Educator Programmes

Target audience: All Primary Educators from State and Non-State schools.

This is a 6-week course focusing on the educational benefits and pedagogical opportunities of using digital tools creatively to engage students in the primary classroom. Through this course, participants will be introduced to different educational apps and tools beneficial for active learning.

Participants who complete at least 75% of the weekly tasks and the final concluding task will receive a certificate of participation indicating the number of hours. Participants attending this course are entitled to apply for the Self-Sought training since attendance is on a voluntary basis and after school hours.

Target audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 from State and Non-State schools.

This 6-week course will enhance educators’ digital competences. The course aims to focus on using a variety of web 2.0 applications which enable learners to collaborate together to brainstorm, share ideas and opinions, document ideas during group discussions, create digital artefacts, offer peer feedback and finally to even collaborate with other learners beyond the classroom walls.

This course will run entirely on Ms Teams. The course is asynchronously run, that is, resources such as short videos and links are posted in the Ms Team platform once a week and participants go through their material at their own pace. An introductory voluntary meeting will take place on Monday 12th April 2021 at 4pm. 

There are no course fees and participants who complete at least 75% of the weekly tasks and the final concluding task will receive a certificate of participation indicating the number of hours. Participants attending this course are entitled to apply for the Self-Sought training since attendance is on a voluntary basis and after school hours.

For any queries, you may contact us via digital-literacy@ilearn.edu.mt

Target audience: All primary school educators from State and Non-State schools.

This 6-week course will focus on the educational benefits and pedagogical opportunities of using digital tools creatively to engage studetns in the current ‘distanced’ classroom and at home during online learning. Through this course, participants will be introduced to different educational apps and tools beneficial for active learning. 

This course will run entirely on Ms Teams. An introductory voluntary online meeting will take place during the first week of the course.

There are no course fees and participants who complete at least 75% of the weekly tasks will receive a certificate of participation indicating the number of hours. Participants attending this course are entitled to apply for the Self-Sought training since attendance is on a voluntary basis and after school hours.

For any queries, you may contact us via digital-literacy@ilearn.edu.mt

Target audience: KG, Years 1, 2 and 3 Educators from State and non-State schools

This 6 week course will enhance educators’ digital competences and help them integrate the use of technology across the curriculum whilst engaging students in the current ‘distanced’ classroom. Through this course, participants will be introduced to different educational tools beneficial for active learning.

This course will run entirely online on Ms Teams. The course is asynchronously run, that is, resources such as short videos and links are posted in the Ms Teams platform once a week and participants go through the material at their own pace. Educators will be supported all the way and may also request an in-class virtual session during the course duration. An introductory voluntary online meeting will take place on Wednesday 27th January 2021 at 4pm. 

There are no course fees and participants who complete at least 75% of the weekly tasks and the final concluding task will receive a certificate of participation indicating the number of hours. Participants attending this course are entitled to apply for the Self-Sought training since attendance is on a voluntary basis and after school hours.

Target audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 from State and Non-State schools.

This is a 6-week course focusing on the educational benefits and pedagogical opportunities of using tablets creatively to engage students in the current ‘distanced’ classroom and at home during online learning. It is asynchronously run; that is resources such as short videos and links are posted in the MS Teams platform weekly and participants go through the material at their own pace.

Educators will be encouraged to use the explored apps with their pupils and share samples of the pupils’ work. The apps explored are: Picsay, SimpleMind, Workspace, Comic Strip it! and Author.

This course will run entirely on Ms Teams. An introductory voluntary online meeting will take place to familiarize participants with the course. An online session will also be held at the end of the course.

Participants who complete at least 75% of the weekly tasks and the final concluding task will receive a certificate of participation indicating the number of hours. Participants attending this course are entitled to apply for the Self-Sought training since attendance is on a voluntary basis and after school hours.

Target audience: Years 1, 2 and 3 from State and Non-State schools

This programme aims to enhance educators’ digital competences and to help them incorporate the use of technology across the curriculum. It consists of six activities which need to be carried throughout the scholastic year. Through curriculum time and co-teaching sessions, educators are provided guidance and pedagogical support to design, plan and implement the use of digital technologies in the different stages of the learning process. By the end of the programme, educators will be more confident to select, modify, combine and create digital learning resources to address specific learning outcomes. This will provide more opportunities for their students to express themselves and to create digital content in a variety of digital formats.

The six activities are: Computational Thinking, Voice Recording, Compiling eBooks, Using Ready-made resources, Creating Interactive Resources and Producing Digital Presentations.

Target audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 from State and Non-State schools

This programme will help educators focus on nurturing learners’ collaborative competences during the learning process. It will familiarize educators with various apps and web 2.0 tools which can assist both face-to-face, as well as virtual collaboration. Considering that during the online activities educators will be helping learners develop competences in Digital Citizenship, it is recommenced that during the programme educators use eSafety resources which will be made ready available and focus the class activities around the theme of eSafety. However, educators may choose to select any curricular theme when carrying out the offline and online activities included in the programme.

Target audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 from State and Non-State schools

This programme seeks to encourage teachers to promote the creation of a wide variety of digital artefacts while using tablets in the classroom. This will subsequently provide learners with a variety of opportunities to become digital content producers. By the end of the programme, teachers will be conversant with a variety of productivity apps and will be capable of assisting learners in making an informed choice regarding the most appropriate app to use for as pecific purpose, and will be able to seamlessly integrate these apps into a variety of different curricular areas. Learners will be capable of making informed choices regarding which is the most suitable app to achieve a particular purpose.

The activities include: Picsay, Simplemind, Animator, Author Premium, Workspace and ComicStripIt!.

Target audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 from State schools

This programme aims to engage teachers in computation thinking concepts by using the Lego WeDo 2.0 kit in a cross-curricular approach. Teachers who follow this course will understand the fundamental concepts offered by the kit and how these can be implemented in a project-based learning framework. This programme will empower teachers to act as mentors and participate in the Malta Robo League. Participation in this league is on a voluntary basis but it is an opportunity to be sought once the programme comes to an end. The practical sessions in this programme will also engage teachers in self-paced learning while triggering the self-reflective processes.