate the exchange and application of knowledge....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:36:18 GMT ]


Inspiring Leadership - L1G
This session will explore some of the current developments in leadership thinking, specifically those emanating from such key thinkers as Robert Greenleaf, Ron Heifetz and Howard Gardiner. The session will look at the relevance of these approaches to leading and learning within the educational context, and will then move on to explore what this means in personal and professional development terms for educationalists....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:34:57 GMT ]


Assessment is for Learning – more than 2 stars and a wish - L1F
Assessment for Learning (formative assessment) has, according to the independent evaluation by the University of London, Institute of Education, had an impact in Scottish classrooms: ‘Teachers were enthusiastic, well motivated, reported changes in their understanding of formative assessment and their pedagogical and assessment practices. They reported that the project had made a substantial contribution to their personal and professional development.’...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:33:27 GMT ]


Motivation within A Curriculum for Excellence - L1D
Adults working with young (or older) people, often seek ways to understand the key to motivating people, especially when the odds are stacked against them and when set-backs can all too easily create a sense of hopelessness and undermine success....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:32:05 GMT ]


Benchmarking Scottish Education - L1C
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is the international survey of 15 year olds’ attainment in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy. Scotland has one of the best education systems in the world. In the last PISA study in 2003, which involved 41 of the most developed nations in the world, for each domain (reading, mathematics and science); Scotland performed in the top third of nations. Andreas will provide an analysis of Scotland’s performance in PISA 2003, comparin...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:30:29 GMT ]


New Approaches to Engaging Learners - L1B
Frank Pignatelli will discuss how learndirect scotland has seen significant success in engaging many thousands of disaffected and disillusioned learners. He will describe the theoretic framework within which this work has been done and will offer examples of the approaches which have led to this success....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:28:34 GMT ]


The Leading of Learning through the School Library - D2I
This seminar will present current research on the development of the school library as a dynamic agent of learning in information age schools. Current research related to information literacy, information technology, and reading will be explored, as well as effective dynamics of learning through school libraries. It will draw on three research studies undertaken by the speaker that has involved 20,000 students and 1,200 classroom teachers in Ohio, Delaware and New Jersey....

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:24:54 GMT ]


Ban those Dinosaur Units: Implementing Independent Research though Guided Inquiry - D2F
"Those Dinosaur Units" refers to many meaningless forms of library research assignments or projects; the result of which is copying or outright plagiarism, and low levels of development of knowledge and understanding. In today’s complex and conflicting information landscape, how do you move from low-level learning activities and replace them with exciting learning experiences that enable students to build new knowledge and real understanding? This seminar focuses on the dynamics of Guided Inquir...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:22:54 GMT ]


Developing Information Skills in Secondary Schools: the North Lanarkshire Experience - D2C
This seminar will share North Lanarkshire’s experience in developing information skills in secondary schools supported by the Information Handling Skills course developed by SLIC, learndirect Scotland and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. Information Handling Skills was developed by the Scottish Further Education Unit and eCom Scotland on behalf of the partners. The course consists of 23 learning bites to support post 16 year olds develop a range of skills in using and retrieving information, includi...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:21:25 GMT ]


Information Literacy and the Curriculum in North Ayrshire: from Theory into Practice - D2A
As a result of the successful evaluation of the Primary School Library Project and based on practice developed during the pilot phase of the North Ayrshire Information Literacy Toolkit, information literacy is now a feature of the curriculum in North Ayrshire primary schools. This seminar will examine the background to the development of Information Literacy Toolkit, provide an overview of the resources contained within it, and provide interesting case studies of the way in which the programme h...

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[ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:19:46 GMT ]

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