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Develop an evidence-informed approach to education recovery over a sustained period, securing the computing education of young people following a period of great disruption.
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Following on from CP502 (which is a pre-requisite to this course) this PDE covers Linked Lists, Graphs, Trees and Binary Search Trees. Gain further confidence in teaching the data structures content in the A-level specification including attempting and marking exam questions.
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An introduction to A level computer science for those new to teaching the subject or who want to improve their subject knowledge.
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Explore the role of generative AI and its applications within the Key Stage 3 Teach Computing Curriculum. You'll learn about the fundamentals of AI and investigate various platforms to support your teaching.
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What assembly language is? We will cover, how to utilise the Little Man Computer platform to demonstrate assembly language.
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For Key Stage 3 computing teachers who are new or existing to the subject. This CPD covers the key formative and assessment strategies needed in key stage 3 and beyond, including strategies relating to programming.
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Effective teaching is underpinned by the accurate use of assessment strategies, during this course you’ll explore formative and summative assessment strategies whilst understanding how to accurately assess computing.
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For secondary teachers who are new or existing to the subject. This CPD covers generic behavior for learning strategies, including managing own behaviours, rules routines, recognition reward and interventions and links them it back to their use in a computing environment.
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This online course will help you understand Boolean logic. Look at how to use Boolean simplification to help you and students with programming.
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Engage students and build awareness of the collaborative nature of programming in the real world, through evidence-based teaching approaches.
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Find out how to use the Computing Quality Framework to support your secondary school’s needs and drive a high-quality computing education.
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Explore ways to make your computing lessons more inclusive for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.
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Lead students through the full digital media project life-cycle, in engaging projects suitable for KS3 and KS4 computing.
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During this course you'll explore the amazing various data structures are use to organise and store data. Come and learn about the data structures and support your students.
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An introduction to databases for A-level teachers. Gain confidence in teaching the databases content in the A-level specification including attempting and marking exam questions.
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Develop the required technical skills and teaching approaches for data-rich IT projects in computing.
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During this two day residential, you'll explore the characteristics of being a successful leader of computing.
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Learn how to use quality-assured, free subject knowledge tests for diagnostic assessment of students of computer science GCSE.
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Explore what digital literacy is and how digital literacy can be embedded across the curriculum. Understand the importance of ensuring all students are digitally literate and how to raise the profile of digital in the curriculum. Understand how being digitally literate can support the transition between key stage 2 and 3.
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Explore what effective transition looks like in computing. Consider some of the barriers to effective transition, and how to overcomes these. Explore how a joint programming project can support transition.
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Explore the gender imbalance in GCSE Computer Science, its causes -such as lack of role models, unconscious bias, and a non-inclusive curriculum - and develop strategies and KS3 interventions to increase uptake in your school.
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Bring computing careers into the classroom with STEM Ambassadors - volunteers from the world of work.
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Leading computing in your school? This course will support you in developing as a subject leader, helping you build the skills and confidence needed for success.
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A crash course on the world of functional programming. Gain confidence in looking at functions as first-class objects to help your students in this topic. This course covers all the key operations needed for students' exams.
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Explore how to improve attainment in computer science by examining how students should tackle exam questions, utilising key resources such as moderator reports, applying retrieval and interleaving strategies, and mapping progression from KS3 to KS4.
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Create an inspiring and engaging computing curriculum for secondary school students, using freely available resources.
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Inaugural conference from the National Centre for Computing Education focused on advancing digital skills, equality, and inclusion in computing education.
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11 March 10:00—11 March 2026
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Discover the fundamentals of machine learning, how it works, and learn to train your own AI using free online tools.
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During this course you'll learn new programming techniques to enable you to be able to teach programming at A Level. This will help you teach A Level computer science to your students and bring their programming up to A Level standard.
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Explore physical computing using the micro:bit device and how the Teach Computing Curriculum can be used to engage students.
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Explore physical computing using the Raspberry Pi Pico device and how the Teach Computing Curriculum can be used to engage students.
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Start to design a computing curriculum that supports deep learning by all students throughout KS3.
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Develop a knowledge-based curriculum for excellent in KS3, supported by the most effective teaching approaches.
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Put computational thinking at the heart of an inclusive and equitable curriculum to broaden the appeal of computing.
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During this two day residential you'll deepen your understanding of what makes a successful KS3 curriculum.
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26 August 10:00—27 August 2026
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This action-oriented professional development course explores the options available to computing teachers in different school contexts.
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An introduction to Maths for A level Computer Science . Gain confidence in applying mathematical concepts such as mantissas and exponents to binary problems. How does a computer represent floating numbers?
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New to leading secondary computing or looking to step into a leadership role? This course is designed to support you as a new computing subject leader, helping you develop the skills and confidence needed for success.
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During this course you'll learn how to use object-oriented programming, you'll explore varying programming techniques and develop your own working OOP solution.
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During this course you'll explore how pathfinding algorithms can be used to find the shortest path between a set of points.
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Get yourself and your teaching team inspection-ready with this short course, including how to prepare for an Ofsted ‘Deep Dive’ in Computing.
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Examine a range of pedagogical approaches suitable for teaching computing in Key Stage 3
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Explore strategies to improve attainment in Computer Science for students working towards grades 1–3. Focus on tailored approaches that build foundational skills, boost confidence, and address key challenges, ensuring all students can make progress and develop a deeper understanding of the subject.
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Explore strategies to support students with GCSE computer science subject knowledge during this two-day residential.
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28 July 10:00—29 July 2026
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Learn about the structure of the internal components of a computer system. Learn about the amazing fetch,decode and execute cycle and it's impact on the registers.
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During this CPD you'll explore effective teaching strategies to build student knowledge for long-term recall, leading to confidence in assessments.
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Improve student engagement in your GCSE Computer Science lessons by developing your classroom pedagogy.
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Building on your prior subject knowledge of programming, this CPD helps teachers to teach others how to become effective programmers.
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