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TAPS Inquiry, Progression and Investigative skills

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TAPS Inquiry, Progression and Investigative skills

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TAPS - Teacher Assessment in Primary Science

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TAPS - Teacher Assessment in Primary Science

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TAPS Assessments for Scotland

https://taps.pstt.org.uk/whole-school/the-taps-focused-assessment-approach/taps-scotland-draft-materials/

https://pstt.org.uk/unique-resources/taps/

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Where can I get access to the TOM assessments/documents?

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www.techfest.org.uk

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Multiple schools feeding in to the next

Alternative pathways other than Nat5

Each learner’s line is unique

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Dundee

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From a primary teacher

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We still teach in the silos of ELC, Primary and Secondary yet we all teaching BGE. How do we come together to create a more continuous experience of skills and knowledge in science?

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The discussion between primary and secondary colleagues highlighted the need for a common digital skill set moving up as part of transition. Has anyone got a good model of this?

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Millburn Academy surveyed learners about digital learning in 2019 after 2 years of one chromebooks per pupil. This webpage summarises the results.

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Millburn Academy has been using 1:1 Chromebooks per learner and Google G Suite tools since January 2018. The impact on learning is evidenced in this summary of results from an online summary carried by most of the school.

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Google doc version - please make a copy or download as Word file.

Rubrics for assignment as Google sheet for import into Google Classroom task

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-lrv6enSlcbFF8XSpRT3uTbz9qMKsdrynomZ1HvB_yk/edit?usp=sharing

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Where do we find the time for everything

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Exams (as we know them) did not exist!

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I loved the idea of the Hackathon- of pupils starting with a problem then coming up with solutions. This feeds into the pupil led learning which is one of our main aims.

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Interested in getting people in / going out & building partnerships, sharing that all learners have something to offer.

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What a fantastic network available to support STEM in schools

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I get disheartened when even S3 pupils ask when we will do an experiment and I have to explain that we don’t have loads of time for experiments. I understand that assignments add a lot to teacher workload but I think it is more beneficial to learners than just learning loads of facts for traditional exams. Exams need to evolve!

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I want my pupils to lead their own learning and set their own goals in science. I’m interested in working with Techfest to look at workshops/e/projects where we ensure pupils have the baseline skills and then the opportunity to apply and take these further solving their own problems and making their own discoveries on the way.

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Our learners need to see the connection between what they are learning and what job it can be used in. We need lists of industry contacts (that we don't have to create ourselves!) that are willing to come in to schools to inspire our learners.

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Fantastic use of context and links to the world of work

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Considering how we can develop this in ASN - maybe using this as a whole school project / family learning opportunity? Everyone working on a similar project & sharing the learning.

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Non-contact time may need increased to allow teachers to be more creative / evolve courses

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Need more focus on social development and development of 21st century skills in schools. From that we can encourage and nurture individuals interests.

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Focus on STEM and development of Metaskills from Early Years, throughout primary and secondary.

Seeing the bigger picture - journey from early years through to employment.

Industry partnerships

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I thought it was interesting/disheartening that according to the Eskogen report that science stops being "fun" as children move through education and increasingly becomes "hard". Is this due to exams? Little flexibilty in what can be taught/explored as learners move into senior phase?

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What fantastic work in Nursery and I loved the floor books. That project would make a great transition project!

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Very much looking forward to inviting some into my school to enthuse about STEM. Also hoping to take advantage of TechFests ability to provide challenges and workshops in school to get more STEM buy in from BGE

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Teachers need flexibility within the curriculum and it perhaps needs to be less prescriptive. Interested to see how the Es and Os and the benchmarks will evolve with the reform.

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Seems like a great transition between primary and secondary settings. A way to continue similar teaching styles and build and encourage enthusiasm. Allows for communication between settings as well.

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Create learning outcomes with feeder schools to ensure continuity amongst learners coming to high school.

This will allow secondary teachers to assess what the next stages are

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Great idea to have a room dedicated to NHS applications. Like the idea of solution based learning

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Great idea to have a room dedicated to NHS applications. Like the idea of solution based learning

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Our school attends the annual Techfest event at RGU every year and each year group has found it beneficial. On attending today's spotlight session, I have discovered that there's so much more input that they could provide. I think that having the industry links is really important and I'm excited to talk with them to try to get people from industry to come in to school to try inspire our learners. In our catchment, our learners need to make the link between what they are learning and what it could lead on to if they continue to work hard - we need to break the generational reliance on not working and just being on benefits.

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Loved the floor books and keen to explore how this can be used to promote early literacy skills in the ASN setting / developing meaningful and relevant opportunities and contexts for learning as we refresh our curriculum.

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Very interested in the Excelrrate program as I feel partnership working is key to enriching the curriculum offer and bringing it alive. This can be hard to have the time to pursue and sustain so this project sounds great. Will look into a link with NHS.

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This is a fantastic resource and we used it with whole school last year, great activities, great cost and all children achieved their certificates and were so proud of their achievements.

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Really enjoyed this rotation. It was really informative and was great to see the resources used for planning the initiatives. I am really interested in Hackathon and think this idea is great and would benefit the whole school. It has given me ideas for IDL and project based planning.

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Love the floor books and that these are accessible to the children and can be revisited/added to at a later date. Also the use of photos, children’s words and their drawings so it really is the voice of the child. Wonder how this could be used/adapted further up the school for IDL.

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Focus on STEM from the Early Level.

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I loved going to TechFest in primary school and remember not doing much with them in Secondary school. We also don’t engage much with TechFest in the secondary school I now teach in and I am interested to know what we could be doing. I look forward to going through their resources and discussing with our BCSO.

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Really enthused and excited about the range of projects offered. Some link perfectly with the 'World' themes that we do for IDL.

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Really enthused and excited about the range of projects offered. Some link perfectly with the 'World' themes that we do for IDL.

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Great to hear that there is 'someone' to go to help facilitate getting resources into school and go to locally. Especially cutting the costs of getting quality workshops up to Scotland from the south.

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Interesting to hear other ways we can accomplish digital literacy in the classroom.

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Interesting to hear other ways we can accomplish digital literacy in the classroom.

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Great idea to have a dedicated room for NHS technology. Solution based learning will go a long way to helping motivation. 

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Great idea to have a dedicated room for NHS technology. Solution based learning will go a long way to helping motivation. 

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This looks fantastic and excited to share it with class, especially to have such a focused and targeted approach to STEM with children.

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Pbl and interdisciplinary learning (hackathon) would be a great platform to allow students to link all their learning from every subject.

Introduce competitions

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Have helped to reduce any anxieties about how easy it is to introduce PBL into the curriculum

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Project based learning is  greta way to teach BGE science. Giving pupils the experience to work hands on is great fot them. Will be implementing it at my school.

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Project based learning is  greta way to teach BGE science. Giving pupils the experience to work hands on is great fot them. Will be implementing it at my school.

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I love how you can look at the colour mixing book through a science lens. I would have looked at it via an inclusion way. However, thinking about Science IDL and incorporating that within our curriculum, looking at science and art and inclusion can be possible

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I love how you can look at the colour mixing book through a science lens. I would have looked at it via an inclusion way. However, thinking about Science IDL and incorporating that within our curriculum, looking at science and art and inclusion can be possible

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Discussion included

Staff confidence and training.

Use of pupils as digital leaders

Staff to record “how to..” videos

Hardware and infrastructure were issues for a few schools/authorities

Artificial intelligence was seen as a challenge and a potential aid to learning

Digital learning was seen as especially useful for learners with additional needs

GDPR issues have blocked some previously useful apps in primaries. Cooperation between authorities is needed to find alternatives.