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. Course Reference No: CPD09 1.16

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Course Title: Education for All:  Managing Provision and Enhancing Outcomes
Dates(s): Wednesday 4 th and Thursday 5 th March 2009 (Venue: Acorn Centre, Inverurie West Parish Church )
Recall day 10 June 2009 (Venue: Kemnay Church Centre)
Duration:  9.30 am – 3.30 pm

How Good is our School?

Key Areas:  
  • Delivery of education
  • Impact of learners
  • Policy development and planning
    (The programme will obviously touch on other areas also)
Identified QI: 

2.1 - Learner's experiences

2.2 - The school's success in involving parents, carers and families

5.2 - The Curriculum

5.3 - Meeting learning needs

5.6 - Equality and fairness

5.7 - Partnership with learners and parents

6.3 - Planning for improvement

6.4 - Vision, values and aims
National Outcomes: 

•  Inclusion and Equality

•  Attainment and achievement

•  Citizenship

Aims: 

•  To explore the concept of inclusion and related values and principles and their implications for developing policy and practice in schools and communities

•  To apply this, and the requirements of current legislation and A Curriculum for Excellence to a critical review of policy and practice

•  To examine the importance of collaborative practice and integrated assessment in getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)

•  To consider the perspective and entitlements of parents/carers, children and young people

•  To test and apply a framework for auditing education for all and to use this to undertake a review of an aspect of current provision in the participants' own context

•  To draw on the outcomes of audit and review to inform improvement planning and the celebration of success

Course Facilitators and additional support:

Professor Donnie M MacLeod, Director of CIE (The Centre of Inclusion and Equity)
Brenda Frier (CIE)

http//:www.cie-learning.com

 

Additional follow-up support can be accessed from the facilitators to support the local planning and development required by the course.

 

The model and materials provided by the course will also offer a resource for professional development.

 

In addition online learning units can be made available to support related CPD and to provide access to a wider group of staff

Course Coordinator:  

Vaughan Jennings

 

Max No. of Participants:

25

 

Target Personnel:

Personnel within community school networks with a management responsibility for children, young people and families, e.g. Quality Improvement officers, Head Teachers, Deputes and Principal Teachers, and managers from social work, allied health services, leisure and community learning and development. Wherever possible participants are encouraged to attend as teams.

 

Course Requirements:

A commitment to enhancing outcomes for all children and young people.

 

A commitment to auditing, planning for improvement and a willingness to share outcomes

 

Funding Arrangements:

Course fees, cover, travel and subsistence will be paid by the Aberdeenshire Education, Learning and leisure

 

   

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