Eve's timely reminder for educators everywhere

One of the joys of teaching is the capacity to learn from the learners. 

The Scottish Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society increasingly seeks to have school students presenting at its events. Four pupils from Dean Park Primary School opened this year’s annual SELMAS forum, where the theme was Transforming Teaching, Transforming Schools: Ambition or reality?

Their task was to describe, to an audience of teachers, education officials and parents, “teaching which opens up learning for us”. Four bright, lively, young people, the youngest only six, provided their insights.

The last, Eve Roberts, a P6 pupil, had worked out that learning could be divided into four categories: teacher-led learning; physical learning; active learning (“or, as I prefer to call it, do it yourself learning”); and repetitive learning (“such as spelling and times tables”).