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LfS Connect: Sharing and celebrating our Learning for Sustainability journeys

Fri 1st March 2024 - Blog Posts, Courses & Events Summaries, Initial Teacher Education, News, Schools and early learning & childcare settings

Read more about our latest monthly online ‘Connect’ session for educators: just one of the resources and opportunities available on the GTC Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Hub.


It’s back! Join a worldwide learning community with ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’

Mon 12th February 2024 -

We’re delighted to announce the return of ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’; our highly successful FREE online learning opportunity, which has, to date, attracted over 17,000 learners from nearly 160 countries. Starts 11 March.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #17

Mon 15th January 2024 -

This session will have a focus on ‘Responding to the Call to Action in secondary settings’. Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #16

Mon 15th January 2024 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #15

Mon 15th January 2024 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Bringing the STEM curriculum to life: learning for a sustainable world

Mon 7th August 2023 -

Join us on an interactive, collaborative facilitated online learning journey that will help you to plan for, weave together and embed Learning for Sustainability (LfS) across your everyday STEM practice; inspiring real-life, relevant, meaningful and transformative learning about the big issues that shape our world. Open to senior leadership teams, teachers, and early years practitioners from local authority-funded 3-18 yrs settings within the South West and South East Regional Improvement Collaboratives.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #13

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #12

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #11: celebrating Scotland’s new Learning for Sustainability Action Plan

Mon 24th July 2023 -

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.


Teaching, learning and play in the outdoors: a survey of provision in Scotland in 2022.

Fri 31st March 2023 - Blog Posts, News, Schools and early learning & childcare settings

A new report from NatureScot and partners has highlighted how Scotland’s children could be offered increased amounts of outdoor learning and play, stimulating a post-pandemic generation’s connection to nature and its benefits.