Professional learning
Find a range of professional learning and classroom resources to help teachers stay up-to-date with the latest from the digital world.
Professional learning resources for teachers
A collection of tools to help teachers gain relevant skills in teaching students about digital citizenship.
Microsoft Educator: Digital Citizenship
This 60-minute self-directed training course from Microsoft helps you teach students responsible online behaviour.
As a teacher, the course will help you:
- teach digital citizenship through a positive lens
- identify ways to integrate digital citizenship skills into lessons and activities.
The course gives you access to an Educator Toolkit, including an interactive workbook.
eSafety Schools' Hub
Schools can use the Office of the eSafety Commissioner's resources hub to:
- develop a whole-school community approach to online safety
- support classroom learning
- access professional development, and
- respond to online incidents.
Cyber security training
The NSW Department of Education offers a range of cyber security courses for teachers on the staff professional learning portal MyPL. These are:
- Cyber Security training – all staff
- Phishing Awareness – Beginner
- Phishing Awareness – Advanced
- Vishing Awareness
- Understanding social engineering
- Be aware of Ransomware
- Be password smart
The University of Adelaide offers courses for teachers on cyber security, aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies. The university's Computer Science Education Research (CSER) Group has created a suite of massively open online courses (MOOCs) for teachers.
Cyber security and awareness training for primary and secondary teachers are $99 each, and include practical activities for the classroom.
Cybermarvel professional learning
Use Cybermarvel online safety resources to learn how you can:
- protect against phishing and ransomware attacks
- encourage good digital citizenship in the broader school community.
Critical thinking
Learn more about how students' critical thinking skills apply to all content areas and help them process large amounts of data.
Digital learning selector
The NSW Department of Education provides information and resources to help teachers use up-to-date digital technology in their practice.
The Digital Learning Selector allows users to search for digital tools according to what they want to do, and includes teaching and strategy recommendations.
Google Education
The Google Education: Teacher Center offers several free online courses. Teachers in NSW can access courses by logging into the Teacher Center using your Google credentials (@education.nsw.gov.au).