Professional learning

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
• Cyber Security annual refrersher training – all staff

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).