Posted in ASL, Learning and teaching on Sep 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
We heard from Valerie Irving, one of our Quality Improvement officers, this afternoon who had visited Oslo, Norway before the summer.
Two of the key principles which guide the education system are:
“The right for every student to have teaching adapted to his/her abilities within the class framework”
“The mode of teaching must not only be adapted to subject [...]
Posted in ASL, Early Years, Finance on Feb 27th, 2006 No Comments »
8.30-10.00 Directorate Meeting: Helen McMillan was at the meeting to discuss Early Years and Childcare, with particular reference to line management issues. The remainder of the meeting was taken up with routine business matters.
10.00 - 10.30 Met Maureen Jobson to reflect upon
The Standard for Headship - this is a useful document and sets out clearly [...]
Posted in ASL, Blogging, Education Committee on Jan 24th, 2006 No Comments »
8.15-9.45 Correspondence and phone calls
10.00-12.00 Education Committee - excellent presentation from Sheila Ainslie on Staged Assessment and Intervention. She really demonstrated a mastery of her brief and was well received by the committee - impressive stuff.
12.30 Met with Valerie Irving to complete a draft letter which HTs can use to send out to parents to [...]
Posted in ASL, Finance, Planning, School visits on Jan 11th, 2006 No Comments »
9.00-9.30 Met Seonad McGillivary, HT Stoneyhill, and Debbie Beveridge, HT Wallyford. They are in the office all day to participate in our new induction programme for HTs. In addition to meeting me they met, Alan Blackie; Carolyn Walker from Personnel; Derek Haywood; and Carolyn Smith, Finance. I managed to have lunch with them and showed [...]
Posted in ASL, Head Teachers, Social media, Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2005 No Comments »
No, not one of those days, I mean one of those days when everything goes right!
We had an exceptional meeting this morning involving all secondary headteachers, a Depute from their schools and number of education officers to consider curriculum and timetabling issues. We kicked off with a review of some of the mind maps I'd [...]
Posted in ASL, Assessment, CPD, Head Teachers, Integrated Children's Services, Learning and teaching, Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2005 No Comments »
7.30-900 am correspondence and paperwork. 9.30am Out to Ross High School Severe and Complex Needs Unit. Really enjoyed my morning meeting the staff and students. There is no doubt that it takes a special sort of person to work with children such differing needs but the rewards are enormous. I met Alec, Nicola, Sean, Elizabeth, [...]
Posted in ASL, Leadership, Management on Sep 27th, 2005 No Comments »
Met Judith Kyle, Depute HT, Dunbar Grammar, at 8.30am to discuss comptency frameworks. Judith spent some time last session shadowing at the Royal Bank of Scotland. She observed some very interesting practice which has potential for our schools. I showed Judith the 360 degree framwork for senior managers and we agreed that many people will [...]
Posted in ASL, School visits on Sep 15th, 2005 No Comments »
Departmental Management Team Meeting first thing. Main agenda item was Department restructuring. Some key points were recommended for agreement with unions and other interest groups. 1. We want to retain the positions of Head of Education and Head of Children's Services. 2. We will be recommending that we don't adopt the area split proposed in [...]
Posted in ASL, Head Teachers on Aug 31st, 2005 No Comments »
Got into work about 7.15am to clear my feet before what I knew was going to be a busy day. I've always enjoyed that time in school before anyonelse is around - I always seem to get through so much more than at the end of the day.
Met Sheila Ainslie and Fiona Brown of Pupil [...]
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