National STEM Learning Centre Courses

Volunteering in the Classroom: Adapting Resources for STEM Activities

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Start your volunteering and learn how to make STEM activities relevant to a diverse range of young people.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introducing Assessment for Learning

Improve your students’ understanding and outcomes by developing your teaching and embedding formative practices in your classroom.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Volunteering in the Classroom: Planning and Organising Practical STEM Activities

Learn how to plan and design effective STEM activities that engage young people through your volunteering.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Volunteering in the Classroom: Communication Skills for STEM Volunteers

Improve your communication skills when presenting STEM activities and volunteering with young people.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Volunteering in the Classroom: Feedback, Reviewing and Improving STEM Activities

Learn how to obtain and use feedback to help you improve your volunteering and STEM activities with young people.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Practical Science: Biology

Develop practical lessons to help 14-16 year old students understand biology with this CPD for science teachers.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Practical Science: Chemistry

Discover approaches to engage 14-16 year old students through practical lessons in chemistry with this CPD for science teachers.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Practical Science: Physics

Participate in CPD to enhance your physics lessons with effective practical work for 14-16 year olds.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Assessment for Learning: Formative Assessment in Science and Maths Teaching

Create a formative classroom and transform your students’ learning Learn to use evidence-based approaches to formative assessment to develop your responsiveness and improve your teaching skills.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours worth of material, 11 weeks long
• Paid Course

Microcredential

Teaching Practical Science: Progress Student Learning Through Hands-On Science

Discover how practical work improves student learning across science subjects Discover how to engage students aged 14-16 in science, using hands-on experiments in this three-part CPD ExpertTrack for teachers.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours worth of material, 9 weeks long
• Paid Course

Microcredential

Volunteering in the Classroom: Bringing STEM Industry into Schools

Plan engaging STEM activities and develop your classroom communication skills Develop your effectiveness as an industry volunteer to champion STEM subjects and inspire young people with STEM careers.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• Paid Course

Teaching for Home Learning: Secondary Science

Ease the transition to teaching science to secondary pupils during the COVID-19 pandemic with online and offline approaches.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• 12th Apr, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching for Home Learning: Primary Science

Learn teaching strategies and tools to make the transition to online primary science teaching easier during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 2 weeks long
• 26th Apr, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Climate Change

Learn how to teach climate change to students aged 11-14 years old and engage them with the ESA Climate Detectives project.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• 9th May, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Teaching Computing

Enhance your practice and subject knowledge as a primary or secondary school teacher of Computing.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• 16th Apr, 2018
• Free Online Course (Audit)