Secondary school teacher resources
Amazon Future Engineer provides secondary school teachers with teacher training and in-school workshops to support you in upping your skills and confidence, and in making sure that your students have access to the opportunities surrounding computer science.
Choose between any of our sponsored providers and their programmes to help you continue your learning and to add to your curricula.
Digit<all> provides training for teachers and workshops and enrichment camps for young people both in school and in the community. These opportunities are linked to the context of digital roles such as in space, sport and cyber security.
Digit<all> also generate resources to enable teachers to deliver creative computing content within their curriculum.
The Smallpeice Trust is an educational charity that inspires young people to pursue careers in science and engineering through events and workshops.
With Amazon Future Engineer’s sponsorship, the Smallpeice Trust is offering STEM Day workshops in secondary schools.
- STEM Days
- Residential STEM camp bursaries
In addition to the exciting and inspiring, themed STEM days workshops, secondary students get information about future career and higher/further education options, can put their creative thinking into action, and learn time management, team work, problem-solving, enterprise, personal and social skills.
The course will be delivered by academics from the University of Southampton, one of the UK’s leading robotics centres, and generously sponsored by Amazon, the multinational technology company that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Further support is provided by SourceBots, a not-for-profit organisation which runs robotics challenges for teenagers.
Amazon Future Engineer is sponsoring fully-funded places for residential programmes. https://www.smallpeicetrust.org.uk/fully-funded-places
STEM Learning is the UK’s largest provider of STEM education support and outreach, partnering with government, schools and companies like Amazon to provide world-leading STEM education for all young people across the UK.
With support from Amazon Future Engineer, STEM Learning offers free continuing professional development courses for teachers and bespoke, long-term ENTHUSE Partnerships for schools.
- teacher CPD combining residential, local and online courses
- free, curated and quality-assured resources
- teacher placements in a STEM-related industry or university department
- engaging with STEM Ambassadors to inspire young people
- STEM Clubs to engage young people and develop practical skills
Digital skills stretch across all of STEM; with an ever increasing reliance on technology, understanding topics such as artificial intelligence can open many doors across each of the different STEM sectors. Developing excellent problem solving skills isn’t unique to any one of the STEM disciplines, cross-curricular teaching can support students develop their ability to quickly and efficiently solve problems.
With the UK’s Digital Strategy firmly embedded, the need for digital skills is growing, and so is our support for schools. Find out how you can support students to thrive digitally in secondary education through our offer.
The mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation is to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.
With support from Amazon, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is empowering educators to deliver digital making programmes across the UK, with a focus on areas of educational disadvantage.
Introduce your students to the careers of the future and the basics of computer science through short learning experiences.