Education Scotland Relationships & Behaviour Webinars
Please see details below for Education Scotland Relationships and Behaviour Webinars for Education professionals:
Webinars on New Guidance:
IWS
Relationships and Behaviour CLPL webinars:
Session 1: Values, Expectations & Consequences and Policies – 28 August 2025
Session 2: Relational Approaches (Whole school) – 4 September 2025
Session 3: The Brain, Self-Regulation and the 4 Rs – 11 September 2025
Session 4: Co-Regulation and Deescalation – 18 September 2025
Session 5: Active Listening, Re-framing, and Classroom Strategies – 25 September 2025
Education Scotland Professional Learning Offers 2025/26
Education Scotland continues to enhance its professional learning service to better support educators across the country. As we look ahead to the 2025/26 academic session, we’re excited to share a range of opportunities designed to support you and your colleagues to make informed decisions about your professional learning.
Click here for PowerPoint slide which outlines:
- Upcoming professional learning programmes opening for applications in 2025/26
- Open access resources available anytime to support flexible learning
- Activities for individuals and groups that offer recognition and a record of completion
- Guidance on how to find events via the Education Scotland website
These slides are a helpful starting point, but they don’t represent the full scope of our professional learning offer. For more details, we encourage you to click here to explore the Education Scotland website.
We’d be grateful if you could share this resource with your colleagues and teams to help them plan their learning journey for the year ahead. The application window for our Leadership Professional Learning programmes will be open from 18th August until 5th September, so please look out for further information on this in the coming days.
For our facilitated leadership professional learning, applications for the following programmes will go live at 9am on Monday 18 August and will close at 11.45pm on Friday 05 September. Application forms will be available under the ‘How do I apply?’ section of each page by 9am on Monday 18 August. It is important to note that demand for places on our facilitated programmes is high, and we may need to close application forms ahead of the published close date.
Building Racial Literacy – click here to find out more about this programme
Aspiring to Middle Leadership (facilitated cohort) – click here to find out more about this programme
Leading Professional Learning – click here to find out more about this programme
Leading the How of Change – click here to find out more about this programme
For our self-directed professional learning, we are again running online introductory sessions in order to support users to engage with the learning.
Aspiring to Middle Leadership – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for the introductory session
Middle Leaders Leading Change – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for the introductory session
Enquiry in Education – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for an introductory session
Coaching in Education – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for an introductory session
Lastly, don’t forget that you can also create a free account on our website which gives you access to our free Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) and Professional Learning Resources. And you can now download a certificate when you complete each PLA which can be kept as a log of your professional learning in 25/26. Click here to open the website and click the Register button to create a new account, or select Log in to access your existing account.
We look forward to supporting you with your professional learning this year.
Kind regards
Professional Learning and Leadership Team, Education Scotland
The Introductory GLPS Course
No previous knowledge of Gaelic is necessary. Training dates and the content of the courses are below for your information.
Commencing week beginning 27th October 2025, 4.30-6.30pm. There is a choice of a Monday or a Thursday session. This is a 6-week online twilight course which provides teachers with some simple Gaelic which they can introduce to their learners.
You must have the agreement of your head teacher before applying as the expectation is that you would deliver Gaelic lessons to your learners during the course. The course model is designed for the learning to be consolidated by using the key language in class.
If you are interested in taking part, please complete this FORM. Places are limited and will be offered on a first come basis.
| Monday 27th October
4.30-6.30 |
OR | Thursday 30th October
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 1: Introductions & Names |
| Monday 3rd November
4.30-6.30 |
OR | Thursday 6th November
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 2: Feelings & Days of the week |
| Monday 10th November 4.30-6.30 | OR | Thursday 13th November
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 3: Numbers |
| Monday 17th November 4.30-6.30 | OR | Thursday 20th November
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 4: Where you live |
| Monday 24th November 4.30-6.30 | OR | Thursday 27th November
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 5: Weather |
| Monday 1st December
4.30-6.30 |
OR | Thursday 4th December
4.30-6.30 |
Unit 6: Colours |
Sing for Wellbeing
** NEWS: Primary teacher CPD launch
We are ready to sign up our first cohort of teachers for 2025-26! Fill in the form below to sign up – CPD sessions will start on 19th September 2025.
If you have questions about the programme, please get in touch by emailing hello@lovemusic.org.uk. We are happy to call you if you provide us with a phone number.
Resources and support for anti-racist education practitioners in Scotland
This website provides tools, workshops and ideas to support Early Years practitioners and educators in Scotland to build an anti-racist curriculum which responds positively to the diverse needs of individual learning where all cultures, religions, identities, and languages are recognised and valued. There are materials for Early Level, which include 3 padlets on ways to develop spaces, experiences and interaction through an anti-racist lens, 1st level resources which take a story-line approach and 2nd / 3rd level materials which are designed as interactive workshops. In addition there is information about using the right language and how to deal with racial slurs.
The materials have been developed in partnership with a racially diverse group of children, young people and educators across different sectors of Scottish Education.
All the materials are free to access on our website https://www.antiracisted.scot/
Computing Science
Exciting Computing Science Professional Learning Opportunity
We have some truly exciting news to share that will empower you to bring Computing Science directly into your classroom! SSERC is offering a unique suite of professional learning opportunities designed specifically for local authority representatives and teachers like you.
What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out?
- Hands-on, Experiential Learning: A full day providing excellent, practical experience that you can immediately apply.
- Loan Robot Kits: Not only will you gain valuable knowledge and skills, but you’ll also receive a full class kit of robots on loan for up to 20 school weeks! This means you can instantly translate your professional learning into engaging, hands-on activities for your learners. Imagine the excitement and learning your learners will experience with these resources at their fingertips.
- Highly Affordable Rate: We’ve made these events accessible to ensure as many educators as possible can benefit.
Secure Your Spot!
Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to act fast. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Kevin Reid at kevin.reid@sserc.scot.
Coaching Introduction
Coaching – An Introduction
Come along to a short session to learn all about Coaching in Education. Booking via Business World.
Teacher leader networks: Opportunities to lead SBCway priorities
Teacher leader networks: Opportunities to lead SBCway priorities
Rationale: As part of our new ‘Leadership Academy’, we recognise the need to provide strategic leadership opportunities for our classroom teachers. Teacher leaders will also provide additional capacity within the ‘Team Around the Cluster’ model, offering schools within each cluster access to expert support and advice about key #SBCway improvement priorities. These teacher leader roles provide a unique opportunity for experienced practitioners to lead, with support, out-with their own classroom and school.
SBCway-linked roles
For the priority areas listed below, teacher leaders will:
✓ Be classed-based but the school’s lead practitioner for ongoing specific priority developments.
✓ Remain up-to-date with SBCway developments.
✓ Attend regular (max. half-termly) twilight webinars.
✓ Support with ongoing evaluation of improvement developments.
✓ Join and engage with relevant SchoolHouse channel.
✓ Promote key messages to wider staff team, liaising with HTs.
✓ Support school / cluster improvement activity as directed by HTs.
✓ Commit 10hrs of individual CPD time to the role
SBCway priorities
To ensure key priorities receive proportionate teacher leader attention, the following opportunities have been allocated according to school size.
Commitment: Teacher leaders, by definition, are classroom based. They will commit 10 hours of their individual CLPL time to this development opportunity. School leaders may choose to provide additional time if appropriate. Additional CLPL sessions may be offered over the school year.
Middle leaders: In most secondary schools and some primary schools, these teacher leader roles will already sit within the remit of existing PTs or other middle leader roles. As such, there is no requirement to appoint additional individuals into these roles unless there is an appropriate rationale to do so.
Recruitment process: The opportunity to be a Teacher leader should be offered to all teachers. Headteachers should discuss these opportunities with staff. If necessary, informal interviews can be conducted to select the most suitable candidates.
Vacant roles: If a school/group of schools is unable to appoint teacher leaders, Headteachers will be the designated point of contact for improvement activity. But Headteachers will not be required to fulfil the expectations of the teacher leader role
As part of our new leadership academy approach, please send the ‘sign up’ link to any staff you have nominated for these opportunities. All responses should be submitted by Friday 26th September.
Introduction to British Sign Language
An introduction to the BSL 1+2 pack and its contents. Staff will be given the opportunity to explore resources and plan how it can be used in their setting.
Aims – to become familiar with BSL 1+2 pack. To feel more confident in the delivery of BSL. Opportunity for professional dialogue and questions around BSL. To become more deaf aware in your practice.
Target Audience – all interested staff
Online, 16 September 2025, 3:45pm until 5pm
Bookings can be made through Business World
