Online CPD during closure

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Hi! Does anyone know of any free / low cost online CPD we could direct staff to in case of closure?
We are particularly thinking about our TAs. Our teaching staff will have some elements of work to do and be ‘digitally present’ but this won’t be the same for TAs.

We’d love to find any online CPD / training but Google is proving a little useless.
Any ideas? Thanks

I think Pacey just launched something, worth having a look. It may just be for early years (my area).

Following for ideas...great idea for a thread OP. I know the OU do a few free courses, haven't yet looked to see what is relevant.

Someone on another thread recommended Future Learn.
Am going to look that up alongside Pacey - thank you!

FutureLearn has loads of education courses.

Could be useful for all staff. Increase knowledge of areas covered in schools

www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/?fbclid=IwAR1WZVexVLod-fmhwELN4qt9E7ieXEQA9dGAMODi4shEUt25u8Q6oZKBDs8

I hope you direct this at non-teaching staff. Teachers will have enough to do, with being expected to be available during their normal working hours, (and preparing materials for students) as it is.

Thank you for some more ideas.
mineofuselessinformation - yes we want to direct this at our TAs and some of our admin team. I did mention that in my OP.

In terms of our teachers- we are only going to ask that they check messages twice a day. We’ll advise parents that response times will be at two set points of the day. The rest of the time we are trusting our teachers to direct themselves as they need to. We’ve set up home learning portals, given training on these, made sure all staff have working laptops and cloud storage. Most teachers have new curriculum design work they could do as well. And we’ve rushed out report formats so those can be done too if needed. But, they’re professionals, some with families themselves and I trust them to do as they need to.

Our TAs and support team don’t have that kind of work to be doing so we were interested in offering CPD if we could. Even paying for it if needed. We’ll be saving the money from all the photocopying and glue sticks!

Reach out CPD is great for boosting science knowledge - organised by both year group and topic so they could do that if they support in any science lessons?
Other than that, our TAs will be asked to plan and resource for upcoming intervention groups they have I think

Future learn have a really good set of course courses.

www.futurelearn.com/courses?filter_category=18&filter_course_type=open&filter_availability=started&all_courses=1

Some are focused towards TAs. www.futurelearn.com/courses/supporting-learning-primary

But there are loads that they can choose from to increase their maths, phonics, science etc....

They don’t need to stick to just the teaching selection, loads of interesting courses.

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Open University has a lot of free online courses linked to education

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