Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge are in the business of helping others to be the best version of themselves. By delivering inspirational training programmes, keynotes and coaching for schools and businesses around the globe, we are bringing an Entertaining, Enlightening and Educational revolution. Our vision is simple… Inspire the World.

Over the last 18 years Tree of Knowledge have been working closely with our partners across Scottish education to develop and design our diet of professional learning. Through a range of Entertaining, Enlightening an Educational programmes, workshops, partner events and bespoke experiences, Tree of Knowledge supports practitioners through the stages of becoming, being and growing as a teacher as exemplified in the GTCS Professional Standards for Scotland Teachers 2021.

We pride ourselves on building partnerships with our clients which allows us to ensure that all our offerings can be tailored to meet the needs of a given context, whilst ensuring that learning is personalised and relevant. We have partners from across the education spectrum including primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities across Scotland. We also have long established relationships with local authorities that allow us to get under the skin of what being a teacher in Scotland means, ensuring that our professional learning experiences are designed to meet the needs of practitioners at all stages of their careers.

All of our learning experiences have been developed to support teacher professionalism by enhancing practitioner’s knowledge and understanding of positive psychology-based approaches promoting partnership, leadership, enquiry and professional learning as well as individual self-evaluation strategies which contribute to their personal, professional, and school’s improvement. This is exemplified through our GTCS accredited Professional Recognition in Self-Evaluation programme ‘VIBE for Middle Leaders’ which has been designed to equip middle leaders with the essential skills to becoming an effective enquiring and self-evaluation leaders in their schools. We have a range of professional learning in addition to this including our programme Enabling Effective Communication which supports the development of communication skills for teachers at various stages of their careers. Through our learning experiences practitioners will enhance their critical self-evaluation skills and develop the tools to embed an enquiring stance at the heart of their practice. To support teacher professionalism more widely we have developed a diet of short engaging workshops that are grounded in the GTCS standard for Career-Long Professional Learning.

Our strong partnership working across the world of Scottish Education has allowed us to develop a wide range of bespoke professional learning experiences to meet the needs of teachers at various stages of their careers. Most recently we delivered a range of professional learning experiences as part of the Education Scotland and GTCS Stepping Stones project to support recently qualified teachers. Throughout the pandemic we have also partnered with Education Scotland to deliver a range of professional learning experiences for all school staff, Community Learning and Development staff and Systems Leaders.