This course will give practitioners ideas and resources to support the teaching of Topical Science from Early to Second Level.
Target Audience: Early to Second Level
Date: 23 November, 3:45pm – 4:45pm
Book through Business World
30 November 2023, 4.30-6.00pm
Places are free, booking is essential
Please share this session with your schools, it is for Head Teachers/SMT.
Parents and families can be a great support for a school and can help senior management in so many ways. This session works through the positive and effective ways a Parent Council can help engage with families and the wider community to help support learning. It addresses specifics around the role of the Parent Council and its interaction with school. There will also be time to discuss some of the potential challenges and how to manage relationships.
Developed in partnership with senior management teams and headteachers, this session consistently receives very positive feedback from both delegates and local authorities.
The session is interactive and informal with opportunities for discussion and questions. It’s a great chance to learn more about how you can work effectively with the Parent Council and to hear about good practice in other schools.
Healing Classrooms Basics Training
This online training consists of three 90-minute sessions that provide school staff with the basics of the Healing Classrooms Approach. Sessions feature case studies, discussions and good practice-sharing activities on how to best support refugee students in schools across the UK.
In this training, you will:
Sessions start at 4 pm and run during term time. Please find below the next available training dates.
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Applications for our next training term, January – March 2024 on our website are now open!! They close on Monday 6 November, 12noon. As well as our usual Bookbug Session Leader (in person and online) and Bookbug for the Home online, there are now open dates for our new Bookbug for the Home blended training.
We are returning to our previous method of a two week application window. Delegates have two weeks to complete their application, and complete one application which will cover all the dates they want to apply for.
Late applications will not be accepted. Successful applicants will receive an offer to sign up via Eventbrite and have two weeks to accept.
All applicants will hear about the outcome of their application by Friday 8 December 2023.
Note: If you are referring a staff member to training as a high priority, please ask them to write that clearly on their form in the ‘Indication of Need’ section. e.g. start with “Referred for training by NAME (Steering Group member) as a high priority”, and then continue to write their indication of need as normal. We have hundreds of applications to get through, so this will help us make sure we’re not missing anyone you’ve noted as a priority 🙂
Online Refresher Training is also taking place:
Ready, Steady, Sing in-person refreshers taking place in Jan-Mar will be published at a later date.
There are still some spaces left for Ready, Steady, Sing in-person refreshers taking place this term – sign up on the website
Application format
The Applications for BBSL and BBFH now use Microsoft Forms. Applicants will get a confirmation email, but are also given the option to download their responses after submitting.
Please forward this onto your colleagues and if you have any questions, please email the Bookbug Training team on bookbugtraining@scottishbooktrust.com
This two part professional learning opportunity will explore the HWB curriculum as the Responsibility of All and will highlight the necessary culture and ethos required to embed this approach. It will provide practical suggestions for implementing it within your own context. Staff from across all sectors are welcome to come along and find out more.
Please register for both events:
Session 1 :31.10.23
Session 2: 14.11.23
We’d like to draw your attention to an upcoming event hosted by GTC Scotland focusing on the Standard for Middle Leadership. Please share this with colleagues who may be interested in attending.
On 20 November 2023, GTC Scotland will host its first annual event focused on engaging with the Professional Standard for Middle Leadership.
The event is open to all registrants who are existing and aspiring middle leaders, and aims to stimulate professional thinking, discussion, and national networking.
We will be joined by guest speaker Kevin Brack, Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Programme Director: MEd Leadership and Learning at University of Edinburgh, who discuss themes such as middle leadership identity, the growing importance of middle leaders in a time of educational reform and the unique professional learning needs of middle leaders.
Kevin Brack is a former primary school Headteacher and in 2018 was appointed Attainment Advisor for Dundee with Education Scotland.
He has previously been involved in research into Financial Education in the USA and has presented his work on school improvement at conferences across the UK, in Denmark and Boston, MA. In 2016 Kevin was appointed to the First Minister’s Reading Challenge Advisory Group and he was shortlisted for the Outstanding Leadership Award at the Quality Improvement Awards in 2017. Kevin’s current teaching and research focuses on school leadership, headship and the professional learning of teachers and leaders.
Participants will be split into breakout rooms to stimulate professional thinking, discussion, and networking, based on what Kevin has discussed.
If you have any questions on the event, can you direct them towards Asif Chishti – Asif.Chishti@gtcs.org.uk
EiH: Leadership of and for Learning 2023 – 2024
We are excited to share a new approach to Excellence in Headship, the national headteacher leadership professional learning programme. The revised model EiH Leadership of and for Learning has been informed directly by the needs of school leaders through our headteacher Listening Exercise.
Why the new approach?
From our headteacher listening exercise, we know headteachers value time and space to engage in leadership professional learning. For the majority, in-person is preferred but, for accessibility, some still welcome an online option. As such, we are evolving Excellence in Headship to recognise this demand and streamline to 3 ‘core’ learning opportunities for headteachers in 2023/24.
What has changed?
The aim is for as many headteachers as possible to engage in these three core learn sessions to provide supportive leadership professional learning for all of Scotland’s headteachers. Based on your feedback we will initially offer in-person sessions in Glasgow, with the intention to deliver the programme in a range of locations across Scotland.
Leaders understand that people are the drivers and enactors of change for improvement. Professional learning and development is the means by which this is put into action. As a priority, leaders commit to and invest in their own professional learning and development, creating the conditions where professional learning can thrive – space, time, culture and trust. In this session we will explore this concept and consider how this thinking interacts with the current policy landscape influencing Scottish education
This session enables you to develop your understanding of systems leadership in terms of managing complex change. You will explore some of the relevant literature and models surrounding the leadership and management of complex change. This is a valuable opportunity to think, share your experience and learn together with systems leaders from across Scotland.
This session will provide an opportunity to explore how leaders build relational trust and networks across the system to ensure impact and the best outcomes for children and young people. You will take time with participants to take a deeper dive into the current policy landscape and introduce practical tools and approaches that can help you in your role to sense-make policy and develop an agile leadership approach to problem solving.
You can find all the programme information on our website Excellence in Headship (education.gov.scot)
