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Joyning the Learning ... The Journey So Far
A reader to support teachers and managers as they implement CfE. This new publication will enable you to implement the methodology. It rehearses the rationale of Joyning the Learning and describes the process of managing curriculum change. It also offers advice on how to progress to the next stage of implementation, where the outcomes and experiences of CfE become the starting point for a Joyning the Learning experience. It discusses the issues of monitoring and assessment, setting assessment firmly within the Assessment is for Learning programme.
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Fairyland suitable for P1 - 3
When a sad dragon leaves a slightly singed letter at the end of a glitter trail in their classroom, the children know something different is afoot! The dragon enlists their help. Fairyland has disappeared and all his friends ( Little Red Riding Hood, the 3 Bears etc) have nowhere to live. Can the children help? And of course they do! Fairyland provides an interdisciplinary context for play based activities which help extend the active learning approaches used in pre 5 education.
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The Unsinkable Ship suitable for P4/5
The Unsinkable Ship has an environmental studies focus. It joins the learning in language, art and technology. The children become Secret Agents who respond to a series of Top Secret Missions. They raise the Unsinkable Ship from her watery grave and recreate her in all her splendour. Great fun! The topic incorporates formative assessment, collaborative and active learning approaches.
The Magic Castle suitable for P4 - 7
Imagine a classroom where the boundaries between reality and imagination are blurred. The classroom has been transformed by the children and their teacher into a magical place – perhaps the Great Hall of Hogwarts Castle (or the Great Hall of a Jacobean mansion). The Magic Castle is a language based topic which joins the learning from health and well being, art and technology. The skills of ICT and enterprise are embedded.
The VIB (Very Important Bear) suitable for P6/7
The VIB has a media focus and joins the learning from other curricular areas, in particular ICT, language and art. Personalisation and choice are important elements of the topic with children taking responsibility for researching aspects of film and film-making. They plan and make their own movies - starring the VIB - and mount eye catching wall displays. An Oscars ceremony of course results!
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Active, engaged ...and well behaved! Supporting cooperative learning in pre5, primary and secondary schools. Written by a classroom teacher for classrooms teachers this handbook offers many practical ideas and guides teachers in the process of creating a coop learning culture in their classroom.
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The Magic Carpet Let your children fly in more ways than one! Using a combination of imagination, artwork, oral story planning and a supportive template, many new lands will be visited and situations invented and resolved.
Meeting with an Alien By this stage, confident young writers are experimenting with zigzag books - a format which offers lots of opportunities to enhance the writing through ingenious methods of presentation.
Ghost Story The stories are longer and more complex. The illustrations and use of language become very sophisticated.
Realistic Record Keeping & Powerful Planning for Secondary A planning and record keeping format taking secondary teachers through Third and Fourth Levels using subject specific booklets
Realistic Record Keeping & Powerful Planning A planning and record keeping format taking teachers from Early Level through to the end of Second Level.
6 Case Studies - Joyning the Learning New topics exemplify how teachers have created their own interdisciplinary contexts and how their planning is moving forward from 5-14 content to CfE experience and outcomes.
Joyning the Learning publications
Curriculum for Excellence resources: book DVD to bring Joyning the Learning alive in your classroom.
Joyning the Learning... The Journey So Far Designed to help teachers and managers implement the methodology.
We Can Do That! A must-have for all those working with children in early years and older children with additional support needs.
PLC Toolkit This Toolkit of resources has been designed to provide information and materials that can be used to make the whole staff aware of the approaches it advocates and play a part in deciding how the school will take PLCs forward.
Why: a booklet about motivating young people How do you encourage all young people to ‘do their best’ in school and not simply enough to ‘get by’?
Motivation & Assessment Posters This set of 8 bright, colourful A2 posters will result in a lively discussion of motivational and assessment messages with pupils across the age range 10-16.
Journey 2 Motivation Pack Materials aimed at upper primary/early secondary students regarding their choices.
Assessment for Learning
Mark less to achieve more a short, readable and comprehensive book that ‘does the reading for you’.
CfE Skills Ladder Poster An introduction to our skills-based solution for ensuring we develop the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.
Concentrating Minds This book contains a selection of brain games that will excite, focus or calm young minds.
The Learnier Teacher Series Publications in the Learning Teacher Series