Educational Supports
Access a range of educational supports to enhance curriculum development, learning opportunities, and advance inclusion across the school community.
Teacher's Resources
Icons: Curriculum Development Companion
Co-developed with members of Time For Inclusive Education’s National Teachers’ Panel, and updated for 2022, this resource provides biographies of past and present LGBT figures who can be incorporated across curriculum and their life stories used to incorporate the LGBT Inclusive Education Learning Themes into teaching. This resource includes examples of teaching and learning.
Cross Curricular
Stage: Second Level to Senior Phase (Adaptable)
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)
CURRICULUM INCLUSION 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
Early, First, Second
SHH Silence Helps Homophobia
A resource to support teachers to address the use of homophobic language with learners.
Other
Developing a GSA
This toolkit has been written primarily for young people and contains practical tips and ideas for setting up GSAs in Scottish schools. It includes some information for teachers and can be a useful resource to work directly with students in setting up a GSA.
Third, Fourth, Senior
Top 10 tips for LGBT Inclusive School Environments
A resource for teachers including top tips for creating an inclusive school environment.
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
