There are now two ways you can gain access to our website:

1. Register using your work or personal email address and create a website profile.
2. Log in with Glow

To register using your work or personal email address and create a website profile:

1. Go to https://education.gov.scot/professional-learning/ and click on the purple register button on the right hand side:
   
   
   
   
2. This will bring up a short registration pop up form for you to complete which includes a few basic details about you and your role in the education sector:
   
   
   
   
3. Once you have registered and created your password for the website you will have access to the suite of self-directed Professional Learning activities (PLAs).

   Please note, you should receive this pop up message asking you to verify your email address:
   
   

1. Go to https://education.gov.scot/professional-learning/ and click on the purple log in button on the right hand side:
   
   
   
   
   
2. This will bring up the log in pop up page:
   
   
   
   
3. Log in using the same email address that you registered with each time. If you forget your password, please use the Forgotten password?

Once you have registered and are logged in you can access and update your details by going to Account Details under the My Account drop down menu:

Here you can check and update your email address, personal details or employment details by clicking on Update details (example below):

Please note if you accessed our website using your Glow details and these have changed, contact us on edspll@educationscotland.gov.scot for further support if required.

Once you have registered and are logged in you can access our suite of self-directed Professional Learning Activities (PLAs).

You can browse through them all,  search activities by word or phrase or filter by leadership level or theme.

As previously noted a number of our leadership programmes and our open access professional learning offers make use of PLAs too. They will name specific PLAs and/or link directly to them.

Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) are all designed in a similar way but ultimately are the content,  length and structure suits the learning material of each PLA.

They will all have:

• Clear learning outcomes
• Links to the relevant Professional Standards
  • (all link to GTCS - Professional standards, with the majority also linking to SSSC -National Occupational Standards and CLD Standards Council - The competences)
• A series of sequential learning steps with:
  • an overview and content to read
  • links to relevant resources to read, watch or listen to
  • one or two reflective questions.
• A final impact step to consider the impact of this activity upon your professional practice.

Depending on the learning material, some PLAs may be quite short but others may take longer. Fortunately you can save your progress as you go (there is a Save button after each reflective question in a learning step) and come back to them at a later date!

Once you have registered and are logged in you can access “in progress” or completed Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) by going to ‘My Professional Learning Activities’ under the ‘My Account’ drop down menu:

Any Professional Learning Activity (PLA) you start will automatically show here (see example below).

What information can you get on this page?

• You can apply filters to show only those completed or those in progress.
• You can see your progress with the progress bar and number of steps completed.
• You can download a summary of your responses to the reflective questions.
• You can even share an interesting PLAs with colleagues through social media or email! They will, of course, need to register and log in to access this.

It is not uncommon for website users to set up more than one profile over time. It may be that you have changed your work email and decide to register again or you may have simply forgotten that you have registered!

Unfortunately the website does not automatically link profiles together so some people can end up with work saved under multiple profiles.

If you think this has happened to you, please contact our team on: edspll@educationscotland.gov.scot giving as much information as you can in terms of email addresses you have registered with.

We can then work with you to remove duplicate profiles.

Please note though, that work saved under one profile is not always able be transferred to another. Profiles can only be combined if, for example, you created a new profile but hadn't saved any work to it yet.

The following open access offers and programmes showcase new approaches to the professional learning offered from Education Scotland’s Professional Learning and Leadership team from August 2024.

Coaching and Enquiry are core aspects of our national model of professional learning and as such we wanted to ensure that participants can begin engaging with the offer at any time, can dip in to specific areas of the learning resources or work through the whole open access resource sequentially and can complete their learning flexibly to suit their needs.

Please go to our Coaching in Education and Enquiry in Education pages to find out more about these open access learning resources.

• Coaching in Education
• Enquiry in Education

The new approach to our middle leadership programmes allows participants to begin engaging with the learning on offer at any time and can complete the programme flexibly to suit their needs.

Please go to our Aspiring to Middle Leadership and Middle Leaders Leading Change pages to find out more about these programmes:

• Aspiring to Middle Leadership
• Middle Leaders Leading Change