Information for establishments, professional learning
Professional learning provides an important opportunity for psychologists to help others understand and meet children’s needs. By training others, psychologists can help children and young people, more effectively than they ever could working only with individuals. Professional learning helps build a skilled workforce with the capacity to respond effectively to children’s needs.
In what areas can the Educational Psychology Service offer professional learning?
The Educational Psychology Service is experienced in offering a wide range of professional learning to schools, parents and other groups. Professional learning is offered on universal issues affecting all children for example literacy, social and emotional skills and thinking skills. More targeted professional learning is also offered on additional support needs that affect a minority of pupils for example dyslexia and autism spectrum disorders.
Why should the Educational Psychology Service offer professional learning?
Psychology underpins developments in education and child development. Educational psychologists are ideally placed to help spread the benefits of psychology to others through courses and the development of professional learning packages.
What kind of professional learning events are psychologists involved in?
Psychologists are involved in developing and delivering a full range of professional learning from short talks, interactive seminars and workshops to major conferences and longer professional learning programmes designed to share useful skills and knowledge. Requests for professional learning are considered in line with North Ayrshire Council priorities.
Examples of educational psychologists’ involvement in professional learning:
- The Authority Promoting Positive Relationships policy
- Nurture
- Change and Loss
- Scottish Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA)
- Restorative Approaches
- Solution Oriented Schools
- Courses on specific difficulties such as autism and dyslexia
- Download our Professional Learning Menu (Word)
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