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Learning for Sustainability and ‘Connecting Classrooms’ – Glasgow⤴

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lfspostBritish Council Learning for Sustainability: Connecting Classrooms course, Glasgow

14 January – 18 March 2017

Further information and registration here: https://glasgowconnectingclassrooms.eventbrite.co.uk

This programme offers teachers the opportunity to engage and collaborate over a nine-week period which include a day-long participative face to face session at the beginning and at the end of the period, supported by fortnightly inputs from online materials.

Scotland is unique internationally in having a requirement for all teachers and education professionals to address Learning for Sustainability (LfS) in their practice to conform to the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) Professional Standards  LfS It also features as a priority in the recently revised Education Scotland ‘How Good Is Our School?’ (2015, HGIOS 4).This makes LfS development in Scotland one of the highest priorities in Scottish Education.

This fully funded professional learning initiative by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the British Council, is a timely opportunity for teachers to grapple with what LfS means, what existing and new skills and knowledge are required, and how this might all look in the a school context. Connecting directly with Curriculum for Excellence, involvement will enable you to effectively plan for and implement Learning for Sustainability approaches in your school in ways that will significantly enhance the educational experience of learners. Engagement with this course will also inform Professional Review and Development (PRD) and Professional Update (PU) for GTCS registration. This is a GTCS accredited programme and engagement in the programme could, in time, lead to Professional Recognition from the GTCS.

Teachers who successfully complete the programme will be eligible to apply for £3000 British Council support towards overseas study visits to partner schools in other countries. Learning can be used to strengthen international links at your school, enriching teaching and learning through partnerships and joint projects.

Further information and registration here https://glasgowconnectingclassrooms.eventbrite.co.uk for more information please contact abicornwall@lfsscotland.org   

Learning for Sustainability and ‘Connecting Classrooms’ – Edinburgh⤴

from

lfspostBritish Council Learning for Sustainability: Connecting Classrooms course, Moray House, University of Edinburgh

21 January – 25 March 2017

Further information and registration here: https://edinburghconnectingclassrooms.eventbrite.co.uk

This programme offers teachers the opportunity to engage and collaborate over a nine-week period which include a day-long participative face to face session at the beginning and at the end of the period, supported by fortnightly inputs from online materials.

Scotland is unique internationally in having a requirement for all teachers and education professionals to address Learning for Sustainability (LfS) in their practice to conform to the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) Professional Standards  LfS It also features as a priority in the recently revised Education Scotland ‘How Good Is Our School?’ (2015, HGIOS 4).This makes LfS development in Scotland one of the highest priorities in Scottish Education.

This fully funded professional learning initiative by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the British Council, is a timely opportunity for teachers to grapple with what LfS means, what existing and new skills and knowledge are required, and how this might all look in the a school context. Connecting directly with Curriculum for Excellence, involvement will enable you to effectively plan for and implement Learning for Sustainability approaches in your school in ways that will significantly enhance the educational experience of learners. Engagement with this course will also inform Professional Review and Development (PRD) and Professional Update (PU) for GTCS registration. This is a GTCS accredited programme and engagement in the programme could, in time, lead to Professional Recognition from the GTCS.

Teachers who successfully complete the programme will be eligible to apply for £3000 British Council support towards overseas study visits to partner schools in other countries. Learning can be used to strengthen international links at your school, enriching teaching and learning through partnerships and joint projects.

Further information and registration here https://edinburghconnectingclassrooms.eventbrite.co.uk, for more information please contact abicornwall@lfsscotland.org  .

Always learning⤴

from @ Caroline Gibson's Weblog

Having looked back on this blog I realised I haven’t blogged in just over a year.

I never intended to let this blog slip and it has not as if I have been writing elsewhere so I would like to get it going again but try to be a bit more focused in what I am writing in each post.

But first a recap of last year:

– I kept up my acting deputy head post until October 2012 when I got the job permanently. The work I was doing did not change but I feel more confident within the position now and this has helped me in developing how I am working with the HT, staff and parents.

– I am now working on unit 4, of 4, of the SQH. Thank goodness! This has been hard work and as useful as some of it is I will be glad when it is over to be honest. I will have spent 4 out of the last 5 years studying and it’s time for a break. My school development initiative is on working towards the Rights Respecting Schools Award but more on that in another post.

– In July (5 days after completing the West Highland Way Race and the day after passing out twice at a wedding and splitting my head open as a result of not recovering sufficiently from the race (read more here) my HT and I visited Fumbwa village and school in Malawi to further establish our school link with them.

– In August the HT and DHT from Fumbwa village visited us as part of the British Council Reciprocal visit grant. We had established our link through Link Community Development again but unfortunately they have now lost their funding for their link schools programme and so we are attempting to carry on this link by ourselves.

– In November our school was inspected internally as a follow up to our previous HMIE inspection. I did feel more pressure this time, as DHT and not just a very, very new PT as I was when HMIE inspected. However it all went very well and was a useful process to go through.

Another busy year again and in future posts I would like to go into more detail about my fifth visit to Malawi, our Rights Respecting Schools work and my DHT role. Although I feel a different pressure as DHT than when I was a class teacher or PT there is something every day which makes me say I love my job and I usually feel positive that I am making a difference in the lives and education of the children in the school. I think that’s a pretty good way to feel about your job!