Online CPD for secondary and post-16 teachers
Learn wherever and whenever suits you. Build subject knowledge, access real classroom footage and reflect to improve your teaching practice and maximise your students' learning. Please note you can enrol onto a course after the start date and you'll have access for 12 months.
If you'd like to discuss a bulk purchase of online courses please contact onlinecpd@stem.org.uk.
Pedagogical courses
Develop your use of hinge point questions and other diagnostic activities to elicit students' misconceptions.
Apply a range of approaches to gather evidence of student learning, rather than performance, and adapt teaching during and in between lessons.
Develop your approach to managing behaviour by building trust and positive relationships with students.
Improve the way you support your students to achieve their potential by exploring the science of learning.
Explore evidence-based approaches for using written and oral feedback to support students' learning without increasing your workload.
Explore how to use informal lesson observations to help improve teaching and learning to create a more beneficial experience for everyone.
Examine key strategies for formative assessment to evidence the development of students’ inquiry competences and skills.
Identify misconceptions your students may have in Science and demonstrate practical approaches you can use.
Consider the features of effective practical work and explore a range of tools to support planning workshops and a practical work audit.
Explore how to use collaborative curriculum planning to help improve teaching and learning.
Learn about responsive teaching; how to make use of diagnostic assessment and ensure all students are challenged in their learning.
Explore how to analyse both internal and external examination data to improve student performance.
Discover how to support your students to implement effective revision strategies to avoid exam anxiety and low outcomes.
Students often struggle to write longer answer questions in science. Explore a range of strategies to support them to answer 6-mark questions.
Explore teaching strategies to integrate into schemes of learning or lesson planning from the start of the year to better prepare students for examinations.
Secondary teaching courses
This package will help you develop your skills, knowledge and understanding around different aspects of preparing students for GCSE science exams.
Identify how to adapt your STEM curriculum, engaging your students in careers linked to their classroom learning.
Discover the key components of a strong secondary school science curriculum.
Explore the relationship between theory and practical work, and think about what students are learning through practical work.
Go beyond ‘recipe following’ and use practical work in chemistry to support explanation of theory.
Develop and share creative ways of teaching practical physics with approaches that are applicable to a range of curricula.
From managing behaviour and fostering positive attitudes, to implementing departmental processes and working with colleagues.
Explore approaches to teaching biology based upon sound pedagogy and share your experience in the classroom with others.
Courses for supporting learners with SEND
Explore a range of practical strategies to support autistic learners in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Explore a range of practical strategies to support learners with ADHD in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Explore a range of practical strategies to support dyslexic learners in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Explore a range of practical strategies to support sight impaired learners in science and understand their barriers to learning.
Top tips to getting the most out of our online courses
Set clear development goals
At the start of the course you should think about your current practice and where you may wish to develop
Set a clear and achievable development goal, both for yourself, and if you are working as a group, for your team or department
Allocate some time each week
Work with colleagues online and offline
Make sure to share practice and challenge ideas with other learners
Actively contribute to the course by writing comments and contributing to discussions
Try out the new approaches and report back on your successes and ideas for improvement
Use the self-audit tasks, discussions, and reflection grids to help you keep a record of your learning
Last but not least, just enjoy learning and get the most out of the course as you possibly can
