Educational Supports
Access a range of educational supports to enhance curriculum development, learning opportunities, and advance inclusion across the school community.
Teacher Resources
Mirrors and Windows: Information Note
This Information Note, provided by Education Scotland, includes further detail on the curriculum making tool ‘Mirrors and Windows’. This features in both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the professional learning course ‘Delivering LGBT Inclusive Education’.
Featuring reflection questions and further reading, this document supports teachers in diversifying the representation provided in their curriculum content for learners across stages.
Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities Professional Learning Framework
The Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities Professional Learning Framework supports anyone working with children and young people in an educational context. It can also support those who work with adult learners, parents, carers, families and in community learning contexts.
Provided by Education Scotland, this professional learning framework simplifies the professional learning landscape for inclusion, wellbeing and equalities. A series of activities are provided to enhance staff knowledge and understanding.
Manifesto for Inclusive Physical Education
The Manifesto for Inclusive Physical Education is a set of commitments developed by school pupils in Scotland, which builds upon those pupils’ lived experiences of taking part in school sport as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) young people. By signing up to the manifesto, schools can demonstrate a visible commitment to improving those experiences by working to make physical education and school sport fully LGBTI inclusive.
Health and Wellbeing
Stage: Third, Fourth, Senior
Icons: Infographics Pack
These infographics include biographies about some past and present LGBT figures and role models. They can be printed and displayed within the classroom or across the school community. When you put the infographics together, you will have an educational wall display.
Cross Curricular
Stage: Second Level to Senior Phase (Adaptable)
LGBT Mapping Across Curriculum for Excellence
This document contains guidance for each curriculum area on how to include LGBT voices and identities in the classroom. These are suggestions and ideas; it will be up to teachers to choose how exactly this will work in their classroom and school. To support this, there are links to further information including lesson plans and activities at the end of this document.
Cross Curricular
Third, Fourth, Senior
Involving Parents and Carers
A guide for practitioners to involve parents and carers in LGBT inclusion work within the school.
Responding to that’s so gay – Primary Schools
A guide to help practitioners feel more confident to respond to and teach about homophobic language in a primary school setting.
Health and Wellbeing
Stage: First, Second
SHH Silence Helps Homophobia
A resource to support teachers to address the use of homophobic language with learners.
Stage: Third, Fourth, Senior
Other
Role Models - Being Yourself: LGBT Lives in Scotland
This guide profiles a wide variety of Scottish LGBT people. Education professionals can use these profiles to plan lessons on LGBT people and themes across a variety of subjects.
Level: Third, Fourth, Senior Phase
