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on June 29, 2009 at 3:57 pm | Reply Mairi

Hi Bill,

It was good to meet you last week. I contacted Clive Gillman at DCA explaining that you would like to quote from the evaluation report and he will forward you a copy.

I found your presentation interesting and we certainly have similar positive views and concerns about the role out of Curriculum for Excellence. I thought it was just me getting a wee bit cynical in my old age!!! Like you I think that children need to be taught in the real world and facilitated to read /understand it and make informed decisions. There is a huge danger that in this blame culture we inhabit that we wrap children up cotton wool to the point that they are denied the experiences they need and deserve. Furthermore, I notice that many of my colleagues refer only to the outcomes for CfE and not experiences or they view that the practitioners role is to create experiences that will deliver a particular outcome. While this is a necessary part of the process I firmly believe that experiences are important in their own right. It’s truely open-ended experiences, with no defined outcomes, that are the richest learning mixes. Learners have to map out the way, assess situations, make deicisions, apply prior learning, co-operate, succeed, cope with failure, reflect etc. – MAKE CONNECTIONS – Sorry I’m rabbiting on and you know all this already.

Finally, wishing you all the best as you step out as a consultant. I stepped away from teaching last years at the end of the Scottish Screen secondment with a degree of trepidation but convinced that I needed a new direction. It has been a very interesting year where I have certainly learned a great deal about myself! Although I’ve not quite worked out the new direction yet – but there are lots of possibilities.

All the best,

Mairi
on June 29, 2009 at 10:03 pm | Reply literacyadviser

Hi Mairi,
Good to meet you last week as well, and thanks for your generous comments. You make a good point about some experiences being of value in themselves. Thirty years ago there would have been no need to even make this explicit as it was accepted that learning was good in and of itself. We seem to have lost that in recent, measurement-obsessed times.

Bill
on October 31, 2009 at 4:21 pm | Reply Danny Hoyle

Hi Bill,

Thanks for seminar today. I am looking for Baboon on the Moon online without any luck so far. Any ideas?

Thanks again

Danny
on October 31, 2009 at 6:07 pm | Reply literacyadviser

Hi Danny,
Thanks for coming. Baboon on the Moon is one of a collection of films produced by the British Film Institute (for 3-7 yr olds according to the pack but I think some of them can be used by kids who are older than that). You will find them at the BFI website as below.

http://www.bfi.org.uk

Good luck.
Bill
on November 2, 2009 at 9:11 am | Reply Judith

Thank you for course on Saturday – started mulling over new ideas – looking forward to discussing them l
on November 2, 2009 at 10:30 am | Reply literacyadviser

Hi Judith,
Glad you found it useful. I look forward to discussing some of these ideas with you in more detail too. See you soon.
Bill

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