Course structure

+++

Grief & Bereavement Education

++++

Seasons for Growth 

• Duration of course: 2 days
• Cost: £230 (includes catering)

Venue

St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow  G3 6NH 

Course audience

An invitation to all staff interested in Grief Education - with particular reference to Primary, Secondary, Additional Support Staff, Psychologists, classroom / pupil assistants, EAL support staff.

Course content/aims

This two day event is an exciting opportunity for class teachers and senior managers in schools to explore a programme rooted in the best that contemporary psychology and education have to offer. 

Seasons for Growth is a loss and grief education programme catering for young people aged 6 - 18 years. It is based on the belief that grief is a normal and valuable part of life itself and that children and adolescents need to be provided with the opportunity to examine how grief as a result of death, separation or divorce, has impacted on their lives. The educative process underpinning Seasons for Growth provides the opportunity for each participant to integrate, at his/her developmental level, the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand and to cope with loss and grief.

The purpose of this two day workshop is to equip teachers to assist young people to understand the grief that is experienced because of the loss of a parent or significant other through death, separation or divorce. Attendance at the Seasons for Growth course will enable and qualify educators to run a Seasons for Growth peer support group for young people within the school setting.

Information about the tutor

The course will be led by Mary Lappin who is a Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Glasgow.  She has extensive experience and expertise in the field of Grief and Loss Education and pioneered the introduction of the 'Seasons for Growth' Grief Education programme in Scotland. 

This course can be commissioned by schools / local authorities and any other interested parties. For further information and to negotiate suitable delivery date(s) please telephone 0141 330 3036 or email education-cpd@glasgow.ac.uk

----

---

+++

English

++++

Using Exemplars to Improve Attainment in National 5 English

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 9.30am–3.30 pm

Audience 

This entirely practical, full-day workshop is aimed at Secondary English teachers, including Probationers, who would like to consider ways of challenging pupils to produce excellent results at National 5 level, using exemplification explicitly.

The cost of the full day course will be £150 per person, including lunch and coffee. The course will be held in the St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH.

• Register here

Please bring a laptop computer to the meeting.

Content

1. The course will begin with a contextualisation of the current discourse on feedback, internationally.
2. A description of a protocol to support pupils to generate their own feedback.
3. A synopsis of the key challenges faced by pupils at National 5 with suggestions on how to address them.
4. Scrutiny of exemplars for both portfolio writing (am) and critical essays (pm).
5. Participants will work individually/in pairs/groups to create power points/word documents which will support pupils identify the key strengths of each exemplar.
6. These will be shared with all participants.

Exemplars of creative and discursive writing ranging from 15/15 to 12/15 will be used. The strengths of each script will be identified, and we will also compare each script to the other as well as considering how leaners can develop their writing skills by using non-exemplar materials. This procedure will be repeated with critical essay exemplars covering a range of genres again from the higher ranges from 20/20 to 16/20.

This workshop will be led by Professor Willie McGuire, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), Senior Fellow of the Staff and Education Development Association (SFSEDA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Programme Leader for the MEd (Prof Prac) and Course Co-ordinator for PGS English within the School of Education. Willie has been a leading figure in national developments in English for over three decades as a National Qualifications Development Specialist, Examiner, and Setter for the SQA. He is also a former Local Authority Quality Improvement Officer, Staff Tutor, and Principal Teacher. He has won several teaching excellence awards as well as the Vidya Ratan award from India for research excellence. 

Comments from participants on previous courses

• Excellent. Great to get a chance to work with colleagues to produce materials.
• At last, someone who speaks our language.
• Practical and very worthwhile.
• Set a really nice tone for the course.

----

++++

Using Exemplars to Improve Attainment in Higher English

Wednesday 1 November 2023, 9.30am-3.30pm

Audience

This entirely practical, full-day workshop is aimed at Secondary English teachers, including Probationers, who would like to consider ways of challenging pupils to produce excellent results at Higher level, using exemplification, explicitly.

The cost of the full day course will be £150 per person, including lunch and coffee. The course will be held in the St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH.

• Register here

Please bring a laptop computer to the meeting. 

Content

1. The course will begin with a contextualisation of the current discourse on feedback, internationally.
2. A description of a protocol to support pupils to generate their own feedback.
3. A synopsis of the key challenges faced by pupils at National 5 with suggestions on how to address them.
4. Scrutiny of exemplars for both portfolio writing (am) and critical essays (pm).
5. Participants will work individually/in pairs/groups to create power points/word documents which will support pupils identify the key strengths of each exemplar.
6. These will be shared with all participants.

Exemplars of creative and discursive writing ranging from 15/15 to 12/15 will be used. The strengths of each script will be identified, and we will also compare each script to the other as well as considering how leaners can develop their writing skills by using non-exemplar materials. This procedure will be repeated with critical essay exemplars covering a range of genres again from the higher ranges from 20/20 to 16/20.

This workshop will be led by Professor Willie McGuire, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), Senior Fellow of the Staff and Education Development Association (SFSEDA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Programme Leader for the MEd (Prof Prac) and Course Co-ordinator for PGS English within the School of Education. Willie has been a leading figure in national developments in English for over three decades as a National Qualifications Development Specialist, Examiner, and Setter for the SQA. He is also a former Local Authority Quality Improvement Officer, Staff Tutor, and Principal Teacher. He has won several teaching excellence awards as well as the Vidya Ratan award from India for research excellence.

Comments from participants on previous courses

• Excellent. Great to get a chance to work with colleagues to produce materials.
• Brilliant. Loved it!
• Practical and very worthwhile.
• Willie is very funny. Really made the day.

----

---

+++

Science

++++

Teaching Higher Education Chemistry

• Duration: 1 day
• Cost: £120 (including lunch and coffee)

Venue

University of Glasgow, School of Education, St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NH. 

Audience 

This full day course is aimed at Secondary Chemistry teachers, including those teaching Higher for the first time.  The course will focus on the areas that candidates find most challenging and will seek to help teachers prepare students to achieve their best performance in the assignment and exam. 

Content 

Assignment support, including 

• Topic choice
• Challenging sections
• Providing appropriate support to students

Teaching areas of the course that students find demanding in the exam, including

• Open questions
• Questions based on practical work
• Questions on periodicity and bonding

Writing a prelim

Questions encouraged throughout

Information about the tutor

This course will be led by Clare Smith, Lecturer in Science Education (Chemistry) within the School of Education.  Clare holds a senior appointment in the Higher Chemistry team and has worked as a Setter, Examiner and Reviewer for SQA since 2011.  She has provided In-Service training for several Local Authorities and worked as a Chemistry Teacher and Chemistry Lecturer before joining the School of Education in May 2019. 

----

---

+++

Literacy

• Using Exemplars to Improve Attainment in Higher English: A Workshop (Wednesday 8 February 2023)

---

+++

Religious Education

• Setting Out on the Road

---

Course alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all courses as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a course. For more information, please see: Student contract.