As part of our section meetings, we have a standing agenda item which is for members of the teaching team to briefly detail aspects of good practice. For the 2010-11 academic session, here are a few examples as way of illustration:
Development of a Google site for Higher English classes and an e-portfolio for the CPCs.
Development of materials to encourage student engagement based on understanding of Moving Image Education. This was demonstrated to the team by way of PowerPoint presentation delivered to a Higher English class, before taking them to the Learning Centre to create their own. It was concluded that it was a good class activity but the amount of time allowed for it needs to be managed carefully.
Adaptation of materials for the Writing Skills half unit for use in college. They were previously only available on D2L.
Research into Web PA software which allows online peer assessment. Exploration into the possibility of using it in the Working in a Project Team HN unit.
Rewriting of materials for the Workplace Communication units being taken by Motor Vehicle students.
Development of a talking task originally developed to engage and involve Fast Forward classes in their learning. It involves each student making a “pitch” to the class to persuade the group to watch their choice of film. A vote is taken to determine the best pitch. This was adopted by some members of the teaching team and developed to include film trailers to critique with great success.
Development of blogs and wikis with numerous classes. One blog was made into a boklet for students from a pdf file.
Team teaching and assessment in a variety of classes.
A member of the teaching team attending a series of classes on British sign language.
A video diary was piloted with CPC classes using Flip cameras.
Filming video CVs with the Sport and Fitness classes was adopted in the academic session.
Members of the team took their English classes to the theatre to see ‘A View from the Bridge’.
A number of class magazine were put together by various members of the team.
Updated integrated assessments for Nursing and Care classes with work placement activities were adopted.
Clickview was use extensively by members of the team and documentaries such as ‘Smoking and the bandits’ were shown to a variety of NQ classes. This was well received and generated an interesting discussion in line with CfE principles.
One of the members of the team attended a course run by LTS on teaching non-traditional texts in English such as graphic novels and film. They also reported a successful student activity using stills from a film on PowerPoint for discussion in class.
Materials on leadership and communication styles with the NQ Sports group were used, to link with writing about a sporting hero as well as other elements of the NQ course.
Photos have been used successfully to help swift identification of large student groups, especially useful with duplicate groups. An arrangement was made for foreign students on HN Communication courses to have regular session with Anne Munnoch from ESOL.
Poetry materials were developed with a Higher English class andthe idea of a “stair meeting” was used to help establish importance of meeting procedure with HN groups.
Smart board materials were used to help teach grammar (main clause and subordinate clause etc) as well as kinaesthetic approaches involving moving round room to indicate answers to simple grammar questions.
An ambitious project with the “Working with Communities” class was completed, built round planting daffodils in the college grounds. A report was written up on the process and implementation of this project and was received positively cross college.
Revision exercises for candidates taking Higher English were updated using materials developed by other team members.
Revision exercises for Higher English students were used including the '20 questions' format that worked particularly well last year.
In a collaborative short project, a set of yearbook questions for the Sports Coaches were devised and a publication produced in pdf format for students and staff.
Representatives from Standard Life were very keen to be part of the curriculum at SCE and delivered several workshops on presentation skills. They also offer Skills for Life sessions too and this idea will be taken forward for 2011-12 to foster links with industrial partners.
Extended integrated investigative report on renewable energy were devised. There was concentration on stylistic writing on a one to one basis.
There was some success with Prince’s Trust students who have been working on reflective writing documents relating to their work placements.
A member of thr team has been working closely with Carole Paterson with her NQ Business students on a ‘franchises’ unit. She has been developing materials for drop box purposes on the D2L.
Good use of the Flip camera has been made with some Working Within A Project Team students. This has been used mainly for the group presentation formative element and there has been great success developing detailed market research into the Visit Scotland brief. A lot of employability skills were incorporated into the curriculum and the students have been analysing and evaluating tourism and tourists within various sectors. This could be of great use to the Computing and Tourism sections within the college.
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