This is an intermediate timetabling course for those who have completed the effective timetabling course or have some knowledge of timetabling. The next course will be on Wednesday 26 February 2025. The skills of the school timetabler plays a key role in the process of building a curriculum where all young people experience the Curriculum for Excellence principles. Curriculum models can be quite innovative and, at times, quite challenging for the team putting together the timetable. Programme summary This one-day, intermediate-level course is for those who have: already completed the Introduction to Effective Timetabling course, or some experience of timetabling some basic knowledge of timetable construction The course will provide some thoughts, ideas and techniques that could support a school wishing to develop their curriculum model to better meet the needs of learners. Learn more about the Introduction to Effective Timetabling course Course aims During the course, participants will: look at the parameters within which a curriculum is designed and constructed: eg, teacher contracts, structure of the school day, SQA subjects offered, length of teaching units etc. meet with colleagues to share different school curricular arrangements across all age groups of learners and share timetabling experiences delivering different designs look at some examples of different approaches to timetabling the senior phase in Curriculum for Excellence. eg, single cohorts of pupils from S4 to S6 learn how to use computer software to allow pupils to make free subject choices at key transition points in their education consider ways of delivering pupil entitlement subjects across all the year groups All parts of the programme will include practical exercises to reinforce some of the techniques and ideas examined during the day. Course schedule (provisional) 08.45-09.00 Registration and coffee 09.00-09.30 Welcome and introductions 0930-1030 Curriculum design and the school week 1030-1100 Break 1100-1300 Using software to facilitate pupil free choice in the curriculum 1300-1400 Lunch 1400-1500 Senior phase – an approach to a single cohort 1500-1600 Consortia arrangements in the senior phase 1600-1630 Plenary session Bookings Book your place for the course on Wednesday 26 February 2025 (In person - Holyrood Campus, Edinburgh) Book a place on the Intermediate Timetabling Course for February 2025 Cost The course costs £149. Note: if you would like us to invoice your school, you will need to obtain a purchase order number through your school office before applying. Unfortunately we are unable to chase each school individually to obtain a purchase order number. Booking terms Course fees are non-refundable. The Professional Learning Office operates a cancellation policy to ensure that delegates are not disadvantaged by the last-minute cancellation of courses due to withdrawals making the course unviable. We will use your personal data to allow us to process your registration, communicate with you and obtain your feedback about this course. We are processing the information about you for these purposes because by registering for the course you give your consent for us to do so. We will not share information about you with any other third party. We will hold the personal data you provided us for 12 months after course completion. If you have agreed to be contacted about future events, we will hold your personal data for as long as you subscribe to these updates. Financial data such as a payment record will be held for 7 years. We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes. Read our full privacy notice In order to facilitate online bookings for our events, we use Epay - a third party service which is not operated by the University of Edinburgh. Details of Epay’s privacy policy Further information For further information: Email the Professional Learning Team This article was published on 2024-10-07
