Roadshow

Had fun tonight blethering at a Curriculum for Excellence roadshow I’d been invited to take part in. Nobody was really interested in the wonderful investigations I had gathered evidence for, but then, I should have had more detail on the boards to explain what was going on in all those photos. On the other hand, [...]

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Confusion

So, what is it I do again? In the last couple of days, two separate people have suggested that I’m doing too much. Well, ok, that’s not actually debatable. I am doing too much, but what’s causing pondering is the specifics that they’ve chosen. According to source 1, I shouldn’t be organising assignments from conception, [...]

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Jencks’ mine art

I’m really excited about an article I’ve just seen on the Scotland Outdoors website. I love their podcast and was exploring the articles on the website when I noticed one called Charles Jencks landscape artist. I really like a lot of the land art that I’ve seen, although unfortunately it’s mostly been online or in [...]

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New blood II

I held a meeting with a trio of student teachers to discuss building an investigation. While the idea needs some more work, I gained a lot of insight into their current thinking and how new students might approach working in the library. One task was to find five good websites on da Vinci, but ironically [...]

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New blood I

Every year, I speak to the student teachers about how important libraries are to education, and how they can get the best out of them. Usually, it goes along the lines of  “Go and talk to the librarian – a lot. Keep them up to date in what your plans. Don’t forget to include them [...]

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Back to Japan

The project continues and it’s intriguing. The pupils are meant to be creating an itinerary for an imaginary trip to Japan, with each member of the group creating one of five pages, plus a contents page and a map. What’s so interesting is how the pupils are approaching it. When asked, they’ll say, I’m doing [...]

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Investigating Japan

New investigation today all about Japan. As usual, we’re working to create something that demands thought and synthesis and avoid copy and paste. We hasn’t investigated Japan for a while as new staff were trying out new topics, so it’s nice to be back. This time, we’re asking groups of pupils to create an itinerary [...]

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Equal opportunity

Last year at uni, I had an inclusion assignment for which I tried to develop a module which would raise awareness of inclusion and equality. Collaborating with a colleague, we drew up lessons to analyse stereotypes and get pupils to think about their own reactions.  Unfortunately I found suitable resources incredibly hard to find so [...]

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Chuffed

Left at lunchtime on Friday to go along to Daughter’s school show (really funny and well produced), and discovered The Envelope from uni waiting for me at home. Got good comments for my final assignment so I’ve now completed my PGC APS. I’d love to continue, but the cost is just too much, for now [...]

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Subtle cruelty

An interesting incident at work today when a girl came over to another in her group and told her that the group didn’t need any more information and she should stop searching. This was just half an hour into their research, and it appeared to be a unilateral decision made on behalf of the other [...]

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