FLaT
Central and Western Education Authority Areas
- Falkirk: Leading Teachers
Two year project in which proven effective secondary teachers are appointed and given time to coach and mentor colleagues in approaches to effective learning and teaching while undertaking related professional enquiry modules which could potentially be accreditable to the Chartered Teacher qualification. - East Renfrewshire: Making Personal Learning Planning Processes a reality in the Secondary School
Project looking at developing an effective model of personal learning planning that is suitable for secondary schools. - Dumfries & Galloway: Instrumental Music Lessons through Video Conferencing
Project aims to explore an innovative approach to instrumental instruction through the delivery of lessons to rurally isolated schools via the medium of video conferencing. - East Ayrshire: Developing Young People's Fluency in Reading & Writing in Gaelic
Project focussing on raising achievement in written and spoken Gaelic among young people in Gaelic primary and secondary immersion, whose home language is English. - East Renfrewshire: Use of Interactive Computer Driven Whiteboard with 5-14 Curriculum
Project at Neilston Primary School exploring the use on interactive technologies (interactive whiteboards and voting technology) in gauging levels of understanding in aspects of the 5-14 curriculum. - East Renfrewshire : Arts at the Heart
Project to artistically improve the interior and exterior design of a new primary school being built in 2005 and 2006. The education authority will partner the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation to develop the first MUS-e project in Scotland that builds partnerships across Europe. - East Renfrewshire : Confident to Earn
Initiative to create curriculum materials that unite the areas of citizenship, creativity and enterprise. Young people will be encouraged to develop their views to take positive risks in tackling their own employability and employment. - East Renfrewshire : Super Spark Initiative
Project to support disaffected young people in secondary schools in East Renfrewshire. Spark of Genius (Training) Limited will work with schools to educate young people of school leaving age, in school and in the community. - Glasgow : Arts and Minds - St Mungo's Learning Community
Project will establish programmes to demonstrate the scope of music to improve listening, language and literacy skills, to promote students' creativity and shared enterprise, and to raise and sustain aspirations for achievement and attainment within a Learning Community. - Clackmannanshire : Community of Philosophical Enquiry
Project looking at the intergration of the practice of philosophical enquiry into Clackmannanshire secondary schools . - West Dunbartonshire : Articulate
Project exploring the impact of arts methodology and practice on learning and teaching in different areas of the curriculum. - Glasgow : Learning for Living & Earning Programme
Staff development initiative exploring the opportunities in Education for Work to create a rationale/narrative for lifelong learning from pre-school onwards. - North Lanarkshire : Music Comprehensive Pilot
Project looking at new ways of using participation in music to improve ethos and raise levels of achievement and attainment. - East Ayrshire : Activating Children's Thinking Skills'(ACTS)Project
Project looking at introducing the infusion approach to the development of thinking skills across the curriculum to staff and upper primary pupils using the A.C.T.S approach. - Dumfries and Galloway: Curriculum Flexibility Project
5 year programme of curricular change designed to provide greateer flexibility and more appropriate learning experiences for an increasingly diverse pupil population. - West Dunbartonshire : Dynamic Futures Programme
Project focusing on pupils in P7 who have been identified as having problems with emotional literacy. Will assist with the transition to S1 and supporting them through S1 into S2. - Inverclyde : Enterprise Centre Project
Creation of an school enterprise centre to provide a more flexible work-place style environment in which lower achieving students may learn. This will also being used as a community resource. - Glasgow : Learning Communities Pilot
Evaluation of a project which looked at the impact of developing a collaborative learning group involving pre-school centres, schools and support agencies in east end of Glasgow. - Glasgow : Critical Skills Programme Pilot
Project within the Glasgow Learning Communities pilot. This is exploring the use of new models of learning and teaching. - North Lanarkshire : Sports Comprehensives Pilot
Use of sport to encourage inclusion and promote self-esteem. - West Lothian : E-schools Project
Looking at how ICT can improve school organisation and management to free up more time for learning and teaching.