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 21^st 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.

Scots as an L3 in school

If you are learning to teach Scots on this module 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, including videos, and 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 PDF 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.