1. Lead Officer: Special/ASN Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012
Education Scotland
Ken McAra HMI
Lead Officer: Special/ASN
Dyslexia Scotland - 29 September 2012 1 1

2. 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

3. Corporate Management Group

4. our strategic objectives are to:
lead and support the successful implementation of the curriculum
build the capacity of education providers and practitioners to improve their own performance
promote high quality professional learning and leadership
stimulate creativity and innovation
provide independent feedback on the quality of educational provision
provide evidence-based advice to inform national policy
develop our people and improve our organisational capability

5. purposes of inspection?
provide assurance to users on the quality of
education
promote improvement
provide evidence to inform national policy development

6. 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

7. 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?
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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9. Entitlements Children and Young People Support SLLW E1 E1 Senior Phase
Coherent Curriculum
Broad General Education
Senior Phase
SLLW
Support
Positive & sustained destinations E2 E6 E6 E2 E3 E3 E5 E5
Appendix 2 of the Advice note details the 6 entitlements.
All national partners including Es together with the 32 EAs contributed to the CfE MB progress report of Dec 2011 with all providing evidence of progress in delivering the entitlements. Work is underway for the next annual report to MB due by the end of Oct.
While much emphasis is given to the BGE entitlement, it is important that through inspection we explore how well all partners are developing approaches to delivering all 6 entitlements and how these are leading to improved outcomes for all learners. E4 9

10. CfE Implementation Priorities 2012-13
assessment
broad general education
senior phase

11. reflection and feedback?