So the PT Conference is over. How did it go?
The feedback from the 76 participants has been incredibly positive - both the formal evaluations and the verbal comments - but did it meet our objectives?
There were three key objectives of the conference:
promote the concept of Principal Teachers as leaders of learning;
create, promote and extend a community of [...]
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Our response to the Curriculum for Excellence initiative has been to concentrate on developing the learning and teaching process. Part of that strategy is the forthcoming Principal Teacher’s Conference to be held on the 23/24th February. We have 60 participants already signed up and hope to hit 80 by the end of next week. This figure [...]
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Just before Christmas we sent out invitations to all of our Principal Teachers for our inaugural PT conference to be held on the 23/24 February. It was gratifying that on returning after the break that over 30 people had alrady put their name down for the event.
The event is entitled “Principal Teachers: Leaders of Learning” [...]
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We have finalised the date for the Principal Teacher Conference for the Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th February. Invitations will be coming out next week to all PTs (nursery, primary and secondary)
The event will begin on Friday afternoon - with a keynote address and some time for discussion; then dinner in the evening.
The Saturday will probably [...]
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We held our third Principal Teacher seminar on Monday. This was the third in a series of five and our development strategy is emerging through these discussions.
We have agreed to organise a conference in the new year for all PTs in East Lothian starting on a Friday lunchtime and finishing on the Saturday afternoon. The [...]
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I’m attending a 24 hour conference on public service reform.
Colin Mair - CEO of the Improvement Service for Scottish Local Government set out the national context:
The comprehensive spending review of government spending will result in flat financial settlements to the public sector over the foreseeable future. The result of this will be limited real growth [...]
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I’ve had some great feedback from head teachers this week about the swapshop session we ran at the recent head teachers’ conference. I think the photos show how engrossed people were in sharing their ideas. Take, for example, this photo showing Willie Galbraith HT Preston Lodge HIgh School and Anne Burke, HT Lorretto RC Primary school.
As [...]
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Dave Wharton (HT West Barns Primary) and Lorna McLeod (HT Meadowpark School)
We had a great day today at our first HT conference of the session.
The event was marked by a real sense of partnership between all participants.
We finished the afternoon session with a swapshop where people swapped ideas about how they are developing learning and [...]
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Left home at 5.50am to get to Dundee for the conference. Edinburgh bypass was clogged at 6.30am!! Got to Dundee for 9.00am. My
presentation seemed to go down reasonably well. I had lunch with Heather Reid “BBC’s Heather the Weather”, who was chairing the event; Bernard McLeary, Chief Exec’ Learning and Teaching Scotland ;and Colin Brown, [...]
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I’ve taken a day’s leave today. Spent some of the time preparing for a
presentation I've been invited to make at the Outdoor Connections Conference to be held in Dundee tomorrow. Here’s the blurb:
“The conference is part of an outdoor education development programme which the Scottish Executive has asked Learning and Teaching Scotland to take forward. [...]
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