Scots Language Teacher CPD – Course Guide
2. Course Content
This course comprises seven units as follows:
Unit 1: Scots within the school context
Unit 2: Scots – exploring the educational benefits
Unit 3: Scots in the broad general education (early and first level)
Unit 4: Scots and social studies at secondary school
Unit 5: Scots in literature and creative writing
Unit 6: Scots, creativity and the expressive arts
Unit 7: Scots as a language learning option in school.
Each unit includes engagement with research, formative reflective tasks, application of knowledge and skills activities and exchanges with other students on the forum and in live tutorials.
The
purpose of the course is to explore the role Scots language and
culture in Scottish schools across the curriculum and how it can lead
the way for multilingual pedagogies and practices for the 21st
century classroom. Alongside this, you will familiarise yourself with
the Scots language and find out about its history and related
societal and cultural aspects. You will apply your new language and
pedagogy skills in your own classroom as part of studying this
course.
If you are learning to teach Scots on this course in order to provide an L3 (Language 3, or additional second language) experience in your school, explore Education Scotland’s L3 audit tools.
2.1 Unit materials
You will work with a range of materials in different media, such as text, audios and videos, as well as different types of input including research articles and policy documents.
The materials you will engage with in this course may:
be located on external websites, with links provided
be available as in-course documents
take the form of articles in academic journals or reviews or the like, all of which you will access online via the course website.