Archive for April 2009
Assessment shift for the 21st century
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 22, 2009
This is a big topic of debate at the moment. On both the Education 2020 and ACfE wiki’sthere is some very reasoned and cogent argument about the construction of both new models and new concepts for assessment. I think the form that this takes is vital to the success, not only of ACfE, but also [...]
Percy comes to Cathkin Nursery…an update
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 17, 2009
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The recent GLOW meet of Percy the Puffin’s homecoming storytelling which our community nursery was involved in has had some good local press coverage..here is the link
event:http://bit.ly/6V8VS
The original blog post is at….
http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/percy-comes-to-cathkin-nursery/
A great first for our nursery- and a great introduction to GLOW for the children.
Subject specialism and ACfE
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 17, 2009
A few weeks ago, TESS published an article by Prof. Lindsay Paterson of Edinburgh University in which he argued that one of the main threats to ACfE was a lack of subject specialist knowledge in secondary schools.
This struck a rather dissonant chord with me, I have to say. I blogged about this a few months [...]
Johnny Bunko and Mark’s Gospel…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 16, 2009
It’s often said that ‘what goes around comes around’. I think this was bought home to me this week after the Easter Sunday Eucharist service sermon, preached in Glasgow’s Episcopal cathedral by the Provost, Kelvin Holdsworth. In his sermon, he talked about how Mark’s gospel just sort of ends – no real revelation, message or [...]
Think the unthinkable – what if ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 10, 2009
How often in education (or the public sector as a whole for that matter) is planning a matter of one issue=one solution via one distinct journey?
I’ve stood on the sidelines and watched with a curious interest so many school, authority and national education initiatives, projects, systems and policy changes take place, with varying degrees of [...]
Chapter 8 of A digital Fairy Tale – The end is in sight
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 6, 2009
After a wee spell of writer’s block , and some extreme self-censorship, I’ve finally done chapter 8. You can find it on the education 2020 wiki as usual… As the Islay Unconference draws ever nearer, the fairytale is getting closer to reaching its explosive climax…
And the unconference is looking to be really good, something special, with a [...]
Self-evaluation – a wider purpose ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2009
There’s a lot of this going on all over the country at the moment. The new HMIE-lite inspection regime relies upon schools undertaking rigorous internal quality assurance where the concept of using self-evaluation to inform and enhance both the learning and teaching and just as importantly the life and ethos of a school. I blogged [...]
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