A little about what we do at SCE

The Communication and English teaching team deliver a range of courses and units cross college. The main focus of teaching can be divided into the following areas: 

• Intermediate and Higher English through the HIPS programme and evening class provision
• delivery of Core Skills Communication and HN Communication units on vocational courses across the college
• a range of Communication units facilitated and assesed via Open Learning
• Commercial courses

Specifically, we teach the following SQA Units:

• Intermediate One, Two and Higher English
• SCQF levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 Core Skills (Communication)
• Communication 4
• Introduction to Literature and Literature One
• Analysing and Presenting Complex Communication
• Complex Oral Presentation
• Oral Presentation Skills
• Working Within A Project Team
• HN Communication: Writing Skills
• Communication: Practical Skills - new for 2011-12
• Creative Writing (class based and manuscript appraisal) - new for 2011-12

It has been a longstanding conviction, and a cornerstone of the team’s professional practice, that effective learning and teaching must be flexible, innovative and harnessed to the need to develop a full range of capacities in learners. We believe Communication and English provision has always been responsive to the need to develop vocational skills and to undertake an integrative and more inclusive approach to learning.

Moreover, the introduction of the Curriculum for Excellence means that this can be extended further, especially in developing the four capacities in students to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors. Students are engaging in a lot of work that is self-reflective, addressing areas such as sustainability and citizenship.

The teaching team are committed to develop successful areas of best practice in teaching that are consistent with the CfE agenda. As a team, we feel we have been dynamic in trying to develop an integrative approach to learning that is genuinely meaningful and valuable to learners.