Continuing Professional Development
Apple Professional Learning Specialist
When you engage with an Apple Professional Learning Specialist — either in person or online — you receive coaching, mentoring and support that’s personalised to the needs of your educators and students.
It can be a difficult decision for schools to decide how their CPD will involve new technology and who they choose to deliver this training. MCC Digital have been helping schools with their teacher training and continued professional development for decades, and with new features and products emerging all the time, it is more important than ever for school leadership to ensure their staff are trained on how to utilise this technology in the classroom.
Innovate with Apple
This CPD Track has been designed to ensure your school is aware of all the great features, apps and free resources provided to you when teaching with iPad and Mac. We'll focus on getting the most out of the included apps and work closely with the leadership team to ensure a vision led programme.
Over a 10 day course, ideally spread across a full term, MCC Digital alongside a chosen APLS (Apple Professional Learning Specialist) will cover the full range of possibilities with Apple, and cover the 5 areas of an successful CPD plan.
1. Leadership
3. Curriculum Support
5. APLS Review
2. Teaching
4. Feedback and Assessment
Collaborate with Apple
Once a school has completed their Innovate with Apple CPD Track, our team, alongside school leadership, will have a clear understanding of how to best teach, inspire and empower pupils through the use of technology. The natural next step is to dive deeper into the more technical capabilities of teaching with iPad and Mac.
At MCC Digital, we work with a number of industry leaders to ensure that real world, career skills and abilities are being developed across the country. Putting learners in pole position to succeed in the future. This CPD track has been designed with that in mind. It delves deeper into how we can utilise technology to empower children across the curriculum.
An example of one of the sessions we can run is our STEAM workshops with Sphero and our Podcasting workshops with POLAR.
When booking onto our collaborate track, you'll receive a minimum of 6 full days of workshops, these can be focused on a number of topics, not just those listed above.
Ongoing CPD - Success Track
The key to a long-term successful programme is a series of ongoing Apple Professional Learning workshops. Schools who invest in this method of training see far greater adoption of new tools to enrich teaching and learning, from apps to new accessibility features that can be released throughout the lifecycle of devices.
Whats Next?
Doing great things with Apple Education Programmes.
Apple Distinguished School
Apple Distinguished Schools are centres of leadership and educational excellence that demonstrate Apple’s vision for learning with technology — and we believe they are some of the most innovative schools in the world.
At MCC Digital we are proud to have guided over 20 schools along their journey to becoming Apple Distinguished Schools. The process for selection is tough and your school must show Apple that technology is at the forefront of your teaching and learning, and that most importantly the deliverables you aimed to achieve when choosing Apple as your technology partner have been delivered.
The Apple Distinguished School programme supports school leaders through leadership events, opportunities to engage with experts, and collaboration with peers who share an interest in innovative learning and teaching.
Apple Distinguished Educator
In 1995, Apple created the Apple Distinguished Educators (ADE) programme to recognise primary, secondary and higher education pioneers who are using Apple technology to transform teaching and learning. These are the educators who are looking to change the world. They are active leaders from around the world helping other educators rethink what’s possible with iPad and Mac to make learning deeply personal for every student.
We believe in our educators and we want you to see our ADE's in action, Get in touch and we can set up a visit to one of our Apple Distinguished educators schools!