Teacher CPD Courses for Secondary Schools

This CPD equips teachers to deliver the Junior Cycle Coding Short Course with confidence. It covers the three strands, language pathways, PRIMM pedagogy, physical computing, AI from assistants to agents, ethics, the single CBA process from supervision to SLAR moderation, and building a recruitment pipeline into Leaving Certificate Computer Science while addressing the gender gap.

This CPD equips teachers to deliver the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy Short Course with confidence. It covers the four strands, AI-generated content detection, production pedagogy, digital wellbeing and identity, coaching the single Student Project using Features of Quality, cross-curricular links, and practical year planning.

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 three-strand specification, Lead Learner mindset, computational thinking pedagogy including PRIMM and explicit debugging, core concepts from data representation to AI, Applied Learning Tasks, coursework project supervision and marking, and written paper strategies, enabling you to build a sustainable two-year programme and support student success in both assessment components.

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.