Support for School Staff

Continuing Professional Development
The Highland Continuing Professional Development (CPD) web site has information on courses for school staff in Highland.   It has additional material to support probationer teachers and those working towards Chartered Teacher or management qualifications.   It also includes the Highland CPD Framework, which has information on the professional review and development process for teachers.

Highland Virtual Learning Community
(link is located in related information)
This is Highland’s learning and teaching web site.   In the pupils’ section you will find web sites selected for their relevance to the school curriculum and sites to help them choose books to read for pleasure.   The parents’ section has information about schools in Highland, and about the Psychological and Support for Learners services which support pupils who have difficulties of various kinds which affect their learning.   Parents may also be interested in the Learning and Teaching Toolkit, which is a guide to help teachers put into practice the aims of the learning and teaching policy.   The staffroom includes a range of information to support teachers, school librarians and other school staff.   The quality assurance section includes information relating to policy and planning.

 

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