Angus : Moving Image Education
What is this?
This is a 4-year project, which is designed to look at the contribution that moving image education can make to children's education during the transition years P6-S2. The project will focus mainly on literacy attainment with a secondary focus on a small group of other key educational priorities.
The project is a collaboration between Angus Council, Angus Digital Media Centre, Scottish Screen and The British Film Institute (BFI). The project aims to embed moving image into the existing 5-14 curriculum. In year 1 the project will be introduced within all P6 classes in the Brechin area. The programme will then progress with these classes into P7 in year 2, while also repeating and improving the P6 provision. In year 3, the P6 and P7 provision will again be repeated and improved, while moving image education is developed across all S1 English classes in Brechin High School. In year 4, while repeating the P6-S1 provision as before, the project will expand in S2 to address additional areas of the curriculum.
Training will be provided by Scottish Screen, the BFI, and Angus Digital Media Centre staff, at the Centre and in school. A project leader has been employed to work closely with all schools involved.
FLaT involvement?
FLaT support is being provided to explore the use of moving image technology within education, and to assess its impact on levels of attainment and achievement.
Links with National Priorities?
1. Achievement and Attainment
2. Framework for Learning
5. Learning for Life
Project aims?
To use Moving Image Education to enhance literacy teaching across the transition years P6-S2;
To develop a sustainable practice by integrating moving image education incrementally into the curriculum;
To provide training and programme orientation for teachers and Council staff who will sustain the project long term (Cultural Co-ordinators, advisers, peripatetic staff etc.);
To provide schools with the necessary equipment to enable them to undertake a range of ICT-dependent creative activities;
To evaluate the impact of moving image education on attainment and achievement levels.
Project outcomes?
Improve 5-14 attainment levels in reading and writing in P6-S2;
Enhance core skills (pupils') in ICT and teamwork;
Increase range of teachers' skills in literacy teaching;
Enable participating staff to sustain and expand this new way of learning and teaching using the skills developed;
Expand the creative use of ICT in Angus schools;
Develop a more entrepreneurial approach to education and learning;
Strengthen links between primary and secondary and enhance school-home links;
Increase motivation especially among disengaged and under-achieving pupils.
Timescale?
The project was started in April 2004 and is due to be completed by June 2008.
Level of support?
FLaT support is a grant of £403,146 plus evaluation costs.
Who are the evaluation team?
The Department of Educational Studies at University of Glasgow led by Professor Eric Wilkinson and Dr Tina Besley.