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

“Learners do not always learn what we teach. That is why the most important assessment does not happen at the end of learning, it happens during the learning, when there is still time to do something with what you find out.” - Dylan WiliamThis self-paced online course will help you ask better questions and design...

Location	Online
Duration	6 Hours
Fees	From £30.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Marking has been identified as an area of excessive workload for teachers, but feedback is crucial for students to improve their understanding.On this course, you’ll explore evidence-based approaches for using written and oral feedback to support student learning without increasing your workload. You’ll...

Location	Online
Duration	9 Hours
Fees	From £50.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details
Subsidy	From - £0.00

There are only so many ways a student can look at an onion cell, so how do we engage students with biology practicals? It is essential that students studying biology are given the opportunity to practice and embed understanding of practical skills in preparation for assessment of their learning.In this course, you...

Location	Online
Duration	8 Hours
Fees	From £50.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Go beyond ‘recipe following’ and use practical work in physics to support explanation of theory.This course allows you to explore the relationship between theoretical concepts and practical work.  You’ll develop and share creative ways of teaching practical physics with approaches that are...

Location	Online
Duration	9 Hours
Fees	From £50.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Go beyond ‘recipe following’ and use practical work in chemistry to support explanation of theory. It is essential that students studying chemistry are given the opportunity to practice and embed understanding of practical skills in preparation for the assessment of their learning. This online course...

Location	Online
Duration	9 Hours
Fees	From £50.00 + 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

 This is the first instance of this event we are running and the day will be a celebration of women and diversity in science education.  In an attempt to redress the gender balance, speakers and workshop hosts will all be female, although the conference can be attended by all genders. The conference is free...

Start date	18 May 2024
Location	Harwell Oxford
Duration	1 Day
Fees	Free

This course is for ECTs and Non-Physics Specialist teachers who are teaching Physics GCSE. In this course we will look at the key topics, identify common misconceptions and how to address these, share helpful resources and teaching strategies through modelling the best Physics specific pedagogy. You will go away more...

Start date	21 May 2024
Location	Luton
Fees	From £250.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

Welding skills is the fourth part of a modular course focusing on developing practical skills. These skills are required by teachers and technicians for the successful delivery of metalworking craft activities and aspects of the SQA practical metalworking course.This two day course will involve learning how to safely...

Start date	22 May 2024
Location	Dunfermline
Duration	2 Days
Fees	From £420.00 . Fees can vary, see page for more details
Subsidy	From - £320.00

For attendees from the Noel-Baker Academy only. All other bookings will be cancelled.

Start date	23 May 2024
Location	Derby
Duration	60 Minutes
Fees	Free

Secondary science teachers and non-subject specialist staff often have to teach parts of the curriculum which include sex and reproduction at KS3. Current practice often enforces the idea of a gender binary and uses very narrow human examples where gendered terms and sex terms can become confused. It also often serves...

Start date	03 Jun 2024
Location
Duration	90 Minutes
Fees	From £320.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

This is an intense 2 day course for those who are teaching KS5 Biology for the first time, and for those who are looking for some new ideas to tackle the most common misconceptions and to achieve the best student outcomes. Over the multiple sessions you will focus on the core topics, common misconceptions and how to...

Start date	04 Jun 2024
Location	Bishop's Stortford
Fees	From £400.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details

This course is designed to equip school and college-based technicians with the skills to become an effective facilitator of subject specific CPD. It explores what makes CPD effective and how its impact can be evaluated as well as providing new facilitators with the strategies and tools they need when leading learning...

Start date	05 Jun 2024
Location	York
Duration	2 Days
Fees	From £710.00 + VAT. Fees can vary, see page for more details
Subsidy	From - £340.00