Online CPD for teachers
Online courses allow you to learn wherever and whenever alongside your teaching. You'll be supported by experienced educators to use our online courses to meet your development needs and help you maximise your students' learning. You'll access real classroom footage, discuss lessons with colleagues from around the world, and learn from leading experts in their respective fields.
Our online courses are delivered by STEM Learning and hosted by FutureLearn.
Explore the options for early career, teaching and leadership at https://www.stem.org.uk/online-cpd
In addition to the existing offer, our SLP is currently working with STEM on plans for a number of NEW online CPD sessions next term, to be delivered in real time by our expert STEM facilitators. Please keep your eyes on our Twitter feed @SET_Science for more info on how to access this.
Bespoke Online CPD & Support from the SLP
We continue to offer bespoke support to schools, either via online bespoke CPD sessions, or through mentoring. Please get in touch to discuss how we can best plan this as an online solution for your school – our facilitators can offer synchrous and asynchrous online options over a number of different platforms, e.g. Google Meet, Facebook Live, Microsoft Teams, Zoom.
If you have currently had any SLP training suspended due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, it might be possible to rearrange the session as online CPD for your staff.
Please contact e.emmerton@setsa.info for more information on next steps.
Additional webchat support from STEM Learning
Do you have questions that need answering? STEM Learning’s subject experts are available weekdays from 8:30am to 4.30pm via webchat, which you can find at the bottom right hand corner of every page on the STEM website http://stem.org.uk
STEM Learning online resources
Open-access science, technology, engineering and mathematics resources for teachers, parents and carers to support home learning: www.stem.org.uk/home-learning
In response to the school closures across the UK, STEM Learning has launched a collection of high-quality, free resources to help teachers and families continue to support children and young people’s learning from home.
The resources have been curated by our specialist team of experienced subject teachers, and cover all age ranges from 4 to 18. The science, technology, maths and computing resources will support primary, secondary and post-16 teachers to work with their students who are away from school, while the family section offers fun, quick and easy practical activities for parents and carers supporting their children’s learning at home. All activities are free to access and have answer sheets where needed. More resources will be added every week.
STEM@Home - The local STEM Hub based at Canterbury Christchurch University has curated a range of resources for primary and secondary science. The first theme Is SPACE! followed by DINOSAURS! after the spring break. Designed to support people caring for children at home as well as teachers: https://thestemhub.org.uk/index.php/stem-at-home
Resources from other providers
KS1 & KS2 free STEM resources from the IET: Home learning teaching resources and activities for 5-11 years old (Key Stage 1 and 2) including lesson plans, handouts and videos: https://education.theiet.org/key-stage-1-2-3-and-4-free-stem-resources/home-learning-resources-key-stage-1-and-2/
The Field Studies Council have teamed up with Encounter Edu to deliver Fieldwork Live. They have produced resource packs for teachers & will be running live interactive fieldwork sessions for pupils at primary, KS3 & GCSE: https://encounteredu.com/live-lessons/fsc-fieldworklive-2020
Useful site for GCSE science videos and other resources: https://freesciencelessons.co.uk
Virtual Experiments has been set up by Reading University - these are multi-dimensional nonlinear movies of real experiments & many are suitable for use in a secondary environment, e.g. reflection & refraction, photosynthesis, transpiration: https://www.reading.ac.uk/virtualexperiments/
Developed by the University of Bristol, "Let's Dissect" is a brand new teaching resource of tutorials and videos for secondary schools: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/elearn/lets-dissect/
MyScope Explore: A virtual electron microscope simulator: http://myscope-explore.org/
OpenScience Laboratory: this great initiative features investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data: https://learn5.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2
The Zooniverse: the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research, from University of Oxford. Lots on there to explore! https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
Get in touch with the SLP
SLP Lead: David Struthers d.struthers@setsa.info
SLP Project Officer: Emma Emmerton e.emmerton@setsa.info
If you would prefer to have a telephone conversation, please send a single line email with your telephone number and we will call you back at a convenient time.
Find us on Twitter!
A number of useful distance learning support links are currently being retweeted through our Twitter feed to support teachers and parents with remote learning/CPD: https://twitter.com/SET_Science
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