SCOTTISH EDUCATION

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SCOTTISH EDUCATION
A QUESTION OF VALUES
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National Priorities should be based on values

• A shared strategic vision, understood and
  committed to by all
• A basis for selecting, sequencing and planning
  new initiatives
• A mechanism for managing potential tensions
  between different National Priority areas
• An underpinning and strategic framework which
  helps further develop and refine the National
  Priorities

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Our values based approach

• Establish a set of shared core values for ECLL
• Encourage school communities to identify and
  articulate their shared core values
• Draw on these values to help shape
  authority/school plans
• Use the approach to develop a sense of
  citizenship
• Use the approach to transform staff attitudes
  from compliance to commitment

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Values into citizenship
giving service to others
Belmont Academy
Barr Primary School

• Meals on wheels
• Peer mentoring
• Working in the Hospice
• Working with younger children
• Environmental projects
• Charity work
• Community volunteering

Crosshill Primary School
Queen Margaret Academy
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Promoting principled citizenship

• put children young people first
• listen to children young people and involve
  them in decision making
• challenge staff to live the philosophy not play
  professional games
• balance rights with responsibilities
• recognise our inter-dependence and work together
• remove hierarchies of authority
• welcome challenge change

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Transforming compliance to commitment
Active citizenship from the staff

• Lead PTs
• PT subjects
• Support staff
• Peripatetic posts
• 5-14 Co-ordinators
• CPD Co-ordinators
• Cluster Administration Managers
• Admin and Finance Officers
• Depute Heads Primary
• Depute Heads Secondary
• Unpromoted staff

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Adaptive leadership
Put yourself on the line

• you are not expected to follow the party line or
  verbally support what you do not agree with
• no one will get more than their fair share
• we are all expected to model the role of lifelong
  learners
• dont hide in hierarchies
• your job is to empower others
• you are expected to welcome constructive criticism

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Value input from young people
listen to motivate trust challenge Empower E
quip Inspire empathise with staff and children
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Issues that impede progress

• the McCrone structure is dated and does not fit
  with Curriculum for Excellence
• we are trying to develop capacities in children
  that we dont have as staff
• we dont always model what we advocate
• change involves sacrifice and some staff are
  comfortable, selfish or uncertain
• you seem to progress in education by agreeing and
  endorsing, not by understanding or questioning
• We have signed up to developing qualities that we
  have not clearly defined e.g. leadership

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Developing the 4 capacities
Creating an infrastructure
Determined to Succeed Childrens
Parliament Adaptive leadership Emotional
Intelligence Duke of Edinburgh Award Junior
Achievement Award Senior Achievement
Award Community Service volunteers Learning
Centre for 21st century
Chernobyl visitors at Muirhead Primary
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Courageous
Committed
Balanced
Caring
Positive
Creative
Compassionate
Ambitious
Enterprising
Tenacious
Responsible
Successful
Confident
Principled
Respectful