Conference themes 2009
Scottish Government’s national outcomes:
Our young people are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens; we are better educated, more skilled and more successful, renowned for our research and innovation.
Primary theme: Curriculum for Excellence: Making the Change
Definition:
Curriculum for Excellence, building on existing excellence in Scottish education, is designed to enable teachers and/or practitioners and all other educators to focus more effectively on the teaching and learning process, enhance the role of support staff and provide every pupil with a chance to achieve the four capacities.
In making the change towards Curriculum for Excellence, educational establishments need to be supported to develop the tools and techniques that will allow them to identify their own priorities and to develop solutions which are appropriate to their own circumstances.
The Scottish Learning Festival 2009 will bring together examples of classroom and establishment-wide practice and management strategies, including the use of Glow, from across the country which will enable the transition to take place within the context of Curriculum for Excellence.
In bringing together a broad range of presenters within their own mix of successful solutions, the Scottish Learning Festival will facilitate the development of communities of learning from the early years through primary into secondary and beyond.
Further information available on the Curriculum for Excellence website.
Subsidiary theme: Glow: Lighting Up Learning
Definition:
Using technology, staff and students can focus their attention more readily on the huge wealth of experience from across Scotland in helping students achieve the four capacities. Using Glow, staff and students can share in their learning experiences, and become effective contributors to communities of learning.
Glow provides a rich learning network, where opportunities for CPD are gathered and presented from across Scotland. Tools inside Glow such as Glow Groups, CPD Reflect and CPD Find provide the means to find, record and share areas of development with others.
As the integration of technology into teaching and learning becomes more commonplace, the Scottish Learning Festival 2009 will bring together examples of classroom and establishment-wide practice and management strategies from across the country which will enable the transition to take place within the context of Curriculum for Excellence.
Glow provides the means to extend the Scottish Learning Festival 2009 outwith the confines of the two-day event, creating communities of interest around each seminar, spotlight and keynote. Indeed, Glow opens up the festival to those unable to attend the event physically and creates opportunities for collaboration in the lead-up to and after the event.
Further information available on the Glow website.