Our political leaders have been very busy over the past few days trying to come up with some enterprising and creative solutions to manage a hung parliament and provide Britain with a working coalition government. I am sure they burned the midnight oil in their efforts to achieve the working solutions we have now. But they are not alone in their enterprising skills, abilities and long hours, there are many Scottish teachers out there in the local authorities who are encouraging our pupils to think creatively and enterprisingly about the world they live in and how to become actively involved in it.
The ideas are wide and diverse ranging from working with local businesses to etwinning with various other parts of the world to share common issues. They include pupils working with local authors and theatres to hold productions in their schools and local communities while also raising awareness and money for local and international charities. One of the more unusual projects, I say this because I am a city person and cannot imagine not having a door number, was the pupils in Portree who working with the local emergency services and local businesses designed door numbers for the homes of the islanders and then designed a phone directory for the islanders so that everyone could be identified and found if necessary.
There are many more examples from all over Scotland and on the 26th May GTC Scotland will recognise some of these teacher's achievements at an event in the Scottish Parliament where up to thirty teachers will be awarded Professional Recognition in Enterprise Education, how appropriate that it is the Parliament, perhaps we should be asking the teachers and the pupils to pass on their creative and enterprising thoughts and ideas to our political leaders about how to lead a coalition government and all the issues therein? Is that not encouraging citizenship?
I'd be interested in hearing about any other enterprising projects going on in schools across the country and your thoughts on this topic.
If you're interested in finding out more about Professional Recognition then you can visit our website, http://www.gtcs.org.uk/Professionalrecognition/ or better still, why not get in touch with me directly through this blog?
I'm on holiday for a few days but will return next week.
Rosa