| Learning Curve at SETT (FAiS and Pathways - TESS) |
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| Friday, 01 October 2004 01:00 |
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However, what many of them were looking for when they came to the Scottish Education and Teaching with Technology show last week was practical techniques they can use in classrooms today. "All the questions I got were about down-to-earth stuff," says Lee Carson, a P7 teacher at Queensferry Primary in Edinburgh and an ICT enthusiast, who had been telling a packed room about whole-class, interactive numeracy teaching. His methods will shortly appear as a case study on Learning and Teaching Scotland's website. "People want to know what you can do in a given time with a certain resource," he says. "They see so many good things here, but their schools can't afford a lot of them, and there aren't enough hours in the day to use them all anyway. Pupils are not the only focus of the technology at the SETT show. Formative Assessment in Science from the Edinburgh-based company Learning Curve Software, is exactly what headteacher Karen Noble, of Juniper Green Primary in Edinbugh, was looking for to help her staff address the recommendations of the national Assessment is for Learning programme, she says. "It is specifically aimed at science, but is more widely applicable." A great new resource from the company is Pathways CPD, she says. The toolkit supports teachers in planning and managing their professional development. "It also lets headteachers keep track of probationers and generates all the CPD documents the General Teaching Council for Scotland needs. It's beautiful." |