Contributors

Contributors

Organised by:

Learning and Teaching Scotland

Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) provides advice, support, resources and staff development to the education community, creating a culture of innovation, ambition and excellence throughout Scottish education.

Funded by:

Scottish Government

The Scottish Government Education Directorate fully supports and participates in the Scottish Learning Festival. We are committed to expanding opportunities to ensure that everybody has access to learning opportunities that can help them achieve their full potential.

We believe it is vital that young people are successful learners, confidant individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.

Exhibition organised by:

EMAP

Emap organises the BETT Show in London and the Education Show in Birmingham, the UK's largest and most prestigious education events serving the ICT and school resource markets.

Official supporters:

AHDS

Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland is the union dedicated to school leaders from Scotland’s nursery, primary and special schools.

School Leaders Scotland

SLS represents the interests for School Leaders in Scottish secondary schools, providing support, advice, networking and information – a vital service to the entire leadership team.

EIS

The Educational Institute of Scotland is Scotland's largest teaching union, with over 59,000 members in nursery, primary, secondary, special, further and higher education. The EIS promotes the cause of education and has played a leading role in the development of CPD opportunities for Scotland's teachers, supported by our network of accredited Union Learning Representatives.

GTCS

The General Teaching Council for Scotland is the independent professional regulatory body for teachers which maintains the national register of teachers and is committed to raising the professional standards of teachers and education in Scotland.

HMIE

HM Inspectorate of Education is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Ministers under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998. We operate independently and impartially whilst remaining directly accountable to Scottish Ministers for the standards of our work. Agency status safeguards the independence of our inspection, review and reporting within the overall context of Scottish Ministers’ strategic objectives for the Scottish education system.

Our core objective is to promote and contribute to sustainable improvements in standards, quality and achievements for all learners in the Scottish education system and children’s services in Scotland.

Scottish Qualifications Authority

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is the national body for the development, accreditation, assessment and certification of qualifications other than degrees and some professional qualifications.

The character of Scottish qualifications has transformed in recent years – this is no accident. SQA has been working in partnership with schools, colleges, universities and industry to raise standards and develop new and exciting qualifications.

Visit SQA in the exhibition (stand G10) to find out about all our latest developments.

Media Partner

TESS

The Times Educational Supplement Scotland, media partner for the Scottish Learning Festival, is the pre-eminent publication for teachers, education managers and all involved with schools and FE colleges throughout Scotland.

It is essential reading for Education and Children’s Services professionals and the No.1 choice for advertising jobs. Every week, it is packed with news, views and analysis of teaching methods, CPD, case studies, good practice, curriculum and other developments.

The TESS website updates and enhances the main paper as well as giving an unparalleled selection of jobs.

Lead sponsors

Channel 4 Education

Channel 4 Education is focusing its commissions for 2008 and beyond on cross-platform projects in which TV is just one of many platforms for it’s new education content for teenagers. This increased investment in online is informed by research with young people, teachers, schools and education bodies and signals a commitment to take the channel’s education content to the target audience – 14 -19 year olds – using platforms and technologies most likely to reach them.

The new commissions focus on the key areas of careers, entrepreneurship, the transition from school to work and media literacy and illustrate Channel 4’s three ambitions for education; to reinvent the broadcasters’ role in education for teenagers; to provide tools for young people to do stuff; help young people get the most out of their networks.

Promethean

Promethean, a global leader and innovator of interactive learning solutions, are delighted to be a lead sponsor for this year’s Scottish Learning Festival. As experts in this field, we know that educational experience and expertise are as important as technical know-how. Our award-winning technologies have been developed by education professionals to help teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate learners. Our learner response systems allow pupils to express themselves and contribute to lessons, and teachers are given the opportunity to gauge a class’ level of understanding and gain instant feedback. Engage with Promethean and see the opportunities that technology can bring to your classroom.

SMART Technologies

SMART Technologies is the pioneer and leading worldwide provider of interactive whiteboards and collaborative technologies to education. SMART Technologies is proud to sponsor the 2008 Scottish Learning Festival With over 20 years’ experience, our products are designed to help educators to simply incorporate ICT into learning and teaching.

The SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard is is the UK’s favourite interactive whiteboard and is supported by a range of complementary products. These include the Senteo™ interactive response system and the SMART Learning Market Place, which both enhance lessons and engage pupils using the intuitive Notebook™ collaborative learning software.

Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge is delighted to be chosen as a key sponsor of the Scottish Learning Festival. It is motivating to know that so many like-minded people will meet to discuss making a positive difference to learning in Scotland, encouraging innovation in teaching and learning, celebrating and sharing success and contributing to making Scotland smarter.

Tree of Knowledge makes its effective contribution in Scotland by delivering unique pupil workshops, fun-filled learning experiences for staff and by working in partnership with Local Education Authorities to create exciting ‘hands on’ resources. All this and more in the aim of making Scottish Government vision for education a reality.

This year, for the first time, Tree of Knowledge has teamed up with North Lanarkshire Learning and Leisure services to develop a wonderful new resource specifically for Early Years. ‘Peapodo for Early Years’ will be launched at the Scottish Learning Festival September 2008.

Tree of Knowledge looks forward to meeting you at the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.