Course calendar

CHRISTMAS ART WORKSHOP

Waterford Teachers' Centre

CHRISTMAS ART - PRIMARY TEACHERS - ONE EVENING WORKSHOP

Learn how to make Christmas Crafts to sell at a School Craft Fair!!

Discover how to make simple but beautiful decorations for your home and school suitable for all classes and abilities.

EFFECTIVE APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES WHEN TEACHING PUPILS WITH AUTISM - TEACHERS & SEN TEACHERS

Waterford Teachers' Centre

This Workshop is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the autism spectrum, current research, and best practice approaches, this comprehensive programme equips teachers, parents and other practitioners with numerous evidence-based strategies to meet the needs of children and young people with autism, from preschool age to further education. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is an umbrella term used to describe individuals who have very specific difficulties in social skills and with communication and who engage in restrictive or repetitive activities.  ASD describes a spectrum of disorders. This course is designed to respond to this need and provides flexible and accessible training and rapid upskilling for those working with individuals on the autism spectrum. This course is primarily designed to give teachers the confidence and skills to support children and young people with autism.

COMPUTER SCIENCE FIRST (CS FIRST)

Waterford Teachers' Centre

Computer Science First (CS First) is a free programme, similar to Coder Dojo, that increases student access and exposure to computer science (CS) education through after-school, in-school, and summer programmes. This course will provide teachers with a hands on introduction to Google’s CS First programme so that they can set up computer clubs in their own schools with students from 4th, 5th and 6th classes.