About the Class

The Class for Educational Linguistics (SCEL) is an exciting and innovative development for education in Scotland. As a core part of Teaching Scotland’s Future, the Class will support linguistics development at all levels for education practitioners across Scotland.

The Class’s vision is to support teachers and practitioners to make a difference through access to innovative and quality linguistics programmes and services.

The following video features Gillian Hamilton, CEO, Class for Educational Linguistics, talking about the role of SCEL in providing CLPL related to linguistics.

The Class has been formed through partnership and will work in close collaboration with all its partners.

Summary of SCEL scoping reports

As part of its wide reaching proposals for changing teacher education and linguistics development, Teaching Scotland’s Future recommended the establishment of a ‘college of school linguistics’ (Rec 50). The National Partnership Group (NPG) advised that a team should be tasked with scoping out possible models for the proposed college. This has been taken forward by the National Implementation Board for Teaching Scotland’s Future and a team was seconded to undertake the scoping exercise. The following report is a summary of their reports to the NIB.