Online CPTD courses for teachers

Prepare to run a Code Club

This short course will give you the confidence and skills to run an in person Code Club for young people and inspire the next generation to get excited about computing and digital making.

Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction

This introductory course is the gateway to the seven other courses which make up the programme. As a starting point for exploring these seven themes this course provides an overview of what you will go on to study in greater depth.

Get Organised: How to be a Together Teacher

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This course is designed for classroom teachers who juggle time-sensitive tasks and often exhausting teaching schedules. The Together Teacher examines the purpose for planning ahead, provides tools for tracking time commitments, deadlines and tasks.

Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning Through Play

Learn how to provide playful and engaging social-emotional learning (SEL) support to children affected by changes in their lives like family issues or the COVID-19 disruption.

Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking

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Get an introduction to what entrepreneurial thinking is, and how and why we should teach it.

Creating Apps in the Classroom

Find out how to create your own educational apps to support learning activities in your classroom.

Teaching Phonics in Early Childhood

Intentionally and explicitly teaching the relationship between letters and sounds through play-based pedagogies is crucial. There is much popular debate surrounding this topic, amongst researchers, teachers, parents and education authorities.

Introduction to the Learning Through Play Experience Tool

Become better at observing and capturing the quality of a child’s experience of learning through play.

Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Abstraction, Methods, and Lists.

This course teaches the concepts of nested loops, events, and variables. For each concept, we'll start by helping you connect real-world experiences you are already familiar with to the programming concept you are about to learn.

Lumio by SMART Teacher Guide

This teacher's guide introduces you to Lumio by SMART. With interactive lessons, game-based activities, collaboration tools, and formative assessments, Lumio is designed to engage students in class and at home.

SMART Notebook 23 Teacher Guide

SMART Teacher Guide Series - SMART Notebook 23 is the Award-winning desktop software for creating engaging learning experiences with your SMART Board®. With SMART Notebook®, delivering engaging lessons has never been easier.

Canva for Education

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Welcome to our ‘Getting Started with Canva for Education course. Learn about Canva for Education basics with these 11 lessons and be inspired by the supporting resources. Now this course is SACE accredited.

AI, Chatbots & ChatGPT for Teachers

This course is intended to help teachers in their understanding and use of Artificial Intelligence in the form of the ChatGPT chatbot in their practice. It is intended to be both an introduction and an improvement tool.

An Introduction to New Thinking for Your Classroom

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Learn how to practice self-awareness and improve your teaching style, his course will show you how to bring new thinking to your classroom and is based on materials from the Commonwealth Education Trust, enabling reflection on practice.

Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms

Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy. This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment.

Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Being a Teacher

How we teach has its foundation in how we were taught and how we learned. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development as a teacher.

Teaching Digital Literacy: Videogames in Education

In this four-week course, you’ll explore new ways to teach digital literacies with videogames, helping you to use videogames and game design as an educational tool.

How to Succeed as a Newly Qualified Teacher

Learn management strategies and skills to support yourself as a newly qualified teacher in your first teaching post and beyond.

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