Who are we?
All Senior Education Officers (SEOs) for Learning, Teaching and Assessment with specific curriculum responsibility have a wide and significant range of experience across the education system, including leadership experience in a range of settings. This includes colleagues who have experience as:
- School leaders in both primary and secondary contexts
- Scottish Qualifications Authority senior appointees
- Local Authority officers and seconded roles for local and national bodies
- Associate Assessors
- Writers and editors of academic & practitioner research and enquiry, including academic papers and textbook publications.
What do we do?
- Provide national support for all curriculum areas in the Broad General Education
- Support practitioners across all curriculum areas in the Senior Phase
- Provide advice and guidance around learning, teaching and assessment
- Provide support for the implementation of OECD recommendations
- Provide national leadership for curriculum areas including supporting Scottish Government policy development
- Provide support for innovation within curriculum areas
How do we do this?
- Provide on-demand bespoke support regarding professional learning, leadership and curriculum
development - Collaborate with and support practitioners, local authorities and regional improvement collaboratives
- Provide a range of career-long professional learning opportunities and activities to improve curriculum delivery
- Collaborate with a range of external partners to identify, develop and promote resources and strategies for high quality learning, teaching and assessment
- Lead and participate in a range of online and in-person national networks
- Identify and disseminate advice and guidance on curriculum matters, based on research and evidence.
