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Education Scotland

Education Scotland. Ken McAra HMI Lead Officer: Special/ASN Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012. Education Scotland: a new agency. Scottish Government’s national development and improvement agency for education

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Education Scotland

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  1. Education Scotland Ken McAra HMI Lead Officer: Special/ASN Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012

  2. Education Scotland: a new agency Scottish Government’s national development and improvement agency for education charged with providing support and challenge to the education system, from the early years to adult learning came into existence on 1 July 2011 Bill Maxwell Chief Executive

  3. Corporate Management Group

  4. our strategic objectives are to: lead and support the successful implementation of the curriculum build the capacity of education providers and practitioners to improve their own performance promote high quality professional learning and leadership stimulate creativity and innovation provide independent feedback on the quality of educational provision provide evidence-based advice to inform national policy develop our people and improve our organisational capability

  5. purposes of inspection? • provide assurance to users on the quality of education • promote improvement • provide evidence to inform national policy development

  6. a three-way partnership: schools evaluate the quality of their own provision supported and challenged by the education authority backed up by rigorous external evaluation quality improvement in education:“the Scottish approach”

  7. How well do children/young people learn and achieve? How well does the school support children/young people to develop and learn? How does the school improve the quality of its work? QI 1.1 Improvements in performance QI 2.1 Learners’ experiences QI 5.3 Meeting learning need QI 5.1 Curriculum QI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation

  8. Entitlements E1 E1 E2 E6 E6 E2 E3 E3 E5 E5 E4

  9. CfE Implementation Priorities 2012-13 assessment broad general education senior phase

  10. reflection and feedback? ken.mcara@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk

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