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FSC2554 Educational Practices for Fostering Skills for the 21st century

Course Description

“Educational Practices for Fostering Skills for the 21st Century” is an online summer course tailored for primary school teachers aiming to prepare their students for the complexities of today’s and tomorrow’s worlds. This course focuses on nurturing critical and creative thinking, collaboration, growth mindset, grit, self-efficacy, and communication skills, underpinning their importance across the curriculum and in life beyond the classroom. Through a series of engaging modules, educators will gain practical strategies to integrate these skills into their teaching practices, supported by current educational frameworks and the School Self-Evaluation process.

  • Creativity in Literacy: Understand the interplay between creativity and literacy development, exploring drama, Reader’s Theatre, and other creative mediums within the Aistear framework and the new primary language curriculum.
  • Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Learn to define and foster critical thinking within literacy and numeracy, identifying opportunities to enhance these skills throughout the primary curriculum.
  • Developing Resilience and Self-efficacy: Explore the concepts of growth mindset, grit, and self-efficacy, understanding their impact on motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes.
  • Enhancing Collaboration: Delve into cooperative learning principles and strategies, facilitating effective collaboration in literacy, numeracy, and beyond.
  • Cultivating Communication Skills: Examine methods to bolster communication skills within the primary school context, emphasising the role of feedback and the importance of these skills for lifelong success.

This course is ideal for primary school teachers who are passionate about equipping their students with the skills necessary for success in the 21st century. Whether you’re seeking innovative strategies to enhance your current teaching practices or looking to integrate these essential skills more effectively into your curriculum, this course offers valuable guidance and resources.

Enrol today and begin transforming your classroom into a hub of critical thinking, creativity, resilience, and collaboration.

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Essential Details

Price: €69.00
Course Code: FSC2554
Tutor Support: Phone, e-Mail, Forum, Live Chat
Start Date: Tuesday, 1st July 2025
Duration: 20 Hours
Format: Online
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Proficient
Qualification: Certificate

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Course Information

EPV Days – this course is approved by the Dept. of Education for qualification of EPV days. The more courses you select, the more EPV days you receive:

  • 1 online course – 3 EPV days entitlement
  • 2 online courses – 4 EPV days entitlement
  • 3 online courses – 5 EPV days entitlement

Requirements: All our courses are run in accordance with the Department of Education and Skills criteria.

Training Period: Courses begin on Tuesday, 1st July 2025 at 9:00am and must be completed by Friday, 22nd August 2025 at 5.00pm.

Course Length: Each course requires approximately 20 hours of study including time to complete any assessments.

Support: The Discussion forums are facilitated by expert moderators.

Course Fees: Courses may be purchased either online or by phone.

  • One course €69
  • Two courses €89
  • Three courses €99

Questions and Support: Our Support team are on hand to answer all your queries, either by phone, live chat or e-mail.

Certification: When you have successfully completed your course, you will receive your CPD Certificate.

Course Content

Module 1: Enhancing Literacy Through Creativity

  • Understand how creativity supports the development of literacy as outlined in the new primary language curriculum and the draft primary curriculum framework.
  • Explore the role of drama, Reader’s Theatre, story, and puppetry in developing communication and language skills.
  • Utilize the Aistear framework for play-based drama and assess creativity in teaching and learning through the School Self-Evaluation (SSE) process.

Module 2: Critical Thinking

  • Define critical thinking within the primary curriculum context and identify opportunities for enhancing these skills across the curriculum.
  • Outline benefits and strategies for fostering critical thinking in literacy and numeracy.
  • Evaluate the development of critical thinking skills through the SSE process.

Module 3: Growth Mindset, Grit and Self-efficacy

  • Define and explore the concepts of growth mindset, grit, and self-efficacy and their roles in learning.
  • Examine how these concepts influence learning outcomes, motivation, engagement, and positive learning experiences.
  • Consider the importance of these skills for students’ current and future success and evaluate them through the SSE process.

Module 4: Collaboration and Cooperative Learning

  • Define cooperative learning and its principles within the primary curriculum.
  • Identify types of cooperative learning, group roles, and strategies for effective team formation.
  • Explore cooperative learning strategies for literacy and numeracy and evaluate the SSE process for cooperative learning.

Module 5: Cultivating Communication Skills in Literacy and Numeracy

  • Define communication within the primary school context and highlight its importance for classroom learning and lifelong success.
  • Examine strategies for fostering communication skills, including methods for effective feedback.
  • Evaluate the role of communication skills development through the SSE process.

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  • 7. Start Training

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  • 8. Receive Certificate

    Once you have completed your training and all the required steps outlined in the course, you’ll be able to request your certificate to download / print and progress to your next course.

Frequently Asked Questions

The course completion requirements are as follows:

You are required to post two comments to the forum post at the end of each module throughout the course. Each contribution is required to be at least 100 words.

Your progression from module to module is contingent on the successful completion of these assignments.

The end of course reflective assignment must demonstrate achievement of the course’s stated learning outcomes.

You will be required to complete a minimum of 10 hours online and an additional 10 hours either online or offline

If you signed up for your course online you will have received an email with login details to start your training. Please check your spam/junk email folder as it may have landed in there.

All our course facilitators monitor the progress of every teacher on their respective course so please allow up to 2 weeks for the grade and feedback for the End of Course assignment.

The courses contain 5 modules each of which is made up of individual lessons.

You are required to engage with the course for a total of 20 hours (10 Hours online is mandatory and the remaining 10 hours can be online or offline for other learning activities)

Yes you can decide to do either. It is up to you what way you want to complete the course, once you demonstrate engagement for a total of 20 hours (10 of these must be online)

You are required to post to the forum posts at the end of each module throughout the course. You will need to post two comments. Each contribution is required to be at least 100 words.

This is usually caused by not meeting the criteria for completing the previous module, in particular posting at least two contributions to the course forum.

The minimum word count is to be no less than 300 words and not more than 500 words.

Naturally, like most courses, it is only possible to evaluate your grade when you have completed the course.

There is two parts to the assessment:

<strong>1. Meeting the Minimum Criteria:</strong> You are required to complete all 5 modules, regularly contribute to the course forum after each module (at least 2 meaningful contributions per module).

<strong>2. Assignments:</strong> You must complete Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and posts to the forums at the end of each module, as well as an overall End of Course Assignment. Once you have met each of these conditions, you should qualify for your EPV days and receiving your Flúirse certificate of completion.

You’ll be glad to hear that ALL our course facilitators monitor the progress of every teacher on their respective course and will always inform them before the course closing date if they do not appear to have met the above criteria for any reason.

More questions? Check our FAQ Section.

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