Implementing a local authority training model for Glow Learn

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Gemma Pirie and Martin Coutts are staff tutors working for Aberdeenshire authority. Gemma and Martin were tasked with developing and implementing a training model to roll out Glow Learn to secondary schools across the authority.

Context

Seconded to Aberdeenshire authority as staff tutors, Gemma Pirie and Martin Coutts were tasked with developing and implementing a model for delivering Glow Learn training to the seventeen secondary schools in Aberdeenshire. Using the national Glow Learn training programme as a template, Gemma and Martin set about applying the tweaks they felt necessary to fit the local context. A training programme was agreed with each of the high schools where ten staff, providing a spread across all of the secondary departments, would be released for one and a half days of training. The agreed programme consisted of one full day of training followed by a half day, two weeks later.

In this cookbook, Martin takes us through the training model, how it was delivered and the response to date.

For further video support on using Glow Learn, follow the link below:

Glow Learn cookbook videos

For downloadable versions of Glow Learn helpsheets and training guide, follow the link below (Glow login required):

Glow Learn guide and helpsheets

Impact

It is clear that Gemma and Martin’s efforts have paid off and that secondary staff in Aberdeenshire enjoyed a valuable, worthwhile CPD experience in Glow Learn. The introduction of Glow is helping to develop a new era of cooperation and sharing in Scottish Education and through this cookbook, local authorities, schools and teachers across Scotland can benefit from the work done by Gemma and Martin in Aberdeenshire.