Using the Professional Standards
The Professional Standards belong to Scotland’s teachers. GTC Scotland act as guardians for the Professional Standards with and for Scotland’s teachers.
Teachers use them individually and collaboratively, contributing to both their own professional growth and the professional growth of others. The Professional Standards are brought alive through professional practice. They are central to Professional Review and Development (PRD) and Professional Update (PU).
You can use the Professional Standards
- To ask critical questions and support enactment of Professional Values, Professional Commitment, Professional Knowledge, Understanding, Skills and Abilities
- As an aspirational and developmental framework
- To inform and plan professional learning
- To self-evaluate and challenge thinking
- To select development areas relevant to you and your learners
- As a reference and reflection point for professional dialogue
- To support professional judgement when adapting professional actions
The Professional Standards belong to Scotland’s teachers. GTC Scotland act as guardians for the Professional Standards with and for Scotland’s teachers.
Teachers use them individually and collaboratively, contributing to both their own professional growth and the professional growth of others. The Professional Standards are brought alive through professional practice. They are central to Professional Review and Development (PRD) and Professional Update (PU).
You can use the Professional Standards
- To ask critical questions and support enactment of Professional Values, Professional Commitment, Professional Knowledge, Understanding, Skills and Abilities
- As an aspirational and developmental framework
- To inform and plan professional learning
- To self-evaluate and challenge thinking
- To select development areas relevant to you and your learners
- As a reference and reflection point for professional dialogue
- To support professional judgement when adapting professional actions
Embedding the Professional Standards in your practice
Teachers registered with GTC Scotland commit to making a real difference, as is recognised in each of the Professional Standards:
Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland. This means teachers commit to living the professional values and engage in lifelong learning, reflection, enquiry, leadership of learning and collaborative practice as key aspects of their professionalism. This commitment to professional learning and growth, to the growth of learners, and to helping support that of colleagues, is demonstrated through engagement with all aspects of professional practice. - Professional Standards for Scotland’s Teachers
It is through this demonstration of engagement that the Professional Standards are brought to life.
The Professional Standards are written by and for the Scottish teaching profession.
Taking ownership of the Professional Standard(s) most relevant to you and to your professional development and bringing it to life, however, is a wholly active process that can only be enacted by you.
It is your own exploration, your own engagement and, ultimately, your own practice that brings the written word alive to embody, embed and further develop what it means to be a teacher in Scotland.
The Professional Standards belong to Scotland’s teachers. GTC Scotland act as guardians for the Professional Standards with and for Scotland’s teachers.
Teachers use them individually and collaboratively, contributing to both their own professional growth and the professional growth of others. The Professional Standards are brought alive through professional practice. They are central to Professional Review and Development (PRD) and Professional Update (PU).
You can use the Professional Standards
- To ask critical questions and support enactment of Professional Values, Professional Commitment, Professional Knowledge, Understanding, Skills and Abilities
- As an aspirational and developmental framework
- To inform and plan professional learning
- To self-evaluate and challenge thinking
- To select development areas relevant to you and your learners
- As a reference and reflection point for professional dialogue
- To support professional judgement when adapting professional actions
Embedding the Professional Standards in your practice
Teachers registered with GTC Scotland commit to making a real difference, as is recognised in each of the Professional Standards:
Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland. This means teachers commit to living the professional values and engage in lifelong learning, reflection, enquiry, leadership of learning and collaborative practice as key aspects of their professionalism. This commitment to professional learning and growth, to the growth of learners, and to helping support that of colleagues, is demonstrated through engagement with all aspects of professional practice. - Professional Standards for Scotland’s Teachers
It is through this demonstration of engagement that the Professional Standards are brought to life.
The Professional Standards are written by and for the Scottish teaching profession.
Taking ownership of the Professional Standard(s) most relevant to you and to your professional development and bringing it to life, however, is a wholly active process that can only be enacted by you.
It is your own exploration, your own engagement and, ultimately, your own practice that brings the written word alive to embody, embed and further develop what it means to be a teacher in Scotland.