Teacher CPD Courses for Secondary Schools

Teach the Junior Cycle Coding short course and run its CBA, even if coding is new to you. Choose a programming language, teach beginners with PRIMM, bring in physical computing and AI, judge the CBA against the Features of Quality and plan your year.

Teach the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy short course and run its Student Project. Help students judge sources, spot misinformation and AI-generated content, make their own media and look after their digital wellbeing, and plan your year.

Plan, support and judge the Junior Cycle maths CBAs: the Mathematical Investigation and the Statistical Investigation. Four short lessons on planning back from your SLAR date, helping students without doing the work for them, and judging the work. Comes with a class planner, a student planner and checklist, a card of the guidelines' questions for each stage, a statistics spreadsheet and a SLAR preparation sheet.

Plan, support and judge the Junior Cycle geography CBAs: Geography in the News and My Geography. Four short lessons on planning back from your SLAR date, agreeing each student's event or local topic, getting students past their first source, and judging the work. Comes with a class planner, an inquiry plan and an investigation plan for students, the evaluation and reflection template, a student checklist and a SLAR preparation sheet.

Plan, support and judge the Junior Cycle history CBAs: The Past in My Place and A Life in Time. Four short lessons on planning back from your SLAR date, agreeing each student's subject or person, helping students find and weigh their sources, and judging the work. Comes with a class planner, a research plan for each CBA, the guidelines' reflection note, a student checklist and a SLAR preparation sheet.

Plan, support and judge the Junior Cycle science CBAs: the Extended Experimental Investigation and the Science in Society Investigation. Four short lessons on planning back from your SLAR date, approving a plan without designing it, helping students weigh their sources, and judging the work. Comes with a class planner, the Investigation Plan, an SSI topic check and source log, a student checklist and a SLAR preparation sheet.

Set clear rules for AI in your Transition Year class and teach students to use it well. Find out what students really use, agree a class charter with them, design tasks and assessment that hold up when AI is around, and teach them to question what AI tells them.

Run subject tasters in Transition Year that give students a feel for a senior cycle subject without starting its specification. Four short lessons on where sampling sits in the TY Programme Statement, planning a sampler within your elective time, designing each taster, and a reflection after each one in the TY portfolio. Comes with a sampler planner, a taster plan, cards for Engineering, Applied Graphics and Design, Accounting and Computer Science, a student reflection sheet and a coordinator's checklist.

Teach LCA ICT, the Introduction and the Vocational Specialism, through one real project your students care about. Plan all 13 Key Assignments around it, teach each module with current tools including AI, and leave with a two-year plan.

Teach LCA Mathematical Applications through real bills, budgets and jobs, even if maths is not your main subject. Covers the four modules, the case study behind each Key Assignment and how to verify it, and getting students ready for the written examination.

Teach LCA English and Communications to students who struggle with reading and writing, even if English is not your main subject. Covers reading load, everyday talk, the four modules and seventeen Key Assignments, the portfolio, and the written and oral examinations.

Run the Leaving Certificate Biology in Practice Investigation with a whole class, from the brief to the signed Form P.2. Six short lessons on planning the hours back from the completion date, supporting each stage while the work stays the student's own, supervised experiment sessions, authentication, referencing and AI use. Comes with a class planner, an investigative log, a record of supervised sessions, an AI-use record, a report checklist and an authentication checklist.

Run the Leaving Certificate Business Alive Investigative Study with a whole class, from the brief to the signed Form P.2. Six short lessons on planning the hours back from the completion date, research questions and project plans that stay the student's own, gathering and analysing data, authentication, referencing and AI use. Comes with a class planner, investigative folder pages, a project plan template, a research record, an AI-use record, a report checklist and an authentication checklist.

Run the Leaving Certificate Applied Geography Project with your fifth-year class, from the brief to the signed Form P.2. Six short lessons on the seven stages, inquiry questions and evidence that stay each student's own, fieldwork under your school's policies, authentication, referencing and AI use, and the SEC's sample brief. Comes with a class planner, inquiry log pages, an evidence plan, an evidence record, an AI-use record, a report checklist and an authentication checklist.

Teach Leaving Certificate Computer Science, even if you are not a computer science specialist. Learn Python from your first line of code to the SEC's sample exam question, then cover teaching programming and debugging, the core concepts from data to AI, the Applied Learning Tasks, the coursework project and the written paper, with a plan for fifth year.

Teach the new Leaving Certificate Life, Community and Work and run its four Applied Learning Tasks. Covers the experiential learning cycle, the digital portfolio, the work placement, sensitive topics, and assessment from the Portfolio in Action to the written examination.