Overview:
What Lynda is Currently Working On
I am currently working with a variety of local authorities, cluster schools and individual schools throughout Scotland and the UK. All of this work focuses on the implementation and philosophy underpinning Curriculum for Excellence and principles underpinning effective teaching and learning in Nursery and Primary Schools.
My Courses and consultancy are delivered on a full day, half day, and twilight basis. I also present workshops for Parents.
Staff Development themes include:
Curriculum for Excellence: Mathematics and Effective Teaching and Learning in Maths in the Nursery and Primary School
- Developing Active Learning approaches
- Progression through and across the outcomes and experiences
- Numeracy across learning
- Mathematics through Stories
- Developing an authority policy for Numeracy and Mathematics
- Assessment in Mathematics
- Developing subject knowledge in all aspects of Early and Primary Maths
- Creating the Environment for Maths in the classroom
- Developing Thinking Skills and an Investigative approach
Taking Learning Outdoors
- The potential of outdoor learning in Maths
- Developing outdoor learning in the Nursery
Early Literacy
- Storymaking and story creating with young children
- Planning an Early Years Literacy programme
- Creating a literacy – rich environment in the Early Years
Using Active learning approaches in Road Safety
Exploring Speed through Active Learning
Exploring Speed through Active Learning is a resource pack which I have written for primary teachers. The pack contains a range of active learning opportunities linked to Curriculum for Excellence from Early to Second Level.
For further details see strathclydecameras.com
