Teacher CPD Courses for Secondary Schools

This CPD equips teachers to deliver the Junior Cycle Coding Short Course with confidence. Participants map the three strands and single CBA, adopt PRIMM and explicit debugging pedagogy, integrate AI and ethics content, learn to coach and assess the CBA, and build a recruitment pipeline from JC Coding into Leaving Certificate Computer Science.

This CPD equips teachers to deliver the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy Short Course with confidence. It covers the NCCA specification, the four strands, critical evaluation of misinformation, AI-generated content and algorithmic bias, practical digital production, identity and digital wellbeing, and full coaching and assessment of the single Student Project CBA.

This CPD equips teachers to lead AI education in Transition Year. It covers building a Lead Learner mindset, mapping real student AI use, creating a classroom AI policy and signed Class Charter, designing AI-robust tasks, AI-aware assessment, teaching critical literacy around hallucination and bias, and producing a full TY year plan with cross-subject links.

This CPD equips teachers to deliver the full LCA ICT programme by building a Lead Learner mindset, designing a year-long “Something Real” project that generates all 13 Key Assignments, and planning creator-focused sequences for ICT1, ICT2 and the four Vocational Specialism modules using modern tools and AI. Participants leave with a concrete two-year timetable, supervision routines, SEC portfolio strategies and cross-curricular integration plans tailored to at-risk and disengaged learners.

This CPD equips teachers to deliver Leaving Certificate Computer Science with confidence. It covers the full LCCS specification, Lead Learner mindset, PRIMM pedagogy, explicit debugging, mental-model teaching of networks and data representation, ALT design, coursework project supervision, and written paper strategies.

This CPD equips teachers to deliver Leaving Certificate Life, Community and Work by mapping the full NCCA specification, its experiential learning cycle, four Applied Learning Tasks, digital portfolio, and 60/40 assessment model. Participants develop the lead-learner mindset, supervision practices, sensitive-topic protocols, and a personalised two-year delivery plan with calibrated assessment judgement.