Professional development opportunities - Futurelearn

I have plugged this website before. Futurelearn is a fantastic platform for professional development. It was founded by The Open University in the UK as a way to bring 21st century learning to life. It runs fantastic courses, and programmes by Universities across the world and organizations like British Council. You can take these courses for free (upgrade is possible for a small fee), and learn about many subject areas in depth. Courses use quizzes, video lectures, discussions, articles, tasks, and projects to help you gain skills. I really cannot recommend it enough!

In the teaching section there are some insightful courses coming up.

Understanding Autism by the University of Kent: I have taken this course before and I thoroughly recommend it. It has brilliant lecturers, great resources and you learn a lot in a short amount of time. It can really help you to understand the learner psychology of autistic students. It helped me to develop effective strategies, remove obstacles for learning, and help students engage with learning.

Dyslexia and foreign language teaching by Lancaster University: This course will again look at another common issue for learners. Learners with dyslexia often find language acquisition challenging and too often they can be written off or hindered by teachers who either mean well but don't understand or teachers who give up. This course will help teachers to understand dyslexic learners, and explore how we can overcome this challenge. As a dyslexic who speaks 3 languages I can assure you there are ways ;)

Teaching for success: teachers and teaching, learners and learning by British Council: These are 2 courses. I recently completed the first and found it contained some useful activities although I would say this is aimed more at newer teachers. I will undertake the second as I am sure it has lots of great activities, insights, and strategies to better help learners.

Managing behaviour for learning by National STEM institute: This course was amazing. Even if you don't teach STEM classes the learning is very transferable. It uses fantastic scenarios, the ins and outs of learner psychology, tricks and tips, and many research and practice opportunities.

For more information see this link: Futurelearn teaching courses