Welcome to our school's online Professional Development Learning Resource (scroll down for a list of recently added links and resources)
This Wikispace has been set up to help us collate, store and share links to online educational resources and documents which might be of professional interest.
The 'All Pages' section on the left hand side will let you see what's available under various headings. If you wish to add any links or documents you think may be of interest to colleagues, please contact Susan Brownlie (English Department) who will be happy to upload these for everyone to access.
*Please note, as Wikispaces.com is closing, we are currently in the process of moving the content from our PDLR to Glow. This will be done, and the PDLR relaunched, prior to Wiksipaces.com closing in July 2018.*
NEW
13/06/2018
The In-house PLA page has been updated following the WOSDEC PLA on 13/06/2018 with a copy of the presentation used.
A new page has been added called 'Learning for Sustainability'.
Further links have been added to the Pupil Voice page.
23/04/2018
A link to presentation materials from the NHS Health Scotland conference with Education Scotland and the Scottish Government on the 21st of March, 2018, is available via the Additional Support Needs page. The conference title was 'Relationships and Resilience: Addressing childhood adversity to support children's learning and wellbeing.' 01/2/17
New page created - Inhouse Student Teacher & NQT Professional Learning Activities (useful checklist of what's happening in school for Student Teachers and NQTs and when) 4/12/17
Education Scotland has published the framework HM Inspectors will use to evaluate how well local authorities are improving learning, raising attainment and closing the poverty related attainment gap. It's available from the Attainment Gap page.
14/11/17
Some new links have been added to the top of the Additional Support Needs page (Dyslexia resources and Principles of Good Transition 3).
02/10/2017 Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators for 2017 is available to download via the Educational Data page.
26/07/2017
A new page has been created entitled 'Excellence and Equity'. A link to the report of the initial findings of the International Council of Education Advisers, published on the 26th of July, 2017, has been added to it.
01/06/2017
A new page has been created entitled 'Nurture'. The new framework ‘Applying Nurture as a Whole School Approach’ has been added to it. This resource, developed by Education Scotland,
supports practitioners as they self-evaluate their nurturing approaches and interventions.
24/05/2017
A link to a presentation given this month in Glasgow by Professor Neil Humphrey on children's mental health and wellbeing has been added to the Health and Wellbeing page.
A link to the Review of the impact of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement Act 2006) conducted by the National Parent Forum of Scotland is available from the Parents page. 09/05/2017
A link has been added to the Additional Support Needs page, to leaflets and posters produced by CALL Scotland, including their useful 'Addressing Reading Difficulties: A practical guide' flowchart. 09/05/2017
A link to the results of the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy 2016 (for Literacy) is available from both the Educational Data and the Literacy across Learning pages. 20/04/2017
The External Events page has been updated with links to forthcoming courses/conferences etc. 08/04/2017
The Useful Website Links page has been updated with a link to the recently published article by the GTCS on the forthcoming Professional Learning Framework.
30/03/2017
The Attainment Challenge page has been updated with a link to the Interventions for Equity diagram and a link to the Interventions for Equity framework page on the National Improvement Hub 27/03/2017
Education Scotland has published its latest report on quality and improvement in Scotland education from 2012-2016. A link to the report is available via the Educational Data page. 18/03/2017
The Attainment Challenge page has been updated with a link to the Scottish version of the Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit (the Scottish Attainment Challenge Learning and Teaching Toolkit) 03/03/2017
A link to the Careers Conversations in a Nutshell resource, from the National Parent Forum of Scotland is available from the Developing the Young Workforce page. 21/02/2017 NEW LIBRARY RESOURCES
Autism Network Scotland - Principles of Good Transitions 3 - series of 9 booklets
CELCIS (Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland) - Looked After and Learning: Improving the learning journey of looked after children (1 booklet) 06/02/2017
A link to the State of child health report published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (January 2017) is available from the Attainment Gap page 23/01/2017
A link to the 2016 CIDREE Yearbook is available the Attainment Gap page. The 2016 theme was Successful Approaches to Raising Attainment and Tackling Inequity
(from the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe) 21/01/2017
Update made to the External Events page, listing educational events taking place in early 2017. 17/01/2017
A link has been added to the Additional Support Needs page to resources made available by PINS (Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland)
2016
06/12/2016 Links to the PISA 2015 publications, including the NFER Education Briefing - Key insights from PISA 2015 (Scotland) are available via the Educational Data page. 01/12/2016 Delivering Excellence and Equity in Scottish Education: the National Improvement Framework - leaflet for teachers available on the National Improvement Framework page 28/11/2016 NHS Health Scotland's new e-Learning module on Child Poverty, Health and Wellbeing - a link for this module is available on the Attainment Gap page. 12/10/2016 - a link to the Autism Toolbox, from the Scottish Government and Scottish Autism, is available via the Additional Support Needs page. 05/10/2016 Additional reading materials added to the Professional Reading Group page:
- Ten Challenges to becoming a truly creative school in Scotland by Sir Tim Brighouse and David Cameron - Less is More: Marking with a Purpose (presentation by Victoria Hewett aka Mrs Humanities) - Marking is an Act of Love (blog post by David Didau aka The Learning Spy) 04/10/2016
- a link to the keynote presentations delivered at this year's Scottish Learning Festival is available on the External Events page. 14/09/2016
- Charlaine Simpson's presentation on Practitioner Enquiry, delivered as our first PLA of the year on behalf of the GTCS, is available from the Inhouse Professional Learning Activities page. 08/09/2016 - Links to the resources mentioned by David Cameron in his conversation with staff on 07/09/2016 are available from the Professional Reading Group page along with a copy of his presentation. 29/08/2016
- New guidance from John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, on CfE and Benchmarks for Literacy and English and Numeracy and Mathematics is available from the Curriculum for Excellence page
A link to the Scottish Government's delivery plan setting out how it will deliver excellence and equity in education for every child in Scotland is available via the Attainment Gap page 04/08/2106
- New page - Curriculum for Excellence - has a link to the newly-published CfE Implementation Plan 2016/17 21/07/2016
- a presentation by Dylan Wiliam on Key Drivers for Educational Transformation is available on the Attainment Gap page 03/07/2016
- A link to the Scottish Government's delivery plan setting out how it will deliver excellence and equity in education for every child in Scotland is available via the Attainment Gap page
- Resources, videos and presentations from the Scottish Attainment Challenge National learning Event (9 June 2016) are available via a link on the Attainment Challenge page 14/06/2016
- New page - Classroom Practice, first article posted 'How to make a good teacher' from The Economist 01/06/2016
- A link to the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy 2015 (Numeracy) results is available from the Numeracy across Learning page 18/05/2016
- Updates to the Useful Website Links page - links to educational author and international speaker Sir John Jones' website and to the Sutton Trust's 2014 report - 'What Makes Great Teaching?' and the Teacher Development Trust's 2015 report 'Developing Great Teaching' both of which involved Professor Rob Coe, researcher in educational assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice. 16/05/2016
- A link to the 'Developing Teacher Leadership Report', published in April by the Scottish College for Educational Leadership, is available on the Educational Leadership page. 14/05/2016
- Two articles added to the Health and Wellbeing page, under the heading 'Children's Mental and Emotional Health' 06/05/2016
- Two articles added to the Educational Leadership page: 'The Professional Teacher: Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents' and 'What is a "Professional Learning Community"?' - A New page headed 'Pupil Voice' has been created. Check out the articles on it. 29/04/2016
- New page - Interdisciplinary Learning 21/04/2016 - Making Thinking Visible - new page 08/04/2016
- A summary of a report published by the National Children's Bureau called 'Poverty and children's personal and social relationships' is now on the Attainment Gap page and there's also a link to the full report. 01/04/2016
- A New page headed 'Parents' has links to some useful information aimed at parents, eg National Improvement Framework in a Nutshell.
(scroll down for a list of recently added links and resources)
This Wikispace has been set up to help us collate, store and share links to online educational resources and documents which might be of professional interest.
The 'All Pages' section on the left hand side will let you see what's available under various headings. If you wish to add any links or documents you think may be of interest to colleagues, please contact Susan Brownlie (English Department) who will be happy to upload these for everyone to access.
*Please note, as Wikispaces.com is closing, we are currently in the process of moving the content from our PDLR to Glow. This will be done, and the PDLR relaunched, prior to Wiksipaces.com closing in July 2018.*
NEW
13/06/2018
The In-house PLA page has been updated following the WOSDEC PLA on 13/06/2018 with a copy of the presentation used.
A new page has been added called 'Learning for Sustainability'.
Further links have been added to the Pupil Voice page.
23/04/2018
A link to presentation materials from the NHS Health Scotland conference with Education Scotland and the Scottish Government on the 21st of March, 2018, is available via the Additional Support Needs page. The conference title was
'Relationships and Resilience: Addressing childhood adversity to support children's learning and wellbeing.'
01/2/17
New page created - Inhouse Student Teacher & NQT Professional Learning Activities (useful checklist of what's happening in school for Student Teachers and NQTs and when)
4/12/17
Education Scotland has published the framework HM Inspectors will use to evaluate how well local authorities are improving learning, raising attainment and closing the poverty related attainment gap. It's available from the Attainment Gap page.
14/11/17
Some new links have been added to the top of the Additional Support Needs page (Dyslexia resources and Principles of Good Transition 3).
02/10/2017
Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators for 2017 is available to download via the Educational Data page.
26/07/2017
A new page has been created entitled 'Excellence and Equity'. A link to the report of the initial findings of the International Council of Education Advisers, published on the 26th of July, 2017, has been added to it.
01/06/2017
A new page has been created entitled 'Nurture'. The new framework ‘Applying Nurture as a Whole School Approach’ has been added to it. This resource, developed by Education Scotland,
supports practitioners as they self-evaluate their nurturing approaches and interventions.
24/05/2017
A link to a presentation given this month in Glasgow by Professor Neil Humphrey on children's mental health and wellbeing has been added to the Health and Wellbeing page.
A link to the Review of the impact of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement Act 2006) conducted by the National Parent Forum of Scotland is available from the Parents page.
09/05/2017
A link has been added to the Additional Support Needs page, to leaflets and posters produced by CALL Scotland, including their useful 'Addressing Reading Difficulties: A practical guide' flowchart.
09/05/2017
A link to the results of the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy 2016 (for Literacy) is available from both the Educational Data and the Literacy across Learning pages.
20/04/2017
The External Events page has been updated with links to forthcoming courses/conferences etc.
08/04/2017
The Useful Website Links page has been updated with a link to the recently published article by the GTCS on the forthcoming Professional Learning Framework.
30/03/2017
The Attainment Challenge page has been updated with a link to the Interventions for Equity diagram and a link to the Interventions for Equity framework page on the National Improvement Hub
27/03/2017
Education Scotland has published its latest report on quality and improvement in Scotland education from 2012-2016. A link to the report is available via the Educational Data page.
18/03/2017
The Attainment Challenge page has been updated with a link to the Scottish version of the Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit (the Scottish Attainment Challenge Learning and Teaching Toolkit)
03/03/2017
A link to the Careers Conversations in a Nutshell resource, from the National Parent Forum of Scotland is available from the Developing the Young Workforce page.
21/02/2017
NEW LIBRARY RESOURCES
Autism Network Scotland - Principles of Good Transitions 3 - series of 9 booklets
CELCIS (Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland) - Looked After and Learning: Improving the learning journey of looked after children (1 booklet)
06/02/2017
A link to the State of child health report published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (January 2017) is available from the Attainment Gap page
23/01/2017
A link to the 2016 CIDREE Yearbook is available the Attainment Gap page. The 2016 theme was Successful Approaches to Raising Attainment and Tackling Inequity
(from the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe)
21/01/2017
Update made to the External Events page, listing educational events taking place in early 2017.
17/01/2017
A link has been added to the Additional Support Needs page to resources made available by PINS (Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland)
2016
06/12/2016Links to the PISA 2015 publications, including the NFER Education Briefing - Key insights from PISA 2015 (Scotland) are available via the Educational Data page.
01/12/2016
Delivering Excellence and Equity in Scottish Education: the National Improvement Framework - leaflet for teachers available on the National Improvement Framework page
28/11/2016
NHS Health Scotland's new e-Learning module on Child Poverty, Health and Wellbeing - a link for this module is available on the Attainment Gap page.
12/10/2016
- a link to the Autism Toolbox, from the Scottish Government and Scottish Autism, is available via the Additional Support Needs page.
05/10/2016
Additional reading materials added to the Professional Reading Group page:
- Ten Challenges to becoming a truly creative school in Scotland by Sir Tim Brighouse and David Cameron
- Less is More: Marking with a Purpose (presentation by Victoria Hewett aka Mrs Humanities)
- Marking is an Act of Love (blog post by David Didau aka The Learning Spy)
04/10/2016
- a link to the keynote presentations delivered at this year's Scottish Learning Festival is available on the External Events page.
14/09/2016
- Charlaine Simpson's presentation on Practitioner Enquiry, delivered as our first PLA of the year on behalf of the GTCS, is available from the Inhouse Professional Learning Activities page.
08/09/2016
- Links to the resources mentioned by David Cameron in his conversation with staff on 07/09/2016 are available from the Professional Reading Group page along with a copy of his presentation.
29/08/2016
- New guidance from John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, on CfE and Benchmarks for Literacy and English and Numeracy and Mathematics is available from the Curriculum for Excellence page
A link to the Scottish Government's delivery plan setting out how it will deliver excellence and equity in education for every child in Scotland is available via the Attainment Gap page
04/08/2106
- New page - Curriculum for Excellence - has a link to the newly-published CfE Implementation Plan 2016/17
21/07/2016
- a presentation by Dylan Wiliam on Key Drivers for Educational Transformation is available on the Attainment Gap page
03/07/2016
- A link to the Scottish Government's delivery plan setting out how it will deliver excellence and equity in education for every child in Scotland is available via the Attainment Gap page
- Resources, videos and presentations from the Scottish Attainment Challenge National learning Event (9 June 2016) are available via a link on the Attainment Challenge page
14/06/2016
- New page - Classroom Practice, first article posted 'How to make a good teacher' from The Economist
01/06/2016
- A link to the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy 2015 (Numeracy) results is available from the Numeracy across Learning page
18/05/2016
- Updates to the Useful Website Links page - links to educational author and international speaker Sir John Jones' website and to the Sutton Trust's 2014 report - 'What Makes Great Teaching?' and the Teacher Development Trust's 2015 report 'Developing Great Teaching' both of which involved Professor Rob Coe, researcher in educational assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice.
16/05/2016
- A link to the 'Developing Teacher Leadership Report', published in April by the Scottish College for Educational Leadership, is available on the Educational Leadership page.
14/05/2016
- Two articles added to the Health and Wellbeing page, under the heading 'Children's Mental and Emotional Health'
06/05/2016
- Two articles added to the Educational Leadership page: 'The Professional Teacher: Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents' and 'What is a "Professional Learning Community"?'
- A New page headed 'Pupil Voice' has been created. Check out the articles on it.
29/04/2016
- New page - Interdisciplinary Learning
21/04/2016
- Making Thinking Visible - new page
08/04/2016
- A summary of a report published by the National Children's Bureau called 'Poverty and children's personal and social relationships' is now on the Attainment Gap page and there's also a link to the full report.
01/04/2016
- A New page headed 'Parents' has links to some useful information aimed at parents, eg National Improvement Framework in a Nutshell.