Improving Our Classrooms
About the programme
Accredited December 2012
Improving Our Classrooms was developed to focus on classroom practitioners and support them in conducting a practitioner enquiry. It focuses explicitly on improvement through self-evaluation to identify aspects which can be changed and developed to promote improvement for learners.
In Glasgow, it is recognised that the quality of learning and teaching is the key to meeting the needs of learners and this course encouraged depth of learning over an extended period of time for class teachers. The key questions were not only ‘How well are we doing?’ but more crucially, ‘How do we make it better?’ Participants had to be clear about the actions that would be taken to make an improvement in learning and achievement.
The course was originally designed for primary teachers, but as a measure of its success, it was developed and piloted this year for secondary colleagues. Next session approximately sixty secondary teachers will take part. There have already been around one hundred and eighty primary graduates. Glasgow City Council was successful in having the primary course accredited for professional recognition and it is the intent to follow the same process for the secondary course. This will provide strong evidence for teachers’ professional update.
Contact
Jayne Rowe, Education Officer.
