Webinars and other professional development resources
Want to improve your school’s CPD for teachers with ready-made resources? We offer free on-demand webinars and CPD papers that bring pedagogy and interactivity straight into the classroom. At the end of this page, you will find some 'how-to' webinars that show practical ways to connect and engage with students through LessonUp. Support your teachers with learning techniques, webinars, adaptable slides, and activities designed to make learning 100% effective!
Upcoming Webinars & Other Resources
Encourage your students to be active learners 👉 23 April 2025
Children are naturally inclined toward active learning and inquiry, driven by an enthusiasm for discovery. However, keeping every student engaged in the classroom can be a challenge. So, how can you nurture this curiosity and ensure all students take part?
Incorporating active teaching and learning strategies can make a big difference. These approaches encourage a dynamic and stimulating environment where all students feel free to participate and contribute at their own pace.
On-Demand Webinars & Other Resources
Digital tools for inclusion: Helping autistic students thrive
To mark World Autism Day, we hosted a special webinar exploring how digital tools can make learning more inclusive for autistic students. The recorded session is now available — featuring a guest expert and a classroom teacher, Louise Phillips, who shares how she supports her autistic students.
Expect practical tips, real-life examples, and ideas you can use straight away. Whether you’re experienced in supporting neurodiverse students or just starting out, this session will give you useful insights to take back to your own teaching.
Mastering AI in education
Curious how AI can transform your teaching? Watch our exclusive masterclass to explore how to use artificial intelligence effectively for lesson planning, teaching, and learning. Discover how Maia, a teacher-centred AI assistant, can support your work and improve student engagement.
Explore real examples of how AI is helping educators save time, personalise learning, and create engaging, interactive lessons. Whether you teach in primary, secondary, or further education, we’ll show you how to make your lessons more dynamic with AI-generated quizzes and polls tailored to your content.
10 learning techniques to stimulate critical thinking
What’s happening in the world? What caused it? And what can we expect in the future?
As a teacher, you can teach and guide your students to become aware of their thinking process. In this webinar and CPD paper we offer you a selection of learning techniques and strategies to bring actuality into the classroom, inspire your students, and stimulate them to think critically. Give them the tools to think rationally, logically, and independently. There is nothing more important you could possibly teach them, no matter what subjects you teach.Â
How to engage disaffected learners
Is student engagement a challenge in your classroom? Join our exclusive masterclass to explore how interactive teaching tools like LessonUp can encourage student participation, inspire collaboration, and create an engaging learning experience for disaffected learners.
Learn how to move beyond static slides and traditional teaching methods with dynamic, interactive features designed to improve student engagement and motivation. Whether you teach primary or secondary students, this session will provide hands-on strategies to re-engage learners, strengthen classroom interaction, and make lessons more immersive.
Smart bard on the smart board: Making Shakespeare interactive
Is this a Smart Board before my eyes? Join our on-demand webinar to explore how LessonUp’s interactive tools can bring Shakespeare to life in today’s classroom.
Learn how to captivate students with dynamic, interactive features and activities that move beyond traditional PowerPoint slides. Whether you teach primary or secondary levels, this session will provide hands-on strategies to make Shakespeare more engaging and accessible.
Don’t miss this chance to inspire learners with Shakespeare!
12 learning techniques to apply Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction
In this webinar and CPD paper we briefly summarise Barak Rosenshine’s 10 Principles of Instruction, and offer you a selection of 12 learning techniques and strategies to apply Rosenshine’s principles directly in the classroom. Each technique builds upon Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, making them accessible and relevant for both you and your students. Implementing them in the classroom helps boost student engagement. They stimulate creative thinking and offer a podium also to quieter, less forthcoming students.
10 learning techniques to make the most of your students' metacognitive skills
The word 'metacognition' sounds very scientific, but it is something we all do every day, and can develop further. It could also be called mindfulness, or awareness of our feelings of ‘knowing’ and ‘not knowing’, plus the strategies we develop based on those feelings. In this webinar and CPD paper we unpick the fancy word, become acquainted with what it really means, and of its importance for both you and your students. To make it clear and practical, we offer 10 targeted learning techniques to embed metacognition directly into your lessons and lesson plans.
Tricks and treasures for formidable formative assessment
Formative assessment is an integral part of a student-centred approach to education, fostering continuous improvement and a deeper understanding of the material being taught. It involves a variety of techniques, such as quizzes, open questions, discussions, observations, and feedback, all designed to inform both teachers and students about the effectiveness and quality of the learning process. This guide explores LessonUp’s interactive assessment features and the pedagogical principles behind them.
10 effective steps towards closing the attainment gap
How do you reduce and ultimately close the attainment gap within the education sector? Starting in your classroom, with the tools you have available? The best approach is to think constructively and positively, and to make steady progress step by step, little by little, on different levels. You’re already making a difference in your classroom every day. To support you on this journey, we highlight 10 steps towards closing the attainment gap with the help of our toolkit for teachers. We would like to support you, and thousands of committed teachers like you, in working towards closing the attainment gap, starting in your classroom.
Drive positive change with a dynamic digital strategy
The main objectives of implementing a school-wide digital strategy should match your school’s goals in terms of pupil and teacher welfare, safety, progress, and performance. A digital strategy can call itself ‘dynamic’ if it is flexible, adaptable and responsive. In this guide you will find an overview of the key benefits you can achieve by using our online teaching platform to implement it. Explore the goals and topics that align with your school's requirements, and discover how LessonUp can assist you in achieving them.
How-to webinars on teaching with LessonUp: Discover practical, interactive ways to keep learners motivated!
Getting started with LessonUp
Do you want to create your first lesson in LessonUp or do you need a refresher course? We'd love to help you find your way around our interactive platform. During this webinar, our trainers will cover the first steps in LessonUp.
What can you expect?
- What is LessonUp?Â
- How can you use LessonUp as an interactive tool?
- How to create a lesson?
After this webinar, you'll be able to get started with your first lesson and know how to deliver it to students.Â
The next step in LessonUp
Now is the perfect time to start thinking about how to maximise your efficiency on our platform. Organising your cohort effectively will save you valuable time when adapting and distributing lesson materials. You can also make the most of lesson reports to streamline your workflow.
What can you expect?
- Learn how to establish and edit classes.
- Discover why and when to distribute lessons / assignments.
- Examine the myriad of insights LessonUp provides you with.
After this webinar, you will gain a deeper understanding of how administrative tasks function. You will also find inspiration for assigning your LessonUp creations to different students. Additionally, you will be able to navigate the insights in the report functions with confidence.
Drag-and-drop questions in LessonUp
During this webinar, we will guide you through the process of working with the drag-and-drop question feature in LessonUp, helping you make your lessons more interactive and engaging.
What can you expect?
- Learn how to create engaging drag-and-drop questions.
- Let us inspire you with several examples of drag-and-drops.
By the end of this webinar, you will have the knowledge and confidence to create and integrate your first drag-and-drop question into your lesson seamlessly.
LessonUp with and without devices
In this webinar, Timothy explores the role of devices in the classroom and how to make the most of LessonUp in different teaching scenarios.
What can you expect?
- Discover how to use LessonUp effectively, even without devices.
- Gain practical tips and see real examples from the classroom.
By the end of this webinar, you will have new strategies to engage your students, whether they are using devices or not.