This was the first investigation I ever wrote completely from scratch. It was conceived in collaboration with my very good friend, PT English, but the actual lessons came from me, something that left me very proud and extremely scared. We based it around Scottish myths and legends, with witches and ghosts and superstitions, lots of [...]
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Scotland: History or Mystery?
Posted in information literacy, learning and teaching, tagged English department, information literacy, investigations, Scotland History/Mystery on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New blood I
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, thinking, web 2.0, websites, tagged student teachers on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Equal opportunity
Posted in ASD, education, investigations, learning and teaching on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Work Experience
Posted in learning and teaching, libraries, school, school website, transferable skills, tagged library assistants, work experience on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was one of those occasions when you blithely offer your services, knowing full well that they’ll never be required. As a result, that offhand remark about work experience placements came back to haunt me. A lot of LRC tasks are repetitive, but the last thing I wanted was to bore a pupil (C) for [...]
Do cabbages make good pets?
Posted in education, investigations, learning and teaching, tagged mindmaps on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mind-mapping goes hand in hand with individual thinking from both pupils and teachers. While one class was trying to memorise their twenty words, their teacher asked “What’s a house cabbage?” We all looked at him (strangely). “Is it a new kind of pet?”, he asked, gesturing at the words on the board. Um, no, it’s [...]
Storyboarding with Deep Fried Films
Posted in education, For education, imagination, inspiration, learning and teaching, literacy, questioning, storytelling, television / films, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Deep Fried Films, Moving Image Education, storyboarding on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was a fascinating bit of CPD with Martin Greechan from Deep Fried Films, looking at just one aspect of film-making: the storyboard. So what did we learn today? Film has certain similarities to books, with scenes instead of chapters, and a different grammar. First we learned some vocabulary There are different styles of shots: [...]
Water Week
Posted in education, imagination, learning and teaching, questioning, reading, resources, storytelling, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Eco Schools, water on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A blether with a colleague turned into a fully fledged plan for an Eco Schools cross-curricular Week of Water. It would obviously need to be ok’d by SMT, but nothing here is too difficult or costly and most of it ties in beautifully with what’s already in the curriculum. Just brainstorming, we came up with [...]
Scotland’s contribution to science
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, questioning, tagged Alexander Fleming, Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland's contribution to science, Scottish scientists, Sophia Jex-Blake on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This started off begged, borrowed and stolen from a colleague. PT Science originally told me that the Faculty wanted to reintroduce an old investigation on famous scientists, which later turned into Scottish scientists, which further transmogrified into “Scotland’s scientific contribution to the world” to allow scientists whose work took place in scotland too. Not that [...]
Back to basics
Posted in learning and teaching, libraries, tagged classification on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new term, a new crop of assistants, happy to help so long as it doesn’t require too much work, and especially, too much thought. Tough. This week is all about starting to get them familiar with the workings of the LRC, before I let them loose on the general school population. Today there were [...]
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