Training Courses

Overview Excel Modelling Best Practice is designed to ensure that teachers are aware of industry best practice in Excel spreadsheet development so that they can inform and assess their students appropriately. It covers workbook design, modelling principles and key Excel functions, formulae and functionality to enable teachers to enhance pupils' use of Excel in modelling. Excel modelling within the KS2/3/4 curriculum Developing model logic Systems design principles applied to Excel Workbook structure best practice Data structure best practice Managing parameters Tools for best practice, including functions, range names, validation Approaches to scenario modelling Techniques to build-in flexibility Testing assumptions [...]

Overview The Scratch fundamentals course focuses on one of the best free computing resources available, the Scratch programming tool created by MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Scratch within the context of the KS1/2/3 National Curriculum Getting hold of Scratch Key programming concepts How Scratch supports these concepts Scratch elements and terminology Scratch commands Building programs (practical) Engaging the children Differentiation with Scratch Making Scratch topic-specific Lesson resources (practical) Who should attend? Teachers from KS1 to KS3 who are unfamiliar with Scratch. Because of the nature of Scratch, it may be more of interest to teachers [...]