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Radio Edutalk 08-12-2015: Iain White, Principal of Newlands Junior College in Glasgow

Iain White, Principal of Newlands Junior College in Glasgow.

Iain invites us to consider:

Is the comprehensive system in Scottish education a strength or are the limits of its uniformity of approach a product of the culture of conformity and compliance inherent in our system?
We need a system that meets the needs of young people. Therefore we need more creativity and flexibility in approach than presently exists. Discuss.
Tom Peters said, ’Show me a schoolteacher and I’ll show you someone that never coloured outside the lines in his life’. Thinking about Scotland, is he correct and are we missing the opportunities that Curriculum for Excellence provides?

Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons, ParsonsReilly.com, on ‘What makes an excellent Mathematics classroom?’

Links:

#aspirationaladvice from author, Ian Rankin. With Neil McLennan, co-chair of Young Academy of Scotland.

Dr Jonathan Delafield-Butt on ‘the role of movement in early social and emotional development, and implications for autism’.

Download some of Jonathan’s papers here and here.

Gill Friel on ‘raising attainment in children’s writing’.

Click here to access Gill’s images of pupils’ writing.

Dr Lio Moscardini, Course Leader MEd in Inclusive Education at the University of Strathclyde, on Cognitively Guided Instruction.

Is children's mathematical thinking the same as adults'?

Why might it be important to understand chidlren's mathematical thinking?