Individual modules
Personalise your training. Complete a range of three-hour self-study training modules. On successfully finishing each training module, you will be able to print off a certificate of completion.
Course: Special educational needs
Learning Path
Complete all eleven modules on special educational needs and download a 33 hour Special Educational Needs certificate.
Engaging with assessment for learning
Learning Path
Apply assessment for learning strategies in your context and share your learners' feelings of achievement. Take this module now and see the benefits straight away.
Engaging with CLIL – assessment for CLIL for primary
Learning Path
Let's explore the purpose of assessment, its key features and the differences between assessment of learning (summative assessment) and assessment for learning (formative assessment).
Engaging with CLIL – CLIL competences
Learning Path
Investigate why CLIL is growing. Take this module and identify the learner and teacher competencies developed in a CLIL curriculum.
Engaging with CLIL – CLIL competences for primary
Learning Path
Investigate why CLIL is growing. If you teach primary aged children, take this module and identify the learner and teacher competencies developed in a CLIL curriculum.
Engaging with CLIL – curriculum, unit and lesson planning
Learning Path
Join this CLIL module to explore definitions and stages of curriculum organisation as well as looking at CLIL objectives, how a CLIL unit is sequenced and writing appropriate learning outcomes for a CLIL unit or lesson.
Engaging with CLIL – language demands and thinking skills
Learning Path
Improve your lesson planning. Take this module to help you balance the challenges of language and tasks and develop higher order thinking skills in your lessons.
Engaging with CLIL – language demands and thinking skills for primary
Learning Path
Improve your lesson planning. If you teach primary ages, take this module to help you balance the challenges of language and tasks and develop higher order thinking skills in your lessons.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting learners
Learning Path
Analyse how you support your learners to get the most out of each lesson. Take this module to help you build on scaffolding techniques using yourself, digital and non-digital resources.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting learners for primary
Learning Path
Analyse how you support your learners to get the most out of each lesson. If you teach primary ages, take this module to help you build on scaffolding techniques using yourself, digital and non-digital resources.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting output and interactions
Learning Path
The perfect module to help you implement support strategies that help your learners speak and write about their subjects in English
Engaging with CLIL – teaching vocabulary and adapting materials
Learning Path
Take this module to identify the subject-specific, general academic, or general procedural vocabulary demands in a text or task and adapt your techniques to support learners.
Engaging with CLIL – teaching vocabulary and adapting materials for primary
Learning Path
If you teach primary aged learners, take this module to identify the subject-specific, general academic, or general procedural vocabulary demands in a text or task and adapt your techniques to support learners.
Engaging with core skills – communication, collaboration and citizenship
Learning Path
Take this module to explore ways to critically and meaningfully engage your learners in key global issues.
Engaging with core skills – deep learning
Learning Path
Take this Core Skills module to go through the surface into deep learning, questioning and the cycle of improvement.
Engaging with leadership, management and leadership styles
Learning Path
Dive into this module to explore what makes a great leader and why leadership and management are so important in increasing learning outcomes
Engaging with learning technologies – cyber well-being
Learning Path
Build your understanding of the potential risks in the internet and how to teach your learners to be safer online.
Engaging with learning technologies – digital literacies
Learning Path
Consider the impact on and change in learning due to digital literacies. Take this module to identify new ways to teach traditional skills.
Engaging with learning technologies – school links projects
Learning Path
Develop your understanding of and ideas for collaborative online schools projects. Take this module for practical steps and evaluation tools.
Engaging with learning technologies - tablets in the classroom
Learning Path
This module explores purposeful and pedagogically sound approaches to integrating tablets and apps in the classroom to develop the skills your learners need. By the end you'll understand the benefits of using tablets and how they can be integrated in the classroom, develop classroom activities and understand the issues you need to consider when using tablets in the classroom. You'll also design activities using augmented reality apps and integrate them into your curriculum.
Engaging with motivational activities
Learning Path
Take this module to see how different classroom activities can be energising and motivational for learners.
Engaging with professional development – keeping up to date
Learning Path
Find out how best to keep up to date with developments in teaching and learning and create a professional development portfolio to meet your goals.
Engaging with professional development – peer observation
Learning Path
Visit the advantages of different types of observations and how to give constructive feedback. Take this module and develop your skills either as a teacher or a teacher trainer.
Engaging with professional development – the reflective teacher
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to increase your understanding of reflective practice - the process of thinking about, evaluating, analysing and reviewing what takes place in the classroom.
Engaging with SEN – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for all the learners in your class. Take this module and immediately use your new techniques to make your classes the best they can be.
Engaging with SEN – autism spectrum disorder
Learning Path
Help build a better learning environment for learners with autism spectrum disorders.
Engaging with SEN – dyslexia
Learning Path
Become the best teacher you can be. Start seeing the difference you make for your dyslexic learners in classes straight away.
Engaging with SEN – dyspraxia
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for your learners with dyspraxia. See the difference as you start using the tried and trusted techniques from this module.
Engaging with SEN – gifted and talented learners
Learning Path
Explore the different ways learners are gifted and talented. Take on strategies to help to engage, make them feel valued and give them the appropriate academic challenge.
Engaging with SEN – inclusive assessment approaches
Learning Path
Become an even better teacher. Take this module and make sure you're including everyone for the best results in your classes.
Engaging with SEN – multicultural influences
Learning Path
This module helps you to consider some of the issues around multilingualism and multiculturalism. You learn to equip your learners with the tools they will need to bridge culture divides thus making learning relevant and effective.
Engaging with SEN – social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
Learning Path
This module will look at the special educational needs of learners with SEBD and how these needs impact on learning.
Engaging with SEN - speech and language
Learning Path
Evaluate teaching strategies to include learners with speech and language difficulties in your classroom. Take this module and help learners with speech and language difficulties to acquire new skills.
Engaging with thinking skills in the classroom
Learning Path
Improve your learners' performance. Take this module and immediately start promoting the use of thinking skills in every lesson.
Leadership training – Planning, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing
Learning Path
The aim of this leadership training module is to introduce you to the cycle of planning, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing. This cycle can play an important role in school improvement. The module looks at each stage in the cycle, and at the importance of self-evaluation.
Schools Now! Conference 2020
Learning Path
This is the home of our Schools Now! 2020 conference highlights. The theme of this video content is Developing Global Leaders: Preparing young people for life in school and beyond. There is no certificate issued for watching the videos.
Subject teacher: Engaging with CLIL – task design and implementation for primary
Learning Path
Jump into this module to understand the principles and demands of task design in CLIL. Use these principles to analyse a task and use criteria to evaluate or adapt a text. Also, implement support strategies to make texts accessible to learners using the Cummins' framework to map and, if needed, adjust the difficulty level of a task.
Understanding approaches to inclusive learning
Learning Path
Reflect on diversity in your school and learn how to find out more about your learners and address diversity in the classroom.
Understanding assessment for learning
Learning Path
Help your learners to meet and exceed their learning goals. Take this module and watch as your groups' results improve.
Understanding behaviour management for primary
Learning Path
Manage your primary classroom like an expert. Take this module and maximise the time you and your learners spend together.
Understanding child protection
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to introduce you to the topic of child protection in schools. Investigate issues that can arise and gain some practical tips for best practice in your school.
Understanding classroom interaction for primary
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to examine ways to maximising opportunities for positive interaction with children by the way teachers interact with their learners.
Understanding CLIL – CLIL in practice
Learning Path
Compare CLIL contexts and evaluate your strengths in CLIL. Take this module and draw up a list of techniques that help learners follow English-medium classes and identify how observation can help you.
Understanding CLIL – CLIL in practice for primary
Learning Path
Compare CLIL contexts and evaluate your strengths in CLIL. If you teach primary aged children, take this module and draw up a list of techniques that help learners follow English-medium classes and identify how observation can help you. The lesson examples, videos, etc. are for teaching learners under 12.
Understanding CLIL – guiding input
Learning Path
This module explores teacher and classroom language. How to use it, how to be understood and importantly, how to get you learners reading texts in English.
Understanding CLIL – guiding input for primary
Learning Path
This primary specific module explores teacher and classroom language. How to use it, how to be understood and importantly, how to get you learners reading texts in English.
Understanding lesson management 1
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for everyone in your classroom. Take this Understanding lesson management module and immediately see your learners responding better to your new techniques.
Understanding lesson management 2
Learning Path
Become an even better teacher as you develop your classroom management skills further with Understanding lesson management 2.
Understanding lesson management 3
Learning Path
Be the best teacher you can be. Continue to develop your classroom management skills to make sure that every lesson is truly effective.
Understanding lesson planning
Learning Path
Produce more effective lesson plans to perform better as a teacher. Complete this module and see the difference when you take your new plans into the classroom.
Understanding motivation in the classroom
Learning Path
Let's recognise the qualities of a motivational teacher and the benefits of having motivated learners in the classroom.
Understanding SEN – visual, hearing, and physical impairment
Learning Path
Make sure you're including learners with visual, hearing and physical impairments and improve the learning environment in your classroom for all.
Understanding special educational needs (SEN)
Learning Path
By the end of the module you'll have a set of teaching strategies which promote inclusive learning and benefit all pupils with special educational needs.
Understanding thinking skills
Learning Path
Help your learners get the most out of your lessons. Take this module and start promoting the use of thinking skills in all your activities.
Course: Special educational needs
Learning Path
Complete all eleven modules on special educational needs and download a 33 hour Special Educational Needs certificate.
Engaging with assessment for learning
Learning Path
Apply assessment for learning strategies in your context and share your learners' feelings of achievement. Take this module now and see the benefits straight away.
Engaging with CLIL – assessment for CLIL for primary
Learning Path
Let's explore the purpose of assessment, its key features and the differences between assessment of learning (summative assessment) and assessment for learning (formative assessment).
Engaging with CLIL – CLIL competences
Learning Path
Investigate why CLIL is growing. Take this module and identify the learner and teacher competencies developed in a CLIL curriculum.
Engaging with CLIL – CLIL competences for primary
Learning Path
Investigate why CLIL is growing. If you teach primary aged children, take this module and identify the learner and teacher competencies developed in a CLIL curriculum.
Engaging with CLIL – curriculum, unit and lesson planning
Learning Path
Join this CLIL module to explore definitions and stages of curriculum organisation as well as looking at CLIL objectives, how a CLIL unit is sequenced and writing appropriate learning outcomes for a CLIL unit or lesson.
Engaging with CLIL – language demands and thinking skills
Learning Path
Improve your lesson planning. Take this module to help you balance the challenges of language and tasks and develop higher order thinking skills in your lessons.
Engaging with CLIL – language demands and thinking skills for primary
Learning Path
Improve your lesson planning. If you teach primary ages, take this module to help you balance the challenges of language and tasks and develop higher order thinking skills in your lessons.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting learners
Learning Path
Analyse how you support your learners to get the most out of each lesson. Take this module to help you build on scaffolding techniques using yourself, digital and non-digital resources.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting learners for primary
Learning Path
Analyse how you support your learners to get the most out of each lesson. If you teach primary ages, take this module to help you build on scaffolding techniques using yourself, digital and non-digital resources.
Engaging with CLIL – supporting output and interactions
Learning Path
The perfect module to help you implement support strategies that help your learners speak and write about their subjects in English
Engaging with CLIL – teaching vocabulary and adapting materials
Learning Path
Take this module to identify the subject-specific, general academic, or general procedural vocabulary demands in a text or task and adapt your techniques to support learners.
Engaging with CLIL – teaching vocabulary and adapting materials for primary
Learning Path
If you teach primary aged learners, take this module to identify the subject-specific, general academic, or general procedural vocabulary demands in a text or task and adapt your techniques to support learners.
Engaging with core skills – communication, collaboration and citizenship
Learning Path
Take this module to explore ways to critically and meaningfully engage your learners in key global issues.
Engaging with core skills – deep learning
Learning Path
Take this Core Skills module to go through the surface into deep learning, questioning and the cycle of improvement.
Engaging with leadership, management and leadership styles
Learning Path
Dive into this module to explore what makes a great leader and why leadership and management are so important in increasing learning outcomes
Engaging with learning technologies – cyber well-being
Learning Path
Build your understanding of the potential risks in the internet and how to teach your learners to be safer online.
Engaging with learning technologies – digital literacies
Learning Path
Consider the impact on and change in learning due to digital literacies. Take this module to identify new ways to teach traditional skills.
Engaging with learning technologies – school links projects
Learning Path
Develop your understanding of and ideas for collaborative online schools projects. Take this module for practical steps and evaluation tools.
Engaging with learning technologies - tablets in the classroom
Learning Path
This module explores purposeful and pedagogically sound approaches to integrating tablets and apps in the classroom to develop the skills your learners need. By the end you'll understand the benefits of using tablets and how they can be integrated in the classroom, develop classroom activities and understand the issues you need to consider when using tablets in the classroom. You'll also design activities using augmented reality apps and integrate them into your curriculum.
Engaging with motivational activities
Learning Path
Take this module to see how different classroom activities can be energising and motivational for learners.
Engaging with professional development – keeping up to date
Learning Path
Find out how best to keep up to date with developments in teaching and learning and create a professional development portfolio to meet your goals.
Engaging with professional development – peer observation
Learning Path
Visit the advantages of different types of observations and how to give constructive feedback. Take this module and develop your skills either as a teacher or a teacher trainer.
Engaging with professional development – the reflective teacher
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to increase your understanding of reflective practice - the process of thinking about, evaluating, analysing and reviewing what takes place in the classroom.
Engaging with SEN – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for all the learners in your class. Take this module and immediately use your new techniques to make your classes the best they can be.
Engaging with SEN – autism spectrum disorder
Learning Path
Help build a better learning environment for learners with autism spectrum disorders.
Engaging with SEN – dyslexia
Learning Path
Become the best teacher you can be. Start seeing the difference you make for your dyslexic learners in classes straight away.
Engaging with SEN – dyspraxia
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for your learners with dyspraxia. See the difference as you start using the tried and trusted techniques from this module.
Engaging with SEN – gifted and talented learners
Learning Path
Explore the different ways learners are gifted and talented. Take on strategies to help to engage, make them feel valued and give them the appropriate academic challenge.
Engaging with SEN – inclusive assessment approaches
Learning Path
Become an even better teacher. Take this module and make sure you're including everyone for the best results in your classes.
Engaging with SEN – multicultural influences
Learning Path
This module helps you to consider some of the issues around multilingualism and multiculturalism. You learn to equip your learners with the tools they will need to bridge culture divides thus making learning relevant and effective.
Engaging with SEN – social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
Learning Path
This module will look at the special educational needs of learners with SEBD and how these needs impact on learning.
Engaging with SEN - speech and language
Learning Path
Evaluate teaching strategies to include learners with speech and language difficulties in your classroom. Take this module and help learners with speech and language difficulties to acquire new skills.
Engaging with thinking skills in the classroom
Learning Path
Improve your learners' performance. Take this module and immediately start promoting the use of thinking skills in every lesson.
Leadership training – Planning, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing
Learning Path
The aim of this leadership training module is to introduce you to the cycle of planning, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing. This cycle can play an important role in school improvement. The module looks at each stage in the cycle, and at the importance of self-evaluation.
Schools Now! Conference 2020
Learning Path
This is the home of our Schools Now! 2020 conference highlights. The theme of this video content is Developing Global Leaders: Preparing young people for life in school and beyond. There is no certificate issued for watching the videos.
Subject teacher: Engaging with CLIL – task design and implementation for primary
Learning Path
Jump into this module to understand the principles and demands of task design in CLIL. Use these principles to analyse a task and use criteria to evaluate or adapt a text. Also, implement support strategies to make texts accessible to learners using the Cummins' framework to map and, if needed, adjust the difficulty level of a task.
Understanding approaches to inclusive learning
Learning Path
Reflect on diversity in your school and learn how to find out more about your learners and address diversity in the classroom.
Understanding assessment for learning
Learning Path
Help your learners to meet and exceed their learning goals. Take this module and watch as your groups' results improve.
Understanding behaviour management for primary
Learning Path
Manage your primary classroom like an expert. Take this module and maximise the time you and your learners spend together.
Understanding child protection
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to introduce you to the topic of child protection in schools. Investigate issues that can arise and gain some practical tips for best practice in your school.
Understanding classroom interaction for primary
Learning Path
The aim of this module is to examine ways to maximising opportunities for positive interaction with children by the way teachers interact with their learners.
Understanding CLIL – CLIL in practice
Learning Path
Compare CLIL contexts and evaluate your strengths in CLIL. Take this module and draw up a list of techniques that help learners follow English-medium classes and identify how observation can help you.
Understanding CLIL – CLIL in practice for primary
Learning Path
Compare CLIL contexts and evaluate your strengths in CLIL. If you teach primary aged children, take this module and draw up a list of techniques that help learners follow English-medium classes and identify how observation can help you. The lesson examples, videos, etc. are for teaching learners under 12.
Understanding CLIL – guiding input
Learning Path
This module explores teacher and classroom language. How to use it, how to be understood and importantly, how to get you learners reading texts in English.
Understanding CLIL – guiding input for primary
Learning Path
This primary specific module explores teacher and classroom language. How to use it, how to be understood and importantly, how to get you learners reading texts in English.
Understanding lesson management 1
Learning Path
Improve the learning experience for everyone in your classroom. Take this Understanding lesson management module and immediately see your learners responding better to your new techniques.
Understanding lesson management 2
Learning Path
Become an even better teacher as you develop your classroom management skills further with Understanding lesson management 2.
Understanding lesson management 3
Learning Path
Be the best teacher you can be. Continue to develop your classroom management skills to make sure that every lesson is truly effective.
Understanding lesson planning
Learning Path
Produce more effective lesson plans to perform better as a teacher. Complete this module and see the difference when you take your new plans into the classroom.
Understanding motivation in the classroom
Learning Path
Let's recognise the qualities of a motivational teacher and the benefits of having motivated learners in the classroom.
Understanding SEN – visual, hearing, and physical impairment
Learning Path
Make sure you're including learners with visual, hearing and physical impairments and improve the learning environment in your classroom for all.
Understanding special educational needs (SEN)
Learning Path
By the end of the module you'll have a set of teaching strategies which promote inclusive learning and benefit all pupils with special educational needs.
Understanding thinking skills
Learning Path
Help your learners get the most out of your lessons. Take this module and start promoting the use of thinking skills in all your activities.
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