Learning for Sustainability Scotland

LfS Connect: Practitioner enquiry and Learning for Sustainability

Fri 22nd March 2024 - Courses & Events Summaries, Initial Teacher Education, Schools and early learning & childcare settings

The General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Hub, developed in partnership with LfS Scotland, provides a one-stop-shop to help educators across the 3-18 continuum to ‘explore, engage, enact & embed, and connect’ with Learning for Sustainability in their individual practice – and the wider life of their setting.

A key element of the Hub is ‘LfS Connect’: which includes monthly online sessions; offering educators a space in which to network and collaborate with others, and explore key aspects of Learning for Sustainability.

The Connect session on 21st March 2024 offered participants an opportunity to hear more about and discuss ‘Practitioner enquiry and Learning for Sustainability’.

This session provided participants with the following. Click on the hyperlinks to watch video recordings of each element:

An update of the current policy landscape with regard to LfS and the opportunities this affords for creating a personal and whole-setting ethos of practitioner enquiry
An insight from GTC Scotland on practitioner enquiry and the impact it can have on practice – and learners
An inspiring LfS practitioner enquiry example from Carolyn McFarlane; Principal Teacher, Curriculum Outdoors Attainment Challenge (COACh) in the East Ayrshire Council Learning Outdoors Support Team
The opportunity to share their own LfS journeys and hear from others in small-group discussions
The chance to share their thoughts with the whole group and hear about further opportunities in a Plenary discussion.

Click here to view the slides from the session; which contain hyperlinks to further information, resources. and opportunities.

Share your Learning for Sustainability journey!

We’ve designed ‘LfS Connect’ to be an ongoing opportunity for educators to inspire one another.

In addition to the monthly online sessions, it contains an interactive map, which any educator can access – and add their own Learning for Sustainability story to.

Please click here to find out more – and add yours!