Teacher Professional Development

Educators from six Smithsonian museums will dive deeply into the objects in their collections to interrogate the stories we know and tell our students. They will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students.

How to build a Catholic Dialogue School in a pluralising and secularising world. The Catholic identity of schools today is being challenged by processes of pluralisation and secularisation. While school communities used to be considered more or less homogeneous, nowadays schools are characterised by increasing diversity and a diminishing [...]

The course aims to provide teachers with information and skills on how they can use Learning Analytics to improve support for their current or next learner groups. They will also get familiar with basic methods, including their analytics literacy, and align their work with ethics and privacy [...]

Learn strategies and techniques for teaching genomics in and outside of the classroom to create enriching learning opportunities. Discover the importance of incorporating genomics into your curriculum. This three-week course from Wellcome Connecting Science will help you understand the benefits of teaching genomics and gain confidence in genomics [...]

Ensure you’re meeting every learner’s needs, including those most at risk of exclusion, by developing inclusive teaching skills. Examine the impact of inclusive pedagogies in primary and secondary education. Inclusive pedagogies can help create a fair and thriving learning environment for every student. On this three-week course, you’ll delve [...]

This course introduces teachers and other educators to the basics of teaching programming with Scratch to students in grades 5-8 using Scratch Encore, a culturally responsive, intermediate computer science curriculum. Each week, participants are introduced to key computer science concepts (e.g., loops, synchronization), and then apply those concepts as [...]

Join other postdocs preparing to transition into their next career step and broaden your skills toward your desired career context. The Postdoc Academy provides skill development for postdocs as they prepare to transition into their next career step. Using inclusive, active-learning approaches, participants will build skills to (1) inform [...]