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How to Succeed as a Newly Qualified Teacher (FutureLearn)

Learn management strategies and skills to support yourself as a newly qualified teacher in your first teaching post and beyond. Prepare yourself for the challenges and opportunities of life as a new teacher. Designed by educational experts at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Education, this course will support you [...]

Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice (edX)

This course aims to introduce teachers to the concept of service-learning, and to equip them with the pedagogical knowledge and skills for planning and executing a service-learning programme to their students.

Unlocking The Creative Brain: Develop and Teach Skills For Creative Thinking (FutureLearn)

Explore the neuroscientific principles underpinning creativity, and learn the scientific methods to foster creative classrooms. Discover the neuroscience of creativity. Creativity is an extremely important skill but it can be difficult to explain and to teach others. There is a science to it though, and we can link research [...]

Becoming a Student Assistant: Teaching and Mentoring (FutureLearn)

Learn how to be professionally involved in teaching, support and governing of higher education institutions. Student assistants are valuable staff members at the University of Groningen. Currently, over 700 students take up teaching duties, support role functions, governing positions, and many other responsibilities. But, how to prepare for a [...]

Teaching for Critical Action: Empowering Students in Challenging Times (edX)

In five weeks, we explore some of the major challenges, approaches and strategies for addressing pressing, complex socio-environmental issues in the classroom, using critical action as a pedagogical perspective. Optionally, you will be able to collaborate with peers from around the world to design actual critical action [...]

Preparing for Teaching (FutureLearn)

Prepare for a career in teaching by learning the qualities of a good teacher and reflecting on your own experiences of education. Discover the world of teaching and learn how to be a good teacher. A great teacher can totally transform a subject and inspire a classroom of students [...]

Our Solar System and Beyond: Teaching Primary Science (FutureLearn)

Improve your knowledge of space science to help you deliver primary science lessons that are out of this world. Understanding the Solar System and how to teach it can be a tricky business. Fortunately astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich are here to help. In this online course, they’ll [...]

Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning (edX)

Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information. Fake news and misinformation pose an urgent challenge to citizens across the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people’s difficulty in distinguishing truth from fiction, reliable information from [...]

Learn to Teach an Amazing Skillshare Class (Skillshare)

Have you thought about teaching a class on Skillshare but don’t know where to start? In this 20-minute class, Skillshare Community Manager Danielle Keita will walk you through the process of choosing a great topic for your Skillshare class, crafting an engaging project assignment, and outlining your video [...]

Study Abroad USA: Building Capacity for US Institutions (edX)

Learn how to build and grow a study abroad program at your US institution of higher education. Want to increase your educational institution’s study abroad efforts? Whether you work for a community college, a large, small, public or private university, or any other type of higher education institution in [...]