What is learning? How does it work? On this online, self-paced course you try and answer these questions, exploring how you can use the science of learning to inform your teaching and support your students’ learning.Drawing upon educational neuroscience and psychology (and combating neuroscience myths), you will...

Location	Online
Duration	12 Hours
Fees	From £75.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Discover how to save data to use it across multiple runs of your programOn this course, you will learn how to save text and binary files, and how to structure data so that programs can interpret it correctly. You will explore various common types of structured files, including CSV and JSON, and also find out how...

Location	Online
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

During this course you’ll learn what databases are and why we use them, exploring how to use SQL to search and manipulate the data. Along the way, you’ll learn about primary keys and table relationships, as well as how to create joins to search multiple tables. In the final week, you’ll finish by...

Location	Online
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

Learn how data is represented through media; audio, visual and text. This online course explores how computers do interesting things with data. You’ll discover how to represent and manipulate text, images and sound and compression and other algorithms.Due to its section on the representation of images, this...

Location	Online
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

From self-driving cars to determining someone's age, artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained with machine learning (ML) are being used more and more. But what is AI, and what does machine learning actually involve?

Location
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

Online, self-paced course. Participants can join and start this course at any time after the advertised date.This course explores key considerations of running a STEM club in the long term. It focusses on identifying the factors needed to support club progress and developing a club improvement plan that aids student...

Location
Duration	9 Hours
Fees	Free

Online, self-paced course. Participants can join and start this course at any time after the advertised date.This course will take you through the process of planning a school science, technology, engineering or maths club, from developing a proposal and setting objectives, to creating a marketing campaign, developing...

Location
Duration	6 Hours
Fees	Free

Enhance your role as a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) subject teacher by linking curriculum learning to careers. You will identify how to adapt your STEM curriculum, engaging your students in careers linked to their classroom learning. Learn from experienced educators who have adapted...

Location	Online
Duration	12 Hours
Fees	From £75.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Teaching cybersecurity in schools is an important way to help students stay safe while using technology. On this course, teachers will be introduced to the core ideas of cybersecurity that should be taught in the classroom.You will learn the different attacks that individuals and devices are vulnerable to and how to...

Location
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

Discover the history of encryption and learn how it's used in the modern world. On this course, you will learn about what encryption is and understand its use in the past by using the Caesar and Vigenère ciphers. You will also look at the present and future of encryption and investigate both symmetric and...

Location
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

This  3 hour online course supports teachers to keep up to date with all things OFSTED whether you are due an OFSTED visit or need to make some changes after an OFSTED visit. During the session we will look at recent OFSTED publications and explore techniques and pedagogy to develop your school’s science in...

Start date	29 Apr 2024
Location
Fees	From £90.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

We can support you in identifying the CPD support that you need, provide CPD activity directly from our programme of courses, or work with you to tailor the content to meet your requirements.

Start date	29 Apr 2024
Location	Remote delivered CPD
Duration	1 Hour
Fees	From £20.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Free for schools from the Norfolk and Suffolk area only – all other bookings will be cancelled

Start date	29 Apr 2024
Location	Remote delivered CPD
Duration	1 Hour
Fees	Free

How we can start to prepare students for the GCSE (or equivalent) in Design and Technology from the very start of Year 7.There is a £30 Teacher Release Payment available from STEM Learning for maintained schools. Please note that this does not deduct the fee immediately.  You will receive an invoice for the...

Start date	29 Apr 2024
Location
Duration	90 Minutes
Fees	From £75.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Mathematics is firmly embedded at the core of computer science, from processing data using binary to the development of algorithms. The teaching of computing can be more effective when it builds on students’ existing mathematical knowledge and approaches. This provides a more joined-up learning journey.During...

Start date	29 Apr 2024
Location
Duration	5 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00