Category: LTA

Learning for Sustainability Scotland PL Events

I’m delighted to share details of several upcoming free-of-charge events and opportunities that may be of interest to you and your networks, and would be very grateful for your help in spreading the word to contacts you feel may be interested.

More details on all events and the links for signing up can be found here: Spring 2024: Upcoming opportunities and events from Learning for Sustainability Scotland (mailchi.mp)

  • ‘Connect’ – our monthly sessions for educators with the General Teaching Council of Scotland (29 February, 21 March, 25 April)
  • ‘Effective collaboration for Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Movement for Change’ – a pan-sectoral discussion opportunity (05 March)
  • ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’; our highly-successful online learning opportunity, which has, to date, attracted over 17,000 learners from nearly 160 countries. Developed in partnership with British Council and University of Edinburgh (starts 11 March)
  • ‘Responding to Scotland’s Good Food Nation consultation’ – in collaboration with Nourish Scotland (20 March)
  • ‘Monitoring Education for Sustainable Development in Colleges’ – in collaboration with EAUC Scotland (21 March)

Rewilding Education: how ecology can be a critical lens for system change

Rewilding education: how ecology can be a critical lens for system change

Tuesday 13th February 2024, 4.30-6pm

Microsoft Teams meeting

 Book here – http://bit.ly/3Nq3tq8

Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them. In post-pandemic education, we are increasingly aware of the social and professional relationships between teachers, other colleagues, pupils, leaders, parents, and authorities. Not only these but the relationships between people and the ‘natural’ and constructed learning environments of home, school, community spaces, and the outdoors. ‘Rewilding’ is a conservation term but is now entering the language of business, referring to efforts to restore an ecosystem to a state where it can more naturally evolve, and where different species can co-exist.  

In this online session, we will explore the concepts and metaphors of ecology and discuss how an understanding of complex ecosystems can help us to better manage and steer change in our own education work.  

We will hear from the host speakers as they discuss their own interactions with these ideas, coupled with different images and graphics as food for thought. Participants will have the opportunity to complete voluntary interactive tasks, engage in Q&A, and share their own ideas. 

This event may be of interest to educational leaders or those involved in Learning for Sustainability in your local authorities.

Multiply: Training Opportunity for Practitioners

I’d like to alert you to an exciting training offer delivered by Workers’ Education Association (WEA), aimed at practitioners entitled Supporting Learners’ Numeracy. I have attached details of the learning topics which will be covered in this 10-week programme.

The programme covers some fantastic and relevant topics which you may find of huge benefit to yourself and your practice, such as Maths Anxiety and Growth Mindset to name a few.

The Supporting Learners’ Numeracy workshops each last about 2 hours and are delivered with a tutor via Teams or Zoom, starting in February 2024. These will be delivered over a 10-week period. It is not a requirement to attend all sessions, but instead you can ‘drop in’ to the sessions you prefer. All course teaching and learning materials and resources will be shared via Canvas.

Please complete this form to register your interest in the training and to highlight the date which would be most suitable for you to attend. Training is free of charge, as all costs are covered by Multiply.

For more info please contact multiply@scotborders.gov.uk