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from James McEnaney
Originally posted on This Little Earth:
So the results are in: data from the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) shows a decline in literacy standards amongst pupils in Scotland. Cue the usual hand-wringing, vague promises and political point scoring that we should all have come to expect by now. Nevermind the fact that a…
from James McEnaney
Last month I wrote a blog post (an edited version of which has also been published by TESS) in response to the SQA’s pronouncement that their new appeals process had been a success. I disagreed with this assessment, arguing that the new system would in fact exacerbate the issue of educational inequality in Scotland. To my […]
from James McEnaney
Originally posted on This Little Earth:
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) have, unsurprisingly, declared the new approach to exam appeals a success: the number of appeals has plummeted from 66’000 in 2013 to 8500 this year; successful appeals have dropped to just 2000 from 32’000 last year; and the costs to the (taxpayer funded) SQA…
from James McEnaney
Following on from my workshop at Pedagoo Glasgow, this is a brief outline from my session. Click here to view the Prezi. The presentation element of my workshop had three sections, each of which is explored below: Philosophy If you work in the public sector, then your work should be public This may be slightly […]
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Today, Monday the 7th of April 2014, marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, where up to a million men, women and children were slaughtered in just 100 days. As countless innocent people were hacked, beaten, stabbed, burned and shot across Rwanda, the west refused to use the term ‘genocide’ in […]
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The more I think about it the more strongly I believe that this ‘N4 AVU safety net’ approach to N5 is very much the wrong way to go — James McEnaney (@MrMcEnaney) March 10, 2014 I posted the above tweet earlier this evening, but 140-character posts really aren’t an adequate medium for exploring this particular […]
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Post updated 11/03/14 So today I sat down to really plan in detail what a New Higher course for next year might look like, and here is where I am so far: Critical Essay Poetry War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy (studied at N5) A Last Marriage – Virginia Hamilton Adair Refugee Mother and Child […]
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In an attempt to make life easier for National 5 English teachers I have uploaded some critical essays to the National Moderation site. Teachers can now go on, read the essays and explain the mark they would give it, the idea being that this should help to make us more confident in the assessment of […]
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I have decided to make all of my National 5 resources available through the Free Resources page on this website – please feel free to use anything that you think might be useful.
from James McEnaney
Introduction June 2013 and a room full of fourteen and fifteen year olds find themselves on the front lines of a brave new world of assessment. Contrary to the experiences of their older siblings and friends, they would not be preparing themselves for a Standard Grade exam; instead, they would face a new foe: National […]