Available courses

Course image Return to Happiness
Psychosocial Support

Focus: Psychosocial recovery aimed at helping students recover in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Launched: August 2023
Next Cohort: August 2025
Modality: Asynchronous 
Duration: 18 hrs.
Participants: All registered Teachers
Certification: Competence

Course image Teaching to Reach Boys - Phase 2
St Lucia

*CLOSED*

Focus: Providing participants with the skills to recognize fundamental principles essential for designing lessons tailored to boys, along with practical examples of proven pedagogical and instructional strategies to enhance their engagement and learning.
Launched: June 2023
Duration: 18 hours
Modality: Mixed
Participants: St. Lucia Teachers
Certification: Competence


Course image Inclusive Early Childhood Development
Student Outcomes

Focus: Promoting teacher competencies necessary to foster inclusive early childhood development in Jamaican pre-schools.
Launched: October 2024
Next Cohort: October 2025
Modality: Asynchronous 
Duration: 10 weeks
Participants: Early Childhood Practitioners and Teachers 
Certification: Competence

Course image Teaching Civics with Character Education through Enrichment & Creative Expressions
Student Outcomes

Focus: Exploring the essential content, skills, and attitudes required to effectively deliver the NSC Civics component, while introducing the NSC Civics JamWay methodology that promotes a seamless, multidisciplinary, and inclusive teaching approach. 
Launched: October 2025
Next Cohort:
Modality: Mixed
Duration 15 hours
Participants: Grades 7-9 registered teachers
CertificationCompetence


Course image The Heart of Teaching (HoT)
Student Outcomes

Focus: Strategies that value diversity and promote inclusivity in the teaching learning process.
Launched: August 2024
Next Cohort: August 2025
Modality:Asynchronous
Duration 18 hours
Participants: All registered teacher
Certification: Competence

Course image Back to Basics: Engaging Gen Z - Alpha Students
Student Outcomes

Focus: Application of appropriate student engagement strategies and activities that inspire and motivate Generation Z and Generation Alpha students to achieve and exceed educational expectations.
Launched: August 2024
Next Cohort: July 2025
Modality: Self-paced
Duration 10 hours
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion


Course image Lesson Evaluation 2
Student Outcomes

Focus: Enhancing teachers' ability to craft clear, constructive, and reflective lesson evaluations that inform instructional improvement.
Launched: August 2024
Next Cohort: July 2025
Modality: Self-paced
Duration 10 hours
Participants: All registered teacher
Certification: Completion


Course image The Autism Spectrum: A Special Education Focus for All Teachers
Student Outcomes

Focus:  Strategies and techniques for effectively supporting students with autism in inclusive classrooms. 
Modality: Self-paced
Launched: July 2024
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration 10 hours: 
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion


Course image Inclusive STEAM Integration
Student Outcomes

Focus: Foundations of STEM/STEAM, Design Thinking and Authentic Learning, providing frameworks to create engaging, real-world learning experiences in the National Standards curriculum.

Launched: October 2025
Next Cohort:
Modality: Asynchronous
Duration 20 hours
Participants: Grades 7-9 teachers
Certification: Competence

Course image Environmental Science in the NSC (NEPA)
Student Outcomes

Focus:  Tools and strategies for planning and delivering the content associated with environmental science in the National Standards Curriculum (NSC).
Launched: July 2017
Next Cohort: July 2025
Modality: Self-paced
Duration 12 hours: 
Participants: Grades 4-6 registered teachers
Certification: Completion

Course image Teaching to Reach Boys - Jamaica
Student Outcomes

Focus: Providing participants with the skills to recognize fundamental principles essential for designing lessons tailored to boys, along with practical examples of proven pedagogical and instructional strategies to enhance their engagement and learning.
Launched: August 2023
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration: 18 hours
Modality: Asynchronous
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion

Course image Sustainable Differentiation Strategies for the Modern Classroom
Student Outcomes

Focus: Easy-to-use strategies to acknowledge and accommodate student differences.
Launched: August 2023
Next Cohort: October 2025
Duration: 18 hours
Modality: Self-paced
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion

Course image Meeting the Needs of Reluctant Learners
Student Outcomes

Focus: Development and implementation of strategies, classroom structures and systems to improve reluctant learners' levels of academic interest, motivational drive and success orientation.
Launched: July 2023
Next Cohort: January 2026
Duration: 18 hours
Modality: Asynchronous
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion


Course image National Professional Development Day Certification
Leadership and Management

Focus: To provide further information about the distributed toolkit and to create a space where registered teachers can engage with the training materials to obtain certification.
Launched: February 2025
Next Cohort: October 2025
Duration: 2 hours
Modality: Self-paced
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion

Course image ERAs Training in Assets Management System
Leadership and Management

Focus:  To enhance the management of educational resources and infrastructure within the Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY). 
Launched: November 2024
Next Cohort: 
Duration: 12 hours
Modality: Asynchronous
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Competence

Course image Action Research for In-service Educators (ARISE)
Leadership and Management

Focus: Providing action research support activity geared towards helping teachers to effectively implement their Statements of Intent based on their participation in PD empowerment activities.
Launched: September 2024
Next Cohort: 
Duration: September- May
Modality: Asynchronous
Participants: Teachers who have completed PD Matrix Statement of Intent noting an interest in doing an Action Research.
Certification: Completion

Course image Facilitator Development Program
Leadership and Management

Focus:  Equipping  PD trainers with the skills and knowledge to deliver effective peer support sessions offered by the Jamaica Teaching Council and its training partners.  
Launched: June 2024
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration: 12 hours
Modality: Mixed
Participants: Nominated Teachers
Certification: Competence

Course image Managing My Performance Appraisal: Instruments and Documents
Leadership and Management

Focus: Developing an awareness of the appraisal instruments, their purposes, key components, and required supporting materials.
Launched: July 2023
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration: 12 hours
Modality: Self-paced
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion

Course image Lead Teacher Training
Leadership and Management

Focus: Empowering excellent teachers to create and sustain learning communities that support teacher development work that will lead to positive student learning outcomes within their Quality Education Circles (QECs).
Launched: July 2023
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration: 15 hours
Modality: Mixed
Participants: Nominated Teachers 
Certification: Completion

Course image PD LEADership for Teacher Growth
Leadership and Management


Focus: Empowering teachers serving as chairpersons of their schools’ PD Committees by equipping them with the skills to plan and facilitate effective, collaborative, and collegial professional development activities.
Launched: June 2023
Next Cohort: August 2025
Duration: 12 hours
Modality: Mixed
Participants: Teachers nominated by their school administrator
Certification: Completion


Course image Future Teacher Kit 2.0
ICT Integration

Focus: Providing a scalable low-tech solution that capitalizes on the widespread use of mobile phones and messaging systems to assist teachers in delivering adaptive lessons.
Launched: January 2021
Next Cohort: January 2026
Duration: 12 weeks
ModalityMixed
Participants: All registered teachers
Tiered Certification: Participation and Completion

Course image Teacher Digital Skills
ICT Integration

Focus: Enhancing teachers' digital competencies through the application of student and teacher digital standards.
Launched: October 2023
Next Cohort: July 2025
Duration: 15 hours
ModalitySelf-paced
Participants: All registered teachers
Certification: Completion