D. The MIICE outcomes related to the management of learning
10. Self esteem/confidence
This relates to schools', teachers' and school managers' policies and practices in helping learners to feel a sense of community, to take pride in their work and to be willing to experiment
Here is a small number of illustrations from a variety of Scottish schools and education authorities of each of the 3 components. In each case there is one or more related capacities associated with A Curriculum for Excellence
10. Self esteem/Confidence: use of ICT to enhance school ethos
Mark Melville teaches at Gullane Primary School in East Lothian. He has set up an after-school ICT club, in which he and his P7 pupils provide ICT training for over-50s from the local community. In this session Mark and the pupils help the older participants to send emails with attachments
"the over-50s learned about attaching a document to an email and have become more confident in using email in general" (Mark Melville of Gullane Primary)
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- Confident individuals: achieve success in different areas of activity
Audrey Richardson teaches a P6 at Hoddom Primary School near Lockerbie. For the last four months her pupils have been building their personal websites, using Word. Most of the children have already produced their 'main page' which includes information about their families, their school etc. In today's class Audrey shows the children how to create links in their web pages using hyperlinks
Building personal websites in Word
"the pupils have used the hyperlink tool successfully and managed to link their hobby page to their personal main page" (Audrey Richardson of Hoddom Primary)
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- Confident individuals: develop and communicate their own beliefs and view of the world
10. Self esteem/Confidence: encourage pride in work
Iain Stanger is a PE teacher at Banchory Academy. He is incorporating the use of the Dartfish Dart Trainer video analysis software into a 55-minute basketball lesson for a co-ed S3 Standard Grade PE class containing 26 pupils of mixed ability
"The pupils were able to see an extremely large image projected onto the wall and this made the analysis easier" (Iain Stanger of Banchory Academy)
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- Successful learners: make reasoned evaluations
10. Self esteem/Confidence: encourage enterprise and the exploration of new approaches
Russell Williams teaches a composite P6/P7 class at Sheuchan Primary School in Stranraer. As a way of developing his pupils' creative use of language, he has devised an animation project. The pupils write their own scripts, make models out of clay and produce a short stop-frame animation using a webcam and Pinnacle Studio editing software
"the pupils interacted and worked together very well" (Russell Williams, Sheuchan Primary School)
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- Successful learners: use literacy, communication and numeracy skills
Alice Mullay teaches music to pupils from early years to S4 at Baltasound Junior High School in Unst in Shetland. This class, with a group of 12 P3 and P4 pupils, is part of a project on minibeasts. The pupils compose short musical themes for a variety of minibeasts and record them onto minidisk. In the studio, Alice transfers the themes to the computer and then works with the pupils on arranging the tracks to create a final minibeast composition
"technology gives added excitement and that producing a CD takes music into the real world" (Alice Mullay, Baltasound Junior High)
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- Effective contributors: create and develop