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Tes Scotland – the magazine for people who work in and with Scottish schools. Tweets by @Henry_Hepburn and @Emma_Seith
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Make sure to get our new-look, expanded Scottish newsletter - out every term-time Thursday. Here's how to sign up (free of charge) for news and analysis on all the big issues affecting Scottish schools, straight to your inbox👇 https://t.co/LCGYFdPQum
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NEW: Teacher contact time plans include assemblies, tech and timetabling
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Scottish government proposals also call for pilot schemes to ‘begin immediately’ but councils have ‘significant concerns’ about cost and impact - and, along with unions, say they’ve been blindsided
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Health and wellbeing 'underpins everything', School Leaders Scotland delegates are told https://t.co/2EAcTIkmCs
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The profound change happening in Scottish education makes it more important than ever to support colleagues and pupils, says outgoing SLS president
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NEW: Scottish teachers get ‘certainty’ over pay for two years https://t.co/fpffQKPrA9
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But hours after the pay deal announcement details emerge of a ballot on strike action over teachers’ class-contact time
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'The landscape around us is shifting and it is shifting at a pace we have never experienced before,' says @ADEScotland president Laurence Findlay at education directors' annual conference https://t.co/MTo7tZNO7j
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President of Scotland’s education directors’ body calls for a collaborative response to the sector’s challenges, saying that ‘leadership is most powerful when it’s shared’
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Exclusive: Scottish chief inspector salary boosted after two failed recruitment drives https://t.co/5lcNGLMIoc
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The upper end of the salary scale has increased by over £45,000 - prompting a union to question the ‘significant’ amount being spent on ‘an outdated accountability model’
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NEW: The @EISUnion is recommending that its members accept a two-year pay offer https://t.co/InCidFgQS0
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Accepting the teacher pay offer would lead to initial 4.25 per cent rise for Scottish teachers, followed by 3.25 per cent in second year
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Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence https://t.co/xZjf5FX64V
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First minister responds after GMB union highlights ‘dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour’ in Scottish schools
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Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence https://t.co/xZjf5FX64V
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First minister responds after GMB union highlights ‘dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour’ in Scottish schools
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This is a really great piece by @ASCL_UK president @MannyBotwe - who is one of the speakers at the School Leaders Scotland annual conference next week. https://t.co/gH8CTIiz4J
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In our How I Lead series, we ask education leaders to reflect on their careers, their experience and their leadership philosophy. This month we talk to Manny Botwe, headteacher and president of ASCL...
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Teacher CPD is compulsory and structured according experience in Japan - in this piece Laurence Findlay, Aberdeenshire Council's director of education and children's services, reflects on a recent visit to the country and what Scotland can learn https://t.co/e9UpfVXmJM
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Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’ left an impression on the president of Scotland’s national body for education directors
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What can the Scotland learn from Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’ https://t.co/cB7nOT5tSG
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An @sqanews report suggests that many pupils are reluctant to use AI in case they are accused of cheating, and that they want clearer advice from school https://t.co/aeFTRRPMBM
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Only 55 per cent of young people feel their school is clear about appropriate use of AI, finds Scottish Qualifications Authority report
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Exclusive: Survey by @SSTAtradeunion finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking subject classes, with secondary schools also heavily relying on primary teachers amid ‘deepening crisis’ of staff shortages https://t.co/mih4uEBh6G
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‘Deepening crisis’ of staff shortages also sees primary teachers frequently taking on roles in secondary schools, reveals survey by Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association
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NEW: Restraint guidance for schools ‘took too long’, admits Gilruth
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There is ‘probably’ an underreporting of incidents where seclusion or restraint is used in Scottish schools, says education secretary
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NEW: Restraint guidance for schools ‘took too long’, admits Gilruth
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There is ‘probably’ an underreporting of incidents where seclusion or restraint is used in Scottish schools, says education secretary
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A new paper proposes reducing the Scottish school summer holiday by a week to guarantee a fortnight off in October and a week-long break in February claiming this would reduce "fatigue" https://t.co/Mh5A9TCorZ
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A new paper proposes reducing the Scottish school summer holiday by a week to guarantee a fortnight off in October and a week-long break in February
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New: Glasgow education director resigns over budget text messages
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The messages were sent to a councillor and related to Glasgow’s 2024-25 budget which contained plans to cut £27.8 million from education over three years
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ASN numbers likely to rise again, says education secretary
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Jenny Gilruth also says she is ‘astonished’ that food banks and clothing banks have become ‘normal features’ in Scottish schools
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Thinking about a new teaching job? One experienced head shares tips to help you make your CV stand out from the crowd https://t.co/dfYBfLJd4D
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A well-crafted CV could be the ticket to landing your dream teaching job. Here, we look at what makes the perfect educator’s resume
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