Recognising and realising children’s rights: A professional learning resource to promote self-evaluation and improvement planning

This is a one day professional learning module which:

raises awareness and develops knowledge and understanding of the United Nation Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
allows establishments to self-evaluate their practice in light of the UNCRC
supports improvement planning within establishments

Explore this approach

This professional learning resource helps improve practitioners' knowledge, understanding and application of the UNCRC. The resource:

explores the UNCRC articles
looks at the evolution of children’s rights across the world
links the UNCRC articles to the Scottish education context and provides tools to support self-evaluation and improvement
provides helpful case studies to demonstrate practice in this area

How to use this approach

This self-evaluation approach could be used to provide professional learning to practitioners around the UNCRC and to help them reflect on how they are taking forward children’s rights within their school context. It also links well to How Good is Our School? (fourth edition).

Some key improvement questions include:

How well do we understand the UNCRC and how the articles within it relate to the practice in our school?
How well do we understand and demonstrate our role as duty bearers of children’s rights?
To what extent do we make links between the UNCRC and our culture, values and ethos; skills and activities; curricular programmes and targeted support?