Education team
Skills Development Scotland’s Education Team
We support teachers, other practitioners, parents and a wide range of partners across Scotland to play their complementary roles in delivering young people’s entitlement to a meaningful career education.
Career education is a process of learning, designed to help young people to develop the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to make well informed, relevant choices and plans for their future, so they can progress smoothly into further learning and work.
There has never been a more crucial time to focus on career education and skills development within young people and we need to help our learners develop skills for the 21st century.
To find out why career education and skills are important watch this short video.
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Our professional learning offer
Find out more about our professional learning offer for academic year 2024/25 on this one page document
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Topics that impact young people's successful transition into the world of work
Meta-skills toolkit
We have developed this toolkit through consultation with educators and other partners to create a suite of resources that will support practitioners to embed skills in a manageable and sustainable way.
DYW
Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is the Scottish Government’s Youth Employment strategy to better prepare young people for the world of work.
Shaping futures
How to use LMI to support career planning. These web resources provide industry insights, examples of planning activity using LMI and how to build skills in LMI for teachers, DYW staff and others involved in Career collaboration.
Who we work with
Schools
Our work with schools involves delivering high-quality professional learning for teachers as well as a suite of resources that supports the continuous embedding of career education in the classroom.
Colleges
Our work with colleges includes the delivery of high-quality professional learning for practitioners and the provision of learning and teaching resources to support the embedding of career education.
Local authority groups and networks
We can contribute to strategic and operational local authority networks such as head teacher groups or school DYW leads.
Universities
We support universities that deliver initial teacher education (ITE) programmes across Scotland through the delivery of professional learning workshops and development of resources that will support future teaching practitioners with the embedding of career education in their practice.
Contact the Education Team
Contact the Education team to discuss your requirements and how we can support you in your ambitions around career education.
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