Flexible professional learning allows school educators to focus on the skills relevant to their work. Free, self-paced online modules make it easier to fit learning into busy teaching schedules.
Since launching in July 2024, the online Micro-credentials for Classroom Confidence have received over 13,000 registrations of interest from educators across Australia.
Funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and delivered by Adelaide University, the 3 micro-credentials in this series have been designed by experts in direct response to teacher needs, offering strategies that can be applied directly in the classroom.
The micro-credentials are:
- Free for Australian-based teachers, school leaders, classroom support staff, and pre-service teachers.
- Flexible and self-paced, allowing school educators to complete their learning around existing commitments.
- Recognised professional learning, counting towards annual PD requirements.
- Co-designed with representatives from government and non-government education authorities and other relevant professional organisations, ensuring alignment with priorities and terminology across systems and jurisdictions.
The micro-credentials offer a potential credit pathway to a Master of Education via the free online Classroom Confidence Assessment Credential.
The 3 micro-credentials cover the topics of Classroom Management, Explicit Teaching and Teaching Phonics. Each micro-credential includes 4 distinct modules, with 48 hours of learning for the full micro-credential or 12 hours for each stand-alone module.
Each module can be completed independently, giving school educators greater choice in tailoring their professional development to their needs.
Hear from school educators across the country about the positive impact the micro-credentials are having on their classrooms!
1. Classroom Management micro-credential
About the Classroom Management micro-credential
Managing a classroom can be challenging, but there are strategies that work. In this micro-credential, you’ll discover how to improve your classroom culture using preventative and proactive management strategies that work best for your context.
You will investigate strategies for creating safe, consistent and predictable learning environments that enable habit formation, build trust, foster a sense of community, and support more engaged and productive learning. You can also participate in online forums and connect with other educators across Australia.
Choose one or more modules, or complete all 4:
- Creating a safe and orderly classroom culture
- Addressing frequent interruptions to learning
- Building positive and inclusive practices
- Managing escalations in behaviour
Each module provides approximately 12 hours of professional learning and can be completed independently, or all modules can be completed as part of the full Classroom Management micro-credential.
‘This micro-credential was excellent in terms of the academic rigour that it gave. We are constantly looking to improve the practices of our school and our teachers, and this micro-credential really helps us to do that, given research-backed practices.’
– Evan, Secondary School Leader
2. Explicit Teaching micro-credential
About the Explicit Teaching micro-credential
Explicit teaching is an evidence-based approach to effectively teach new content. In this course, you will explore evidence-based strategies you can use to plan, implement and assess explicit teaching sessions in a way that supports the needs of diverse cohorts of students.
You’ll develop lesson plans grounded in explicit teaching methodologies, participate in online forums and connect with other educators across Australia.
Choose one or more modules, or complete all 4:
- Planning for explicit teaching
- Differentiating explicit teaching
- Implementing explicit teaching
- Assessment and feedback
Each module provides approximately 12 hours of professional learning and can be completed independently, or all modules can be completed as part of the full Explicit Teaching micro-credential.
‘It doesn’t matter whether you are teaching primary school or secondary school, it’s all relevant and it’s easily put into practice. Great resources! So why not do it?’
– Alison, Primary School Leader
3. Teaching Phonics micro-credential
About the Teaching Phonics micro-credential
Phonics is the cornerstone of early literacy, yet many teachers do not feel confident in teaching phonics in a systematic and explicit way. This course provides insights into the teaching of phonics for both primary and secondary teachers and identifies the critical evidence-based strategies and practices that support student learning, using the latest research.
You’ll take a deep dive into the theories that underpin phonics and the contemporary instructional approaches that can support you to embed systematic synthetic phonics into your daily practice, including with diverse cohorts of students. Supported by an online community of peers, you will leave better prepared to help your students develop the phonics skills they need.
Choose one or more modules, or complete all 4:
- Foundations of phonics
- Assessment for phonics understanding
- Planning and implementing phonics teaching
- Targeted phonics support
Each module provides approximately 12 hours of professional learning and can be completed independently, or all modules can be completed as part of the full Teaching Phonics micro-credential.
‘This course has given me invaluable insights into the structured nature of a whole-school approach to phonics and how carefully building on previous knowledge can gradually increase a student’s ability to decode and encode.
– Anonymous, Secondary Teacher
Get started today
Whether you’re an in-service educator refining your practice, a school leader supporting staff capability, or a pre-service teacher strengthening your foundations, the Micro-credentials for Classroom Confidence offer an accessible and effective way to build your confidence and impact. Choose individual modules based on your professional learning needs or complete a full micro-credential.
Enrol today to upskill with purpose and teach with impact.
