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• Established 1966
• Membership: • The 32 Local Authorities
• Independent schools
• FE colleges
Dunfermline (Fife)
Personnel (~25 in total)
• Teachers:
- secondary (biology, chemistry, physics,
technology)
- primary
• Technical staff (subject, IT)
• Administration
Functions?
Health & safety
advice
Equipment / Consultancy
Publications
Publications
SSERC Professional Development
-
‘Pupil-centred, by teachers for teachers’
CPD@SSERC
Technical Staff
Student Teachers
Primary & Secondary Teachers
Curriculum Leaders
• Experiential
• Supports practical science
• Curriculum related
• Of direct use in classroom
Generally:
• at no or little cost to school
• provides resources to support
implementation of activities
Funding:
• Scottish Government
• NSLC
– ENTHUSE
– Contemporary science
• Others
External Evaluation (2011)
Kevin Lowden and Stuart Hall
with
Vic Lally and Rebecca Mancy
Scottish Council for Research in Education,
University of Glasgow
Health & Safety Executive
Local
Authorities
Scottish
Government
Schools /
Further Education
Science Centres
Higher Education Professional bodies /
Charitable sector
Research Institutes /
External Agencies
Scottish
Government Agencies
NSLC
Professional associations and partnerships
Secondary residentials
Short courses
Courses for Technicians 2015/16
Including SQA & IOSH Accredited:
• 11 workshop types
• 37 courses, 273 attendees to date
• 191 certificates awarded
• Waiting lists
E-learning through Glow
• 6 workshops
• Resource boxes
• ~ 250 teachers
NSLC Programme 2015-2016
Short courses-contemporary science
Primary cluster programme
in science & technology
Aims:
Offer opportunities to all primary teachers in a cluster
• Raise levels of confidence and expertise
• Further develop pedagogic and assessment skills
• Develop further individual professional practice
• Further develop collegiality
CPD @ SSERC post 2008
• >20,000 attendances
• All Local Authorities
• >99% of secondary schools
• >25% of primary schools
Primary Secondary Technicians
Attendances 4,500 1,555 457
Schools 250 270 180
Local Authorities
31 32 27
SSERC Professional Learning
1st April 2014 – 31st March 2015
Recommendation 5.6
...it is recommended to the
Scottish Government that
SSERC, working with partner
organisations and linked to the
NSLC in York, becomes
Scotland’s national science
learning centre....
‘The course offered a whole range of
opportunities including practical experience
but it also outlined the bigger messages in
science that are important to consider when
planning a sequence of lessons. A
refreshing approach to CPD'
