Professional Learning for ELC

Published 04/04/2025.  Last updated 04/04/2025

Professional Learning Activities

Our website hosts a growing collection of Professional Learning Activities (PLAs). These are stand-alone modules on a variety of themes that can be worked through at your own pace. PLAs are interactive learning materials that allow you to write responses and reflections to prompts, to save your progress and to keep a record of your learning.

You can even download a summary of your learning which can be used in to support your Professional Review and Development (PRD) discussions with your line manager.

This information can only be accessed by you and therefore you need to register for an account and log in to access the Professional Learning Activities (PLAs).

Before accessing the PLAs, you may wish to check out our guide to creating an account on our website.

Early learning and childcare practitioners: training modules

Two of the Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) hosted on Education Scotland's website are part of the suite of free online modules available to all early learning and childcare (ELC) practitioners providers and open to all ELC workers.

National ELC Module 4 - Developing and understanding of curriculum rationale

National ELC Module 5 – Tracking and Monitoring

This Scottish Government factsheet explains more about these training modules.

By logging in to the ELC professional learning directory on the SSSC Learning website you can access a wider range of professional learning resources from other providers

Professional Learning Programmes

Education Scotland's Professional Learning and Leadership team deliver a range of leadership programmes for leaders and practitioners. 

The following programmes may be of specific interest for ELC:

Please provide us with your contact information if you would like to be kept informed about future Leadership Professional Learning programmes.

Professional Learning Events

Professional learning events include webinars and in person sessions. These can be searched by key words or phrases to look for specific themes or filtered by date or type of event (online or in-person).

Open Access Learning

UNCRC professional learning for ELC This resource supports knowledge and awareness of United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) for community learning and development practitioners. 

The Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities Professional Learning Framework is a suite of learning resources focussed on four interconnected and interdependent themes:

  • Inclusion
  • Rights and equalities
  • Relationships
  • Wellbeing and care

It has been designed to be used a number of ways depending on your context - this could be as facilitated sessions in your setting, as collaborative professional learning or self-directed professional learning. 

Our website also has two new open access learning resources - one focussed on coaching in education and the other practitioner enquiry in education .

These are designed as self-directed professional learning resources to build your own knowledge and skills.  There are opportunities in both Coaching in Education and Enquiry in Education to join online sessions with educators from around Scotland to learn together. 

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Professional Learning for ELC

Published 04/04/2025.  Last updated 04/04/2025

Professional Learning Activities

Our website hosts a growing collection of Professional Learning Activities (PLAs). These are stand-alone modules on a variety of themes that can be worked through at your own pace. PLAs are interactive learning materials that allow you to write responses and reflections to prompts, to save your progress and to keep a record of your learning.

You can even download a summary of your learning which can be used in to support your Professional Review and Development (PRD) discussions with your line manager.

This information can only be accessed by you and therefore you need to register for an account and log in to access the Professional Learning Activities (PLAs).

Before accessing the PLAs, you may wish to check out our guide to creating an account on our website.

Early learning and childcare practitioners: training modules

Two of the Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) hosted on Education Scotland's website are part of the suite of free online modules available to all early learning and childcare (ELC) practitioners providers and open to all ELC workers.

National ELC Module 4 - Developing and understanding of curriculum rationale

National ELC Module 5 – Tracking and Monitoring

This Scottish Government factsheet explains more about these training modules.

By logging in to the ELC professional learning directory on the SSSC Learning website you can access a wider range of professional learning resources from other providers

Professional Learning Programmes

Education Scotland's Professional Learning and Leadership team deliver a range of leadership programmes for leaders and practitioners. 

The following programmes may be of specific interest for ELC:

Please provide us with your contact information if you would like to be kept informed about future Leadership Professional Learning programmes.

Professional Learning Events

Professional learning events include webinars and in person sessions. These can be searched by key words or phrases to look for specific themes or filtered by date or type of event (online or in-person).

Open Access Learning

UNCRC professional learning for ELC This resource supports knowledge and awareness of United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) for community learning and development practitioners. 

The Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities Professional Learning Framework is a suite of learning resources focussed on four interconnected and interdependent themes:

  • Inclusion
  • Rights and equalities
  • Relationships
  • Wellbeing and care

It has been designed to be used a number of ways depending on your context - this could be as facilitated sessions in your setting, as collaborative professional learning or self-directed professional learning. 

Our website also has two new open access learning resources - one focussed on coaching in education and the other practitioner enquiry in education .

These are designed as self-directed professional learning resources to build your own knowledge and skills.  There are opportunities in both Coaching in Education and Enquiry in Education to join online sessions with educators from around Scotland to learn together. 

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