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Good practice in assessment - Scots Language, SCQF Level 5 – Lourdes Secondary School

Benefits of delivering this award

Above all, this award was enjoyable to deliver and allowed for the development of a range of stimulating resources. It fostered genuine, engaging classroom discussion as candidates came to value, increasingly, their Scots language and culture. The literacy skills developed in this unit are transferable to broader English/literacy qualifications which candidates may be pursuing, hence this award consolidates the delivery of other subjects.

Specific benefits for teaching staff

Please see Benefits of delivering this award. Also, this award allows for great flexibility and creativity in the use and development of resources which staff may find stimulating (we did!).

Specific benefits for candidates

This is an SQA literacy qualification which will boost any CV. Furthermore, I believe that candidates genuinely enjoyed the award: they learned to view and value their language and culture in a new and empowering way. Please see, however, one example of a candidate’s response to an end-of-course.