Teacher Professionalism
156 teaching staff were provided support and training to ensure teaching staff maintained full registration with the GTCS through engaging with the Professional Update Process.
Year on year there has been an increase in the number of trained Forest School Leaders.
Through the Raising Attainment Challenge all practitioners at early level are trained to deliver learning through play.
20 Teaching Staff were given the opportunity to engage in Masters Level Learning which was funded through the West Partnership successful bid to Scottish Government.
Continue to ensure effective Terms and Conditions for all our Teaching Staff.
Probationer Teacher 1+2 Languages Showcase highlighted the excellent language learning taking place in our schools
All Early Phase Teachers including students in our schools had the opportunity to engage in collaborative professional learning.
Through our framework for Assessment and Moderation, teachers working across West Dunbartonshire work together to develop consistent approaches to assessment.
Developed an all encompassing recruitment process for supply teachers.
500 Practitioners registered to use WDC secure social media platform.
Developed resilience and a problem based approach to Numeracy in P4 and P5 pupils across the authority,
92% of probationer teachers gained a positive destination.
There has been an increase in the number of children experiencing well planned quality learning in the outdoors.
Developed of 'ourcloud' as an environment for collaboration and sharing
8 sites produced to share WDC resources (1+2, Learn through play, SIPP/CAR etc) introduced a WDC Educators Google+ Community to enable collaboration opportunities, with over 500 members of staff having voluntarily signed up to use.
Successful summer school in August 2015, the first WDC 'Space Academy'
Participation numbers were the highest for summer school; pupil, parent and staff evaluations extremely positive . Feedback from participants stated:
"I was nervous at first but not any more, made lots of friends"
"Helped me get used to high school I learned a lot as Space Academy and it was fun"
"It was brilliant and really fun Summer school was excellent, my child had a fantastic time"
"My girls really enjoyed it and would not stop talking about how much fun it was"
"It was very enjoyable, great work from all the kids and the staff involved in this brilliant idea"
"This has been a great experience for the children, it has especially helped settle the nerves for coming to secondary school"
Play based approaches to learning
All leaders, P1, early stages teachers and early years practitioners took part in training - approximately 90 staff. The task based approach undertaken by all participants shows that teachers have a deeper understanding of the pedagogy of play and Building the Ambition. Further collegiate meetings for learning communities attended by all P1 teachers and early stages teachers and a 2 day leaders course looking at the management of play based learning.
New benchmarks introduced for all test items in literacy and numeracy to ensure that children who are at risk of missing out, are identified early .
At the early stages, children have very good opportunities to learn within well planned play activities. Increased focus on learning through play and clear links to literacy and numeracy attainment.