Welcome to the Learning Hub

The Learning Hub is your home for professional learning and development. Below you’ll find links to your enrolled courses, information about professional accreditation through Chartered Status, bitesize CPD units and details of other available courses.

My Enrolled Courses

Any courses you have enrolled on hosted by the Chartered College of Teaching can be found here. Simply click the box and you will be taken to our learning platform – MyPD – to start or continue your study.

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Chartered Status Certified CPD Units

Receive formal certification for your learning and gain credits towards Chartered Status when you complete any of the CPD units on our Chartered pathways for teachers, mentors or school leaders.

Strengthen your teaching expertise with Chartered Teacher Pathway

Introductory Course: Chartered Teacher Status

Familiarise yourself with the Chartered Teacher Professional Principles and explore the evidence around effective CPD as you develop a professional learning plan that will drive your professional learning and development as you work towards becoming Chartered.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Eligible members who are practising classroom teachers (inc. middle leaders and some senior leaders with classroom teaching responsibility)

Certificate in evidence-informed practice

Learn how to navigate education research, build your understanding of key themes and debates within current education research, and consider implications for practice in your school context.

Self Paced

Suitable for: School leaders, trust leaders, classroom teachers, middle leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and other education professionals

Development of Teaching Practice Award

Explore the development of teacher expertise as you choose an area of your teaching practice to refine and develop, engaging in cycles of deliberate practice to implement and embed evidence-informed approaches in your classroom.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Practising classroom teachers (inc. middle leaders and some senior leaders with classroom teaching responsibility

Education Research and Inquiry Certificate

Take your research engagement one step further as you learn about the process of practitioner inquiry as a powerful mechanism for professional development and undertake an evidence-informed inquiry project within your classroom, focusing on an area of your choosing.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Practising classroom teachers (inc. middle leaders, mentors and some senior leaders with classroom teaching responsibility)

Professional Knowledge Award

Build your understanding of the evidence and principles of assessment and demonstrate your knowledge of assessment and pedagogy through three professional knowledge examinations designed to assess your understanding of general and subject/ phase/specialism-specific approaches.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Teachers with relevant classroom experience

Increase your impact as a school leader with the Chartered Teacher (Leadership) pathway

Introductory Course: Chartered Teacher (Leadership) Status

Familiarise yourself with the Chartered Teacher (Leadership) Professional Principles and explore the evidence around effective CPD as you develop a professional learning plan that will drive your professional learning and development as you work towards becoming Chartered.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Eligible members who are employed in a senior leadership role (typically headteachers, assistant/deputy headteachers, executive leaders and those working in leadership roles across multiple schools)

Certificate in evidence-informed practice

Learn how to navigate education research, build your understanding of key themes and debates within current education research, and consider implications for practice in your school context.

Self Paced

Suitable for: School leaders, trust leaders, classroom teachers, middle leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and other education professionals

Development of Teaching Practice Award (Leadership)

Explore the development of teacher expertise and learn how you, as a leader, can develop and embed evidence-informed approaches to teacher CPD that will make a difference to pupils in your context.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Audience: School leaders (inc. Executive Headteachers, Headteachers, DHT, AHT, and leaders working in similar roles across a school or trust e.g. Director of Education).

Education Research and Inquiry Certificate (Leadership)

Learn how to use inquiry as a mechanism for rigorous evaluation of school practices and to support school development, and undertake an evidence-informed inquiry project to gain deeper insights into existing school practice, with the ultimate aim to improve outcomes for the pupils you work with.

Self Paced

Suitable for: School leaders (inc. Executive Headteachers, Headteachers, DHT, AHT, and leaders working in similar roles across a school or trust e.g. Director of Education).

Professional Knowledge Award (Leadership)

Demonstrate your knowledge of school leadership, teacher development, pedagogy and assessment through three professional knowledge examinations (includes access to our ‘Principles of assessment’ online short course).

Self Paced

Suitable for: School leaders (inc. Executive Headteachers, Headteachers, DHT, AHT, and leaders working in similar roles across a school or trust e.g. Director of Education).

Enhance your mentoring skills with the Chartered Teacher (Mentor) pathway

Introductory Course: Chartered Teacher (Mentor) Status

Familiarise yourself with the Chartered Teacher (Mentor) Professional Principles and explore the evidence around effective CPD as you develop a professional learning plan that will drive your professional learning and development as you work towards becoming Chartered.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Eligible members who are practising teachers and who mentor one or more classroom- based teacher

Certificate in evidence-informed practice

Learn how to navigate education research, build your understanding of key themes and debates within current education research, and consider implications for practice in your school context.

Self Paced

Suitable for: School leaders, trust leaders, classroom teachers, middle leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and other education professionals

Development of Teaching Practice Award (Mentor)

Explore the evidence around effective mentoring, and the development of expertise. Engage in cycles of deliberate practice as you focus on developing effective mentoring approaches that will make a difference to teachers and pupils within your context.

Self Paced

Suitable for: Mentors typically working with classroom-based teachers.

Education Research and Inquiry Certificate (Mentor)

Self Paced

Suitable for: Practising classroom teachers (inc. middle leaders, mentors and some senior leaders with classroom teaching responsibility)

Professional Knowledge Award (Mentor)

Demonstrate your knowledge of effective mentoring, teacher development, pedagogy and assessment through three professional knowledge examinations (includes access to our ‘Principles of assessment’ online short course).

Self Paced

Suitable for: Mentors typically working with classroom-based teachers.

Bitesize CPD

Bitesize CPD is designed to support practitioners’ learning around a specific topic. The content is carefully sequenced to develop understanding, with additional learning activities to support practical application. These units can be used as part of individual, team or whole school CPD. Each unit aims to provide an introduction to the topic with opportunities to take learning further, as appropriate.

Themed collections bring together a range of useful articles and resources on a specific topic. These provide an opportunity for practitioners to deepen their knowledge in their chosen area and shape their own professional learning.

Introduction to curriculum

Engaging parents and the school community

Learning in nature

Research literacy and engagement

Supporting pupil mental health: Whole-school approaches

Rethinking Curriculum

Supporting pupil mental health: Social media use

Supporting pupil mental health: Bereavement

Introduction to journal clubs

Fostering positive behaviour, relationships and learning environments

Leading Inclusive Schools

Module 1. Introduction to inclusive leadership

Develop your understanding of the core principles of inclusive school leadership.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Module 2. Building and developing a diverse and inclusive staff team

Learn more about championing within the staff team, ensuring recruitment, retention and progression policies and practices are transparent, inclusive, and accessible to all.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Module 3. Leading an inclusive curriculum

Learn more about enacting a curriculum that is representative, diverse and promotes high expectations for all learners.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Module 4. Assessment and pedagogy for equity

Learn more about ensuring that approaches to pedagogy and assessment are inclusive and promote equity.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Module 5. Engaging parents and the school community

Learn more about collaborating with the wider school community as partners in learning.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles

Module 6. Embedding and sustaining an inclusive school culture

Learn more about developing and implementing school policy and practice with sensitivity to contextual and individual needs.

Self-paced

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Decolonising the Curriculum Short Courses

Module 1: Defining decolonisation

Learn about the challenges of defining what it means to decolonise and diversify the curriculum.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher Educators

Module 2: Knowing our histories

Learn about our multiplicity of British histories and their influence on the curriculum.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher educators

Module 3: Why decolonise and diversify the curriculum?

Learn about why schools do and might choose to undertake this work.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher educators

Module 4: Approaches to decolonising and diversifying the curriculum

Learn about what decolonising and diversifying the curriculum might look like in practice.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher educators

Module 5: Belonging in literature

Learn about how to make literature and resource choices that foster belonging for all pupils.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher educators

Module 6: Conversations about race

Learn about becoming more confident and effective in conversations about race.

2 Hours

Suitable for: Early Years Practitioners, Teachers, Teacher educators

Other Short Courses

The units below are delivered through Future Learn. If you register for these courses you will be taken to their own external website to complete the courses.

Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to Your Teaching Practice

Discover effective research methods and learn how to make use of education research in your role.

4 Weeks

Suitable for: Teachers

Education Research That Matters: Doing Research in Your Learning Community

Build the tools and knowledge to perform your own education research and become a teacher-researcher

4 Weeks

Suitable for: School Leaders, Teachers

How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students

Explore online teaching with this course for educators in repost to the COVID-19 pandemic

3 Weeks

Suitable for: Teachers

Leadership of Education Technology in Schools

Essential for school leaders who are developing and implementing technology strategies

4 Weeks

Suitable for: School Leaders

Refugee Education

Learn about supporting refugee students in schools and developing inclusive school policies.

8 hours

Suitable for: School leaders, including headteachers, deputy headteachers, exec. headteachers, assistant headteachers and middle leadership roles.

Using Technology in Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning

Explore effective research-informed ways of using technology to support teaching and learning

4 Weeks

Suitable for: Teachers