CPD at Home

The below are Free CPD courses to do online 

Teaching and learning 

• Flipped instruction with power point reader 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/8ebc6daf/overview  

 

• Personalised learning 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/1d31d252/overview  

 

• Take your teaching online 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/take-your-teaching-online/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab  

 

• Succeed with learning  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/succeed-learning/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab  

 

• Teaching and learning tricky topics 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning/teaching-and-learning-tricky-topics/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Learning how to learn 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning-how-learn/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Using visualisation in maths teaching 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/using-visualisation-maths-teaching/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Dance Skills 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/dance-skills/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Learning to teach: become a reflective practitioner 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning-teach-becoming-reflective-practitioner/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Understand language and learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/understanding-language-and-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Learning to teach: An introduction into classroom research 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning-teach-introduction-classroom-research/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Learning to teach: Making sense of learning to teach 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning-teach-making-sense-learning-teach/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Secondary learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/secondary-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching secondary modern foreign languages 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/teaching-secondary-modern-foreign-languages/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching secondary mathematics  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/mathematics-education/teaching-secondary-mathematics/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching secondary science 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/teaching-secondary-science/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching secondary music 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/teaching-secondary-music/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching secondary geography  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/teaching-secondary-geography/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Learning and practice: Agency and identities  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/learning-and-practice-agency-and-identities/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Using film music in the classroom 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/using-film-music-the-classroom/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• School geography: exploring a definition 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/school-geography-exploring-definition/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Geography in education: exploring a definition 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/geography-education-exploring-definition/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Language as a medium for teaching and learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/language-medium-teaching-and-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

technology

• Transform learning with Microsoft Teams 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/9c9f5c11/overview  

 

• Microsoft Teams course 1- All about teams 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/33c55451/overview  

 

• Microsoft Teams course 2- Let’s share 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/5c25b867/overviewn  

 

• Microsoft Teams course 3- Working with students  

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/b085b46d/overview  

 

• Microsoft Teams course 4- Assignments and feedback  

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/b085b46d/overview  

 

• Microsoft Teams course 5- Notebook 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/cd7e6d9e/overview  

 

• Childhood in the digital age 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-the-digital-age/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab  

 

• Assistive technologies and online learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/assistive-technologies-and-online-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching using digital videos on secondary schools 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-technology/teaching-using-digital-video-secondary-schools/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

curriculum

• Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/assessment-secondary-modern-foreign-languages/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Assessment in secondary mathematics 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/mathematics-education/assessment-secondary-mathematics/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Assessment in secondary science 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/assessment-secondary-science/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Assessment in secondary music 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/assessment-secondary-music/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Assessment in secondary geography  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/assessment-secondary-geography/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• A global dimension to science education in schools 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/global-dimension-science-education-schools/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Why teach art? 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/global-dimension-science-education-schools/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

SEND

• Understanding Dyslexia 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/understanding-dyslexia/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• What children’s perspectives tell us about inclusion 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/what-childrens-perspectives-tell-us-about-inclusion/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Dyslexia Awareness 

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/30a7b5e8/overview  

 

• Interactive instructional tools for inclusive classrooms  

https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/b42849cc/overview  

safeguarding

• Keeping them safe: Sexual exploitation 

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/keep-them-safe 

 

• Introduction into safeguarding 

https://prosperoteaching.com/free-accredited-online-safeguarding/ 

 

• Keeping them safe 

https://paceuk.info/training/keep-them-safe/ 

 

• Female Genital mutilation 

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/recognising-and-preventing-fgm 

 

• Prevent training 

https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk/edu/screen1.html  

 

• Caring for vulnerable children  

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/vulnerable-children 

 

Please note you can also sign up to Bromley MeLearning University and complete a range of online courses around Child and Adult Safeguarding including safeguarding children with SEN, Domestic Violence etc. To access please click here and register (it may take up to 5 days to have your registration approved).  

 

Staff reading 

• Looking globally: The future of education 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/looking-globally-the-future-education/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teachers sharing resources online 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/teachers-sharing-resources-online/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Thinking about how I work with other professionals  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education-careers/thinking-about-how-i-work-other-professionals/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Engaging with education research 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/engaging-educational-research/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Exploring equality and equity in education 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/exploring-equality-and-equity-education/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• What is language? An applied linguistic perspective  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/what-language-applied-linguistic-perspective/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/literacy-social-justice-and-inclusive-practice/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Developing good academic practice 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/developing-good-academic-practice/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Evaluating school classroom discussion 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/evaluating-school-classroom-discussion/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

wellbeing

• Making sense of mental health problems 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-youth/introduction-child-psychology/content-section-0?active-tab=content-tab 

 

• Making sense of ourselves  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/making-sense-ourselves/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

student development

• Introduction to child Psychology 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/childhood-youth/introduction-child-psychology/content-section-0?active-tab=content-tab  

 

• Working with young people: roles and responsibilities  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education-careers/working-young-people-roles-and-responsibilities/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Play, learning and the brain 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/educational-technology-and-practice/educational-practice/play-learning-and-the-brain/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Involving the family in supporting pupils’ literacy learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education/involving-the-family-supporting-pupils-literacy-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

leadership

• Leadership and followership 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning/leadership-and-followership/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Exploring sport coaching and psychology 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/exploring-sport-coaching-and-psychology/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• The interplay between leading and learning 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/the-interplay-between-leading-and-learning/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• The ‘why’ and ‘what’ of educational leadership and management  

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education-careers/the-why-and-what-educational-leadership-and-management/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Exploring educational leadership 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/exploring-educational-leadership/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Leadership and context 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/leadership-and-context/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Leadership: external context and culture 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/leadership-external-context-and-culture/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

staff development

• Learning to teach: Mentoring and tutoring student teachers 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning-teach-mentoring-and-tutoring-student-teachers/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

support staff

• School business manager: developing the role 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/school-business-manager-developing-the-role/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab  

 

• Encouraging book talk in the school library 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/encouraging-book-talk-the-school-library/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

bfl

• Professional relationships with young people 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/professional-relationships-young-people/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab 

 

• Teaching for good behaviour 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/education-careers/teaching-good-behaviour/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

 

other forms of cpd:

Podcasts- On your phone or on the internet 

• Teacher toolkit- https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/category/podcasts/  
• Cult of pedagogy- https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pod/  
• The talking teachers podcast- https://thetalkingteachers.podbean.com/  

 

SSAT- log in/sign up with EPH account 

https://www.ssatuk.co.uk/the-exchange/library/ssat-journal/