Professional learning for early career teachers
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 subjects or filtered by date or type of event (online or in-person).
There are nearly 100 webinars already promoted for 2024-25; ranging from subject specific sessions to professional learning networks.
Our Spotlight on Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities (below) highlights some of the teams upcoming webinars and new resources!
As the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into Scot's Law in July 2024 we have two opportunities coming up in September which provide understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the impact of changes to legislation and what this means in practice.
Professional Learning Programmes
Education Scotland's Professional Learning and Leadership team deliver a range of leadership programmes for class teachers, middle leaders and school and system leaders.
Please provide us with your contact information if you would like to be kept informed about future Leadership Professional Learning programmes.
Education Scotland's Numeracy and Mathematics Team have created two self-directed learning experiences intended to support practitioners who are in the first few years of their teaching career and would like to deepen their understanding and confidence in relation to learning and teaching in numeracy and mathematics.
ECT Experience - Primary Numeracy and Mathematics
ECT Experience - Secondary Numeracy and Mathematics (coming soon)
Open Access Learning
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 school or 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.
Professional Learning Activities
Our website also 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.
There are several upcoming events from the IWE team:
Keeping Trauma in Mind
The ‘Keeping Trauma in Mind’ programme of 4 twilight sessions will provide educators from all sectors with an opportunity to understand the impact of trauma and develop trauma responsive strategies to support children and young people affected by psychological trauma.
Delegates will gain most benefit from attending all four sessions and will have access to presentations and opportunities to network with educators from across Scotland.
The sessions will be led by Education Scotland, see below dates of each session.
Session 1 - 10th September - What Is Trauma?
Session 2 - 17th September - Recognising and Responding to Trauma
Session 3 - 24th September - Self-regulation
Session 4 - 11th October - Staff Wellbeing
All sessions will start at 4pm and last for around 90 minutes.
You can reserve your space using the link below
Keeping Trauma In Mind | Events | Education Scotland
One Good Adult
As part of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board the Scottish Government, NHS Education Scotland and Education Scotland are delighted to invite you to the launch of the ‘One Good Adult Job Description’. This will take place online on Wednesday 11 September 16:00 – 17:00.
The ‘One Good Adult Job Description’ was written by children and young people and sets out what children and young people need from the adults around them to support their mental health and wellbeing. You will hear from Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport and Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills about wider work to support children’s mental health and wellbeing and how this resource fits within the wider mental health landscape, how the pilot in North Ayrshire Council and Aberdeen City Council has been used in schools and the wider community, and training available to all those working in the sector.
You can reserve a space using the link below:
One Good Adult : information session Tickets, Wed 11 Sep 2024 at 16:00 | Eventbrite
Keeping Your Cool in School : information session
This session will provide an overview of the ‘Keeping Your Cool in School’ primary resource designed to support children in developing and maintaining positive relationships; becoming more confident in tackling challenging situations and enabling them to have a better understanding of their responsibilities in school and beyond. This will take place online on Wednesday 2nd October 4pm – 5pm
It provides them with the skills to manage emotions and raises awareness of wider issues affecting them and their peers. Each level of the programme explores a range of responses to different situations, focusing on aggressive, avoidant and assertive (cool) responses.
The resource provides a range of age specific resources through primary school by encouraging and developing the attitudes and life-skills for children to grow as individuals and to thrive within the school community and beyond. Keeping Your Cool In School was first launched in 2007 and titled 'Cool In School' but has now been digitally updated for 2024.
Keeping Your Cool in School: information session | Events | Education Scotland