Professional Development for Teachers Courses

Develop your teaching skills with flexible continuing professional development (CPD) courses for teachers.
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Courses 23 Courses

Learn new skills, pursue your interests or advance your career with our short online courses.

National STEM Learning Centre

Maths Subject Knowledge: Understanding Numbers

Learn how numbers really work by understanding the underlying structures of everyday maths with this course for teachers.
4 weeks
3 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
Raspberry Pi Foundation

Programming 101: An Introduction to Python for Educators

Explore the basics of Python. Guided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, you’ll learn to code your first program. Supported by Google.
4 weeks
2 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
ABRSM

Becoming a Better Music Teacher

Improve your teaching strategies and skills as a music teacher or vocal coach and learn how to inspire your music students
5 weeks
3 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
Queensland University of Technology

Child Protection for Teachers

Feel empowered to protect your students by identifying and reporting signs of child abuse and neglect.
2 weeks
1 hr per week
Included in Unlimited
Raspberry Pi Foundation

Creating an Inclusive Classroom: Approaches to Supporting Learners with SEND in Computing

Explore ways to make your computing lessons more inclusive for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.
2 weeks
2 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
National STEM Learning Centre

Teaching Primary Science: Human Spaceflight

Learn how to use the topic of human spaceflight to excite and engage your pupils across the primary science curriculum.
3 weeks
3 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited

Part of a degree

Deakin University

Transforming Digital Learning: Learning Design Meets Service Design

Bring powerful digital learning into your professional practice. Explore current issues and emerging trends in the field.
2 weeks
3 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
The University of Kent

Understanding Autism

Understand more about autism, including diagnosis, the autistic spectrum, and life with autism with this CPD-certified course.
4 weeks
3 hrs per week
Included in Unlimited
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Microcredentials 1 Microcredential

Our online microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. You can earn academic credit to use towards a degree or they can be used as an independent certification. Each microcredential includes a formal online assessment and meets the standards set by the Common Microcredential Framework (CMF).

The Open University

Teacher Training: Embedding Mental Health in the Curriculum

Develop skills to design inclusive teaching, learning and assessment activities that enhance student mental health and wellbeing.
1 course
10 weeks
Undergraduate
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Degrees 1 Degree

Discover online degrees from leading universities. Develop your knowledge with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

The Open University

Online and Distance Education

Gain hands-on experience of e-learning technologies & build your skills in digital learning, teaching & training. This postgraduate certificate is awarded on completion of the OU’s module Technology-enhanced Learning: Foundations and Futures.
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Professional Development for Early Career Teachers

Keep your teaching skills and knowledge up to date

Teaching is a demanding profession, finding time to complete continuing professional development (CPD) can be difficult. FutureLearn courses are broken down into bite-sized steps, so you can fit your studies around your teaching schedule. Whether you want to explore new pedagogical theories, find inspiration for lesson planning, or learn how to teach a new subject, these CPD teaching courses can help you grow your teaching skills and excel as a teacher.

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