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

Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm based on objects and data rather than actions and logic. This online course will introduce you to the principles of object-oriented programming in Python, showing you how to create objects, functions, methods, and classes. You’ll use what you learn...

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

On this course, you’ll gain an understanding of how computers work at a fundamental level. You’ll explore system architecture, along with how computers use binary and logic. Once you’ve examined the von Neumann model of computer architecture and the Fetch-Execute cycle, you’ll learn to...

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

On this course, you’ll explore programming in Python. You’ll discover basic programming concepts, learning how to understand the basics of python syntax and interpret error messages.Ultimately, you’ll use your new coding skills to create your first program - which will be able to solve a simple...

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

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 learn...

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

As a teacher who wants to promote the learning of your pupils, you'll want to make evidence-informed judgements and apply a range of approaches to respond and adapt teaching during and in between lessons.  Experts in assessment for learning, Emeritus Professor Dylan Wiliam, Dr Chris Harrison and Andrea Mapplebeck...

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

In this course, Professor Chris Harrison explains that good teaching is not about individual tuition for 30 students in a class. It’s about making use of good diagnostic assessment and then making a decision about what you need to do over the next few lessons to ensure that all students are challenged in their...

Location	Online
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	From £75.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details
Subsidy	From - £0.00

In this short course you will explore how to use informal lesson observations to help improve teaching and learning in a more proactive way and rethink the approach into a more beneficial experience for everyone. 

Location	Online
Duration	90 Minutes
Fees	From £30.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details
Subsidy	From - £0.00

As you progress beyond the basics of Python programming, this course will help you develop the level of programming skill required for upto GCSE computer science. You’ll go further through the fundamentals of programming, with lots of hands-on experience under the guidance of highly successful teachers of...

Start date	22 May 2024
Location	Remote Delivered CPD
Duration	5 Hours
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

This course is for teachers and other educational consultants who are undertaking Stage 1 of the Professional Development Leader Development Programme and who wish to become accredited with CPD Quality MarkYou should have completed FD101 and FD102 before completing this course.This course looks at what can help...

Start date	22 May 2024
Location	Remote Delivered CPD
Duration	3 Hours
Fees	Free

Teaching Tricky Topics: Learn, Share and Take away ideas on how to teach the topics that students struggle with the most. (KS3 and 4)Each session will have the following format on a selected topic -Open forum (10 mins)What do they struggle with?What are the common misconceptions?Your prepared input (15 mins?)Ideas on...

Start date	22 May 2024
Location	Remote Delivered CPD
Duration	45 Minutes
Fees	Free

Start date	23 May 2024
Location	York
Duration	1 Day
Fees	Free

This short course will support you prepare for completing the Computer Science Accelerator (CSA) programme, which will lead to you achieving a national certificate in computer science subject knowledge. By attending this course, you’ll gain support from an experienced Professional Development Leader, who will be...

Start date	23 May 2024
Location	Remote Delivered CPD
Duration	90 Minutes
Fees	Free
Subsidy	Computing Subsidy up to - £0.00

For KS1 – KS5 teachers from S T E M , computer science and careers subjectsCome and find out who STEM Ambassador volunteers are and how they can support your school and students.  This short virtual session is run by the North West STEM Ambassador Partner, STEMFirst and you will:Meet 3 STEM Ambassadors and...

Start date	23 May 2024
Location
Duration	45 Minutes
Fees	Free