Literacy Courses for Primary Teachers

Literacy Courses for Teachers Guided by Classroom Action

• Price: $200 AUD per year (2 months free)

The ICT in Education Teacher Academy membership gives primary educators access to literacy courses for teachers through a structured professional development pathway called the Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation (TILJT). This pathway acts as your personalised CPD journey, guiding you through milestone-based learning that strengthens literacy teaching while developing digital literacy training for teachers.

As a member, you access literacy courses by:

• Choosing your starting stage in the Success Path based on your current capability

• Selecting a milestone you want to achieve in your teaching

• Following the milestone action prompts, which direct you to the literacy courses and classroom strategies connected to that milestone

• Using the Wisdom Tool to ask questions and find answers linked to the training

• Engaging with the community to refine ideas and strengthen your teaching practice

This process ensures every course you access has a clear purpose and classroom application, helping you strengthen literacy instruction while building confidence with technology through your personalised digital literacy training for teachers.

Year 5 Literacy with ICT in Education Course

You will learn how to integrate ICT with Year 5 literacy skills, empowering learners for the digital age. This workshop covers analysing your current practices, building ICT confidence, and planning forward with new strategies. Explore digital literacy competencies, apply innovative approaches in the classroom, and assess 21st-century skills. Gain practical, actionable methods to embed ICT capability across the curriculum and inspire your students' learning.

PD Hours: 10
Benefits: 

APST: 2.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.4.2

What CPD Looks Like in the Membership:

🟢 When a member joins…
They might begin by asking the Wisdom Tool: “How do I integrate technology meaningfully into Year 5 English?”

They’re directed to this course and begin with the downloadable eBook or workshop replay.

🟠 What they learn first…
They reflect on their current practices using the Workbook’s Teaching Reflection Sheet and identify their position in the Success Path—typically at Adaptation.

🔵 What they apply…

• Plan a persuasive podcasting activity using the Lesson Planning Template

• Align to English outcomes with the Curriculum Mapping Sheet

• Assess student ICT capability using the Observation Guide

🟣 How the workbook supports them…

• TPACK Radar Chart tracks confidence across digital, pedagogical, and content skills

• Reflection Log helps them evaluate student outcomes

• Community Reflection Prompts help guide next steps

🟡 How the community helps…
They share student podcast samples and get peer feedback on publishing tools, scaffolding for EAL/D learners, and lesson extensions.

✅ Success Path Milestone: Adaptation → Infusion → early Transformation

Year 4 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

You will learn how to integrate ICT with Year 4 literacy skills, exploring visual literacy, storytelling, and student voice. This course builds your confidence in using animation tools and digital illustrations to enhance comprehension and engagement.

PD Hours: 10
Benefits: 

APST Focus Areas: 2.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.4.2

What CPD Looks Like:

🟢 When a member joins…
They find this course in the Members' Library, or are directed to it after using the Wisdom Tool with a query like: “How can I use animation in writing tasks?”

🟠 What they learn first…
They explore multimodal writing and digital illustration strategies. Using the Workbook’s Planning Guide, they map out a story animation task.

🔵 What they apply…

• Choose from recommended apps to create animated narratives

• Plan using the Lesson Plan Pro Forma

• Record outcomes using the Observation Guide

🟣 Workbook guidance…

• Reflection Log helps evaluate what engaged learners

• Curriculum Link Sheet ensures alignment with Year 4 content

• Peer Feedback Log supports adaptation

🟡 How the community helps…
Members suggest tools for lower-ability students and share how they scaffolded storyboard writing.

✅ Success Path Milestone: Adoption → Adaptation

Year 3 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

This workshop helps you integrate ICT into comprehension and retelling tasks. You'll learn how to use digital timelines, audio narration, and collaborative tools to support critical literacy outcomes in Year 3.

PD Hours: 10
Benefits: 

APST Focus Areas: 2.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.4.2

What CPD Looks Like:

🟢 When a member joins…
They’re exploring how to make retelling more interactive and are guided by the Wisdom Tool or Member Library to this course.

🟠 What they learn first…
They identify the learning intention and select a sample activity from the eBook that uses voice recordings and sequencing visuals.

🔵 What they apply…

• Design a retelling task using voice and image

• Use the Workbook’s Curriculum Map

• Record student use of digital tools in the Observation Table

🟣 Workbook guidance…

• Technological Knowledge (TK) prompts guide planning

• TPACK Radar Chart is used after trialling the activity

• Reflection Prompts support tracking of outcomes

🟡 How the community helps…
They share their lesson and ask for ideas to extend the task for higher-order thinking or integrate it with HASS.

✅ Success Path Milestone: Adaptation → Infusion

Year 2 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

Focus on using technology to build basic writing and viewing skills in Year 2. You'll explore captioning, digital storyboards, and visual language tools to support early authorship and sentence structure.

PD Hours: 10

APST Focus Areas: 2.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.4.2

What CPD Looks Like:

🟢 When a member joins…
They’re new to ICT integration and looking for writing supports that are engaging but manageable.

🟠 What they learn first…
They review sample activities like digital sentence builders and image captions, and identify what suits their students.

🔵 What they apply…

• Use photo and text tools for a narrative retell

• Align with English content using the Curriculum Link Template

• Track student ICT use in the Observation Guide

🟣 Workbook guidance…

• Tech Knowledge checklist helps evaluate lesson planning

• Peer Feedback Page is used after trialling the lesson

• Reflection Log captures challenges and wins

🟡 How the community helps…
They ask for app suggestions that suit limited-device classrooms and get suggestions for offline adaptation.

✅ Success Path Milestone: Adoption → Adaptation

Year 1 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

• Price: ICT in Education Teacher Academy

Help students move from oral to written language with drawing apps, voice tools, and image-based sequencing. Learn how to foster early writing and comprehension through accessible digital tools.

PD Hours: 10

APST Focus Areas: 2.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.4.2

What CPD Looks Like:

🟢 When a member joins…
They want to integrate technology but aren’t sure what’s developmentally appropriate.

🟠 What they learn first…
The workshop shows how digital drawing and audio storytelling support sentence structure and sequencing.

🔵 What they apply…

• Plan a sequencing story using drawing apps

• Capture learning in the Workbook’s Planning Template

• Use observation tools to track early ICT use

🟣 Workbook guidance…

• Reflection prompts support consideration of student engagement

• Technological Knowledge section helps refine the activity

• Community prompt templates assist with feedback

🟡 How the community helps…
They share how students responded to using tablets and ask how to scale the task for reluctant writers.

✅ Success Path Milestone: Adoption → Adaptation

Digital Literacy Training for Teachers Through the TILJT CPD Pathway

Teaching literacy in primary classrooms increasingly involves digital texts, multimedia communication, online research, and collaborative writing tools. For this reason, effective literacy teaching now requires ongoing digital literacy training for teachers so educators can confidently integrate technology into reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities.

Inside the ICT in Education Teacher Academy, this training is delivered through the Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation (TILJT) — a structured professional development pathway that connects literacy teaching with purposeful use of technology. Rather than learning digital tools in isolation, teachers develop their skills through milestone-based learning that links technology directly to classroom literacy outcomes.

Each milestone in the pathway includes action prompts that guide teachers to relevant courses, strategies, and classroom applications. These prompts encourage teachers to explore how digital tools can support literacy development, experiment with new approaches in their classroom, and reflect on how technology strengthens student engagement and communication.

As teachers progress through the pathway, they gradually build confidence in integrating digital tools into literacy teaching. This ensures that professional learning is not simply about understanding technology, but about using it intentionally to improve reading comprehension, writing development, vocabulary growth, and student communication.

Through this process, digital literacy training for teachers becomes part of everyday teaching practice — helping educators strengthen literacy learning while preparing students to communicate, create, and think critically in a digital world.

ICT Courses for Teachers That Strengthen Literacy Teaching

As teachers deepen their digital literacy training, they also develop practical ICT capability. The ICT in Education Teacher Academy supports this through targeted ICT courses for teachers that help educators confidently use technology to support reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking in primary classrooms.

These courses focus on developing the knowledge and teaching strategies required to use digital tools purposefully in literacy learning. Teachers explore how technology can support activities such as analysing digital texts, creating multimedia writing projects, facilitating collaborative communication, and guiding students to research and organise information effectively.

Through this process, educators strengthen both their literacy teaching and their confidence with digital technologies. Rather than learning isolated technical skills, teachers develop the professional capability to use ICT as a meaningful teaching tool that improves engagement, creativity, and literacy development in primary education.

ICT Workshops for Teachers That Deepen Classroom Practice

Developing ICT capability is only one part of effective professional learning. Teachers also need opportunities to explore new ideas, reflect on their teaching, and see how technology can be used to support meaningful learning experiences.

Inside the ICT in Education Teacher Academy, this happens through ICT workshops for teachers that focus on practical teaching strategies and classroom implementation.

These workshops explore how digital technologies can be integrated into everyday teaching and learning across subjects such as literacy, numeracy, problem-solving, and creative expression. Rather than focusing on tools alone, each workshop examines how technology can support the way children explore ideas, communicate their thinking, and collaborate with others.

For example, teachers may explore how programmable toys support early problem-solving and sequencing skills as children guide a device through a nature-based coding path or design their own challenges for peers to solve. Activities such as these help children develop reasoning, collaboration, and creativity while interacting with digital technologies.

Other workshops examine how digital drawing tools and interactive whiteboards can be used to support children’s understanding of concepts such as shapes, encouraging them to design images, experiment with colours and sizes, and communicate mathematical ideas visually.

Through these professional learning workshops, teachers begin to see how ICT can enhance inquiry, creativity, and communication in their classroom. This helps educators move beyond simply using digital tools and towards designing learning experiences where technology supports children’s exploration and thinking.

ICT Training Courses for Teachers That Support Continuous Professional Growth

Professional learning is most effective when it supports teachers over time, allowing them to deepen their understanding, refine their practice, and gradually expand the ways they integrate technology into teaching and learning. For this reason, the ICT in Education Teacher Academy provides ICT training courses for teachers that support ongoing professional development rather than one-off learning experiences.

These training courses allow educators to continue strengthening their teaching strategies as they explore new areas of technology integration. Teachers learn how digital tools can support inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and communication across a range of classroom activities. As they progress through different training topics, they develop greater confidence in selecting and using technologies that align with their learning goals.

Through this structured professional learning, teachers are able to revisit and refine their classroom practices, building on what they have already explored through earlier courses and workshops. This encourages educators to continuously evaluate how technology supports children’s thinking, problem-solving, and expression in meaningful ways.

Over time, this ongoing ICT training for teachers helps educators move beyond occasional use of technology and towards purposeful integration that strengthens teaching and learning across the curriculum.

ICT Training for Teachers That Strengthens Technology Integration in the Classroom

Effective ICT training for teachers is not simply about learning how to use digital tools. It is about developing the professional judgement needed to select technology that enhances teaching and supports meaningful learning experiences for students.

Within the ICT in Education Teacher Academy, this training helps educators strengthen their ability to design learning experiences where technology supports inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and communication. Teachers build confidence in integrating ICT across different areas of the curriculum while reflecting on how digital tools influence student engagement and understanding.

Through ongoing professional learning, educators refine their ability to plan lessons that combine curriculum knowledge, pedagogy, and technology in purposeful ways. This enables teachers to design activities where students explore ideas through digital storytelling, solve problems using programmable devices, investigate concepts using multimedia resources, and communicate their thinking through digital creation tools.

Over time, this type of ICT training for teachers strengthens the way technology is used in the classroom. Rather than being an occasional add-on, ICT becomes a natural and purposeful part of teaching practice—supporting deeper learning, encouraging creativity, and helping students develop the digital capabilities they need for the future.

For many educators, the ICT in Education Teacher Academy becomes the place where this transformation occurs: a professional learning environment where teachers continue refining their practice, exploring new strategies, and strengthening the way technology supports teaching and learning.