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active learning

A class teacher's perspective

A class teacher's perspective

Linda Clarke, class teacher at St Margaret's RC Primary School, describes how the project has taken her out of her comfort zone and caused her to to examine and improve upon her practice. She says lessons are bound to be more interesting if teachers themselves are challenged and not just left to do the repetitive classes year in, year out.

Moving forward with technology outcomes

Moving forward with technology outcomes

Interview with Elaine Dodds at HMIE/LTS Good Practice conference for computing and information systems, that was held in the Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline on 3 June 2009. She talks about introducing creative tasks into the curriculum to address the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.

Cathkin Community Nursery: Movie Makers

Cathkin Community Nursery: Movie Makers

Cathkin Community Nursery hired a professional film crew to work alongside the children. The project offered the children many learning opportunities to explore films and the process involved in making films.

Learning is for life

Learning is for life

Parents and staff at Armadale Primary School in West Lothian discuss how parental involvement is an important part of a child's education.

Stirling show

Stirling show

A slideshow from the Mysteries Inc. conference, 2008.

Stirling connecting learning

Stirling connecting learning

A slideshow showing pupils work during the Mysteries Inc. project on the Mary Celeste.

Introducing Stirling Council's 'Big task'

Introducing Stirling Council's 'Big task'

This video discusses Stirling Council's 'Big Task' about the mystery of the Mary Celeste.

Involving children in planning

Involving children in planning

Angela Salgo, class teacher at Balfron Primary School talks about engaging pupils in learning. She talks about her experiences in allowing her class to become more involved in their own learning process by taking some ownership of class projects. She states that by doing this, children become more engaged in what they are doing and achieve better results.

Ownership of learning

Ownership of learning

Helen Sneddon, Education Support Officer, Stirling Council talks about promoting ownership for learning. She discusses that by allowing children to have ownership of their work and progress they are developing the life-skills that to take with them into later life such as motivation, engagement and setting themselves high standards.

Project aims

Project aims

This video from Stirling council talks about how learning in one school has focused across 2 or 3 curricular areas. This school's learning is centred around developing the skills children will need for life-long learning (life-skills). The children and teachers involved in this case study made every effort to produce the highest standards of work, through team-work and 'real life' work whilst preparing for their end goal - giving a presentation.