Wednesday 9-11 seminar by

What did you like about school? What did you not like?

baschuler11 — 2025-02-12 07:26:17 UTC

What's the point of education?

baschuler11 — 2025-02-12 07:28:09 UTC

Who are the key people in Scottish education?

baschuler11 — 2025-02-12 08:48:13 UTC

PISA (again)

baschuler11 — 2025-02-12 09:19:30 UTC

Compare the information in the newspaper article with the blog and suggest what in the newspaper article is
Accurate
Misleading

Should we raise the school leaving age?

baschuler11 — 2025-02-12 10:04:08 UTC

Strictest headteacher 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - do you agree with him?

2025-02-19 07:10:21 UTC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxdkq51ywo

Finding school boring since 1225 AD (approx)

baschuler11 — 2025-02-19 07:24:49 UTC

Onfim the bored schoolchild is fed up with learning Bible verses. He wants to learn fighting, as he's going to be a warrior. And he likes drawing pictures of himself as a monster.

Curriculum reform

baschuler11 — 2025-02-19 07:33:26 UTC

Creativity and education

2025-02-19 08:47:12 UTC

Is creativity important? How could we encourage it in the classroom? What is creativity? Is everyone creative? Should we "test" people on it? Are there any issues with assessing children as "high" or "low" creative?

How would you make a curriculum? Who would you consult? What do people need to know?

2025-02-19 09:22:35 UTC

Education as political football...

baschuler11 — 2025-02-26 11:58:52 UTC

And here are the actual stats (newspapers are terrible at linking to the original source): Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations, No. 7: 2025 edition - gov.scot

Skills 4.0

2025-03-12 09:00:12 UTC

"Meta-skills"

What school used to be like...

baschuler11 — 2025-03-12 09:25:01 UTC

"Extra heavy" strap (this is from Linlithgow museum

All the stats

baschuler11 — 2025-03-12 09:26:05 UTC

Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence

baschuler11 — 2025-03-12 10:14:38 UTC

Do you think it was "excellent" (if you went to school here)?

Does it look "excellent" to you (if you didn't experience school here?)

England's National Curriculum

baschuler11 — 2025-03-12 10:14:48 UTC

Very different from Curriculum for Excellence...

Curriculum for Wales

baschuler11 — 2025-03-12 10:14:54 UTC

World Economic Forum and Defining Education 4.0

baschuler11 — 2025-03-13 08:22:42 UTC

"The Education 4.0 learning taxonomy presents a comprehensive set of skills, attitudes, and values to prepare young learners for well-being in the economies of the future." Which curriculum orientations can you identify in this? What values? Whose values -- who gets to decide?

Consultation with children & yp on UNCRC articles

baschuler11 — 2025-03-26 10:30:34 UTC

As part of this review: Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education

Wellbeing

baschuler11 — 2025-04-10 12:58:23 UTC

What do we do about sexism in schools? (and racism, ableism, religious bigotry...)

baschuler11 — 2025-04-10 13:08:05 UTC

Relevant for all essay topics (how would you make a curriculum which focuses on issues such as these? How does sexism impact on the wellbeing of pupils and teachers? Do we need to rethink how we teach inclusion? How could you use this example to help pupils think about rights (which includes respecting the rights of others)? What might this suggest about how we teach citizenship and why it matters (influence of views coming from social media, lack of political knowledge/engagement among the population and -- arguably-- lack of an education which supports people to reason and be able to assess evidence and weigh up different views?)

Nuzhat's article on misogyny in Scottish education

baschuler11 — 2025-04-10 13:13:42 UTC

What does it really mean to be a teacher who promotes social justice and challenges discrimination?

baschuler11 — 2025-04-10 13:18:56 UTC

See GTCS professional standards for teachers: A guide to the Professional Standards

Religious intolerance

baschuler11 — 2025-04-10 13:31:15 UTC

And it still goes on: Swinney to visit Busby school targeted in 'sectarian' attacks - BBC News

So how does this help children feel safe, included, promote their rights and wellbeing etc...? What can we do, in education, to tackle bigotry?

Are these sorts of resources useful or do they fail to address root causes? Tackling sectarianism - An overview of resources | Resources | Education Scotland

Anti-bullying policy

baschuler11 — 2025-04-11 09:32:37 UTC