Terry Ashton has been an Adviser, first for Grampian Region and then for Aberdeen City for 20 years. Before that he was a Lecturer in Counselling and Guidance, based in Aberdeen, but responsible for leading inservice courses throughout the northern half of Scotland, including the Northern and Western Isles. Further into the distant past he was the equivalent of an Assistant Head and a school counsellor in North Wales, and before that a Guidance Teacher both in North Wales and in Bristol. He started working life as a chemistry teacher! His educational interests focus on different ways of helping young people to develop personal responsibility and to put this into action in a practical way. This has led him to doing work on learning styles, Enterprise in Education, PSE, and involving young people in supporting and helping other young people. He believes we have a lot to learn from other people in our own country and also from other countries and cultures, and has visited schools and teachers in Northern Ireland, Finland, Spain, Malta, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia and the USA. His other interests include photography, gardening and meteorology. | 