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Education Scotland
Ken McAra HMI
Lead Officer: Special/ASN
Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012
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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
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Corporate Management Group
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our strategic objectives are to:
1. lead and support the successful implementation of the
curriculum
2. build the capacity of education providers and
practitioners to improve their own performance
3. promote high quality professional learning and
leadership
4. stimulate creativity and innovation
5. provide independent feedback on the quality of
educational provision
6. provide evidence-based advice to inform national policy
7. develop our people and improve our organisational
capability
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purposes of inspection?
• provide assurance to users on the quality of
education
• promote improvement
• provide evidence to inform national policy
development
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quality improvement in education:
“the Scottish approach”
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
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• 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?
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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
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Entitlements
E1
E1
Coherent
Curriculum
E6 E6
Broad
General
Education
Positive &
sustained
destinations
E2
E2
Children
and
Young
People
E5
E5
Senior
Phase
Support
SLLW
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E4
E3E3
CfE Implementation Priorities 2012-13
• assessment
• broad general education
• senior phase
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reflection and feedback?
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