Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream

What is ed lecture

Hey everyone! Today's guest lecturer for What is Ed was Graham Allen, who is the Environmental Manager in Swansea Metropolitan University and he talked about Sustainable Education. He talked a great deal about the many parts of Sustainable Education, here are some of the points he made:

• Education is critical for promoting sustainable development.
• Agenda 21 (Clarifies and extends ability, encourages students to reflect, debate and form opinions

Coporate responsibility involves:

• Coroporate strategy
• Integration
• Management
• Performance and impact
• Community
• Environment
• Market Place
• Work Place

Digression: The benefits of growth involves:

• Employment
• Income increases
• Decrease in poverty
• Improves standards of living
• Economic stability
• Creativity
• Innovation

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Causes:War

• Deforestation
• Crime
• Pollution

Not included:

• Loss of natural resources
• Caring work
• Womens work

Employment

• Sharing work hours
• Higher working hours means less marginal benefit
• Shorter working
• hours means more jobs and more leisure time.

Political Strategy

• The public can be part of the trnssition to sustainable society
• Global down-turn is in part a result of avoiding the inevitable signs
• Public need leadership to work towards sustinability
• National Assembly has a duty to promote sustainable development in everything that it does

And the principles of embedding sustainable development as a central organising principle

• Long termism
• Integration
• Involvement

5 themes of ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship):

1. Links between society, economy, environment and our lives
2. Rights for the present and future generations
3. Relationship between power, resources and human rights
4. Local and global implications
5. Actions individuals cn take in response to the implications

Welsh Government recommends that ESDGC continues to be delivered through:

• Leadership
• Learning nd teching
• Practice within an HEI
• Partnership and community working
• Research

Finally! The three components of sustainble development are: environment, economic and social sustainability.

Well that's everything, toodles!

Visual communication with Suzie

Hey all, at the start of the lesson we carried on finishing the posters that we started last week on 'Sense of Place'. Once we finished, one person out of each group had to hold our poster up and describe what is on there and why.
Suzie then told with us about how metaphors are useful and important in images, songs, films etc. Suzie then asked us to think of as many songs with lyrics that are metaphors, ours were:

• Lady Gaga - Marry the Night
• Adele - Rolling in the Deep
• Rihanna - Only Girl in the World
• Shakira - Hips don't lie
• Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
• Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

We then looked at a pile of images that were advertising campaigns. We had to say what the metaphor was, and order the images (Most shocking proocking to least etc.)

Finally, we watched a clip of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech that inolved a great deal of metaphors. Some of the metaphors i noticed were:

• Thirst for freedom
• Drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred
• Ocean of prosperity
• Bank of justice is bankrupt
• Palace of justice
• Wallow in the valley of despair
• Justice flows like water

That's all for Vis Com this week, Toodles!!!

What is ed lecture

Hey all! This weeks lecture was with Olive Hopker, who is the Head of Planning and Development in Swansea Metropolitan University.
Olive talked to us about Collaboration-V-Competition in education. She talked about:

• Ministerial statements
• Employment and Governance Structure in Wales
• Collabortion and Competition Issues
• Regional Planning and the role of HEFCW (Higher Education Funding Council for Wales)
• Benefits and limitations for HEI (Higher Education Institute)

She also gave us examples of government statements from mostly Leighton Andrews, for:

• Schools / Further Education Sector
• Higher Education

What is ed seminar with Steve Gullick 13/2/12

This was our second and last seminar for what is education this term, and it was with Steve Gullick again. In this session he told us some more intereting facts about governors, this time focusing more on the whole of Wales. Some of the facts were:

• A large number of the governing body in Wales do not have the full number, and are short of community governors with a business background.
• Poor/deprived areas lack governors e.g: Valleys and rural areas (lots of little schools, low population)
• Stuart Ranson researched 'School Governors and Improvement in Wales' and found that the vast majority are white, middle class, middle aged. Not enough ethnic governors. This might be due to many factors: Racism? Lack of confidence? Perceptions? Language barrier?
• Not all governors are well trained, all 22 LEA's must provide free training. 14 of them said that a few governors were trained, a lot of courses are cancelled due to lack of interest, and 5 for lack of support.

Steve also told us that Peter Earley (London Institute of Education) researched the types of governors, and the amount of each one in Wales. He found that there were 4 types of governors: (Majority to least)

1. The Supporters' club
2. The Partners
3. The Abdicators
4. The Adversaries

Steve also gave us a copy of the Welsh Assembley Government's leaflet (That Steve produced) on Becoming a school governor.

What is ed seminar with Steve Gullick 6/2/12

This was our first seminar session with Steve Gullick, he talked about the health and safety aspect of being a governor. He gave us a few hyperthetical examples, on of them being:
' As a governor, you are obviously very concerned that health and safety matters are dealt with well at your school. This is usually th case, but the headteacher tells you that she is no structure to the way teachers prepare for overnight trips and visits for pupils. To deal with this situation the governing body sets up a working party of 3 governors and 2 teachers to produce a checklist for teachers to go through before they take an overnight trip. You are a member of the working party, what do you include on the checklist? '

Some of the things we included:

• Meeting with parents before trip
• First aid kits and a first aider
• Contact details and medical details, medication etc
• Food & drink, spare clothes, money etc
• List of pupils and staff, itinerary, risk assesment etc

He also told us the diference between strategic and tactical planning. Strategic being the governors (more long term) and tactical being the school (more short term).

Visual communication with Suzie

Hey all!
In this weeks lesson with Suzie, she dedicated the lesson to our project. As we have mentioned to her in the past few lessons that we are confused on what is expected of us, she told us the basic idea of "Sense of place". We then had to discuss in goups what we thought sense of place meant. We came up with the ideas:

• You know what you're doing in life
• Awareness / Belonging
• Content
• Goal / Friends / Relationships
• Knowledge and appreciation of surroundings
• Memories
• Physical location (A country, holiday destination etc.)

We then looked through magazines and cut different pictures and slogans, that we thought was relevant to sense of place, and stuck them onto a large piece of card. We will be finishing this next week.

 

That's all for now, toodles!

Exorcism of the last painting i ever made - Tracey Emin

I've got it all - Tracey Emin

Everyone i've ever slept with - Tracey Emin

To meet my past - Tracey Emin

My bed - Tracey Emin

Visual communication with Suzie

On Monday Suzie dedicated the majority of the lesson to show and discuss with us photos of the artist Tracey Emins art work. She showed us five photos:

• My Bed
• To meet my past
• Everyone i've ever sleptt with
• I've got it all
• Exorcism of the last painting i ever made

We then talked through each photo and we talked through what was happenning in each one, and what we thought she was trying to portray in the art work. We then gave our opinion on whether we liked it or not, why, and if we agreed with the artists interpretation.

Toodles! Photos of the art to follow :)

What is ed lecture

Hey everyone! Last monday we had a lecture for what is ed with Steve Gullick again. He carried on the topic of the governing body.
This time, he told us all about the contact between the school governors and teaching staff. And they are:

• Job interviews
• Informal visits to schools
• Celebrations e..: school concerts and productions
• Presntations at governing body meetings
• Link governors and their visits, e.g.: for SEN and for eah subject
• Staff disciplinary committee meetings

He also told us that a head teacher can physically stop a parent, police etc coming into the school but they cant stop inspeectors and governors; which i found very intersting. He also told us in detail the process of the staff disciplinary hearings. And the process of the headteacher sending out letters, the clerks role and also the four possible verdicts. Which were:

• No charge whatsoever
• 1st written warning
• Last warning
• Dismissal -> Appeal?

He also went back to a topic of last weeks lecture, which was: Should we have experts as governors? And would this cause tension?

All in all  very intersting lecture, toodles!

Last weeks guest lecture for What is Ed?

Hey guys, ive only now found my notes for last weeks what is ed lecture, so here's my belated blog.

So, the lecturer was Steve Gullick, who is the director for All Wales Centre for Training and Reserch. His topic for the lecture was the roles of the governing body. He discussed what they were, who who they, what roles they had in the school and how important they are. He also started a debate on should governors get paid, as they have such an important role in education, should they get a wage for the important duties they carry out for the school and the children.

He also talked about who makes up the governing body, and how it differs from primary to secondary school. So there'd be more parent governors in secondary compared to primay etc. Another thing i found interesting, was that if you are a parentt governor of a year 11 pupil, you still have to be a governor or the full 4 years, even if your child has left the school. He finally talked about the agenda of the meeting and the role of the chair, secretary and the clerk etc.

All in all, it was a very interesting lecture. Toodles!