Professional learning
Our professional learning offer is designed to support educators in deepening their understanding of career education and its value to both learners and practitioners.
Through a suite of workshops, resources, and activities, we introduce key career education themes and offer practical approaches of how these can be embedded into everyday learning in a practical, manageable, and sustainable way.
All of our professional learning is aligned with the expectations set out in the Career Education Standard (3-18) and for 2025/2026 we are transitioning our offer to align with the national model of professional learning.
More details on the variety of professional learning approaches we have on offer can be found below or by downloading our 2025/2026 professional learning offer.
SDS Education Team Professional Learning 2025-2026
These workshops are facilitated by a member of the SDS Education team.
They can be delivered to all staff, leadership teams and working groups in a standard format or tailored to reflect your establishment’s progress and needs, either as a single event or as part of an extended programme. You can find details of the workshops we have available on page 3 of our 2025/26 professional learning offer.
If you would like to book a workshop, please complete the online form or email education@sds.co.uk
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Autumn Term Date: Tuesday 23rd September 2025 Time: 4:00 to 4:45pm Meta-skills in practice: sharing approaches from primary schools Date: Wednesday 8th October 2025 Time: 4:00 to 5:15pm Winter Term Introduction to career education Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025 Time: 4:00 to 4:45pm Meta-skills in practice: sharing approaches from ASN settings Date: Thursday 4th December 2025 Time: 4:00 to 5:15pm Spring Term Date: Wednesday 21st January 2026 Time: 4:00 to 4:45pm Meta-skills in practice: sharing approaches from secondary schools Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026 Time: 4:00 to 5:15pm Introduction to career education Date: Tuesday 3rd March 2026 Time: 4:00 to 4:45pm Summer Term Meta-skills in practice: sharing approaches from schools across Scotland Date: Tuesday 12th May 2026 Time: 4:00 to 5:15pm
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The virtual professional learning and sharing practice events planned for this academic year are listed below. Click the links to find out more about each event and to book your place.
This collection of resources is for use by those leading professional learning in their school or educational setting and have been informed by the national model of professional learning.
All resources:
- are downloadable and can be tailored to suit your needs
- include suggested facilitation notes and timings
- are planned with a range of activities to increase knowledge, skills and confidence
Career education self-evaluation: a structured hands-on approach for schools to reflect on their progress and identify next steps using the Career Education Standard (CES) self-evaluation toolkit. It provides education settings with a CES baseline for future benchmarking, aids familiarisation, helps identify and share effective practice and supports planning for improvement.
- Career education self-evaluation presentation (coming soon)
- Career education self-evaluation scoresheet (coming soon)
Embedding skills audit: a structured hands-on approach for schools to reflect on how skills are being embedded and identify next steps using the skills audit toolkit. It provides education setting with a skills baseline for future benchmarking, aids familiarisation, helps identify and share effective practice and supports planning for improvement.
An introduction to Career Management Skills: an interactive workshop that introduces CMS, considers how these competencies are already part of day-to-day learning and teaching and explores practical approaches to further develop young people’s CMS as an integral part of the curriculum.
Our suite of self-directed professional learning activities build upon the original suite of career education learning resources and have been updated to included current policy, research and new activities. They can be used by individuals or as a small group to increase knowledge, share practice and support planning for improvement.
The activities we currently have available are listed below:
- Introduction to the Career Education Standard (3-18)
- Introduction to Career Management Skills.
- Introduction to Labour Market Information (coming soon)
Contact the Education Team
Contact the Education team to discuss your requirements and how we can support you in your ambitions around career education.
Email the Education Team