Restorative Practices Online Summer Course for Teachers 2025

Early bird concessions are available until 17 May 2025!

Co-authored by Primary and Post-Primary teachers and Restorative Practices Practitioners and Experts to provide a practical, useful and informative summer course for you.

This training is proven to build your skills and confidence for actively developing good relationships in schools, preventing the escalation of conflict, resolving conflict, and addressing the harm caused by wrongdoing in a healthy manner.

Course Overview:

• Provide participants with knowledge and understanding of the use of Restorative Practices (RP) in schools;

• Equip participants to use lives to support their teaching practice;

• Equip participants to use RP to support their work and life outside the classroom;

• Inspire and enable participants to use restorative skills in their work and lives;

• Provide an introduction to the philosophy and processes of Restorative Practices (RP) in schools and to the evidence from Irish and international research of how RP can support the aims of the Primary and Secondary Curriculum; i.e. to enable the child to develop as a social being through living and cooperating with others and so contribute to the good of society.

• A key course objective will be to explore the potential of a Restorative approach for creating and maintaining a positive relational environment in the classroom and school as a whole.

• The language and processes practiced throughout the week will enable teachers to gain skills identified as national priorities for the Summer Course Programme 2025, i.e., skills for School Self-Evaluation (SSE) and that will support teachers in imparting SPHE related skills (including competencies in dealing with bullying and the development of child well-being).

• The steps and mechanisms for implementing a whole-school approach to RP that supports the process of School Self Evaluation will be a key component of the course.

• Participants will be supported to examine how restorative skills can support effective and highly effective teaching and learning practices in the achievement of standards identified under Domains Three and Four of the Digital Learning Frameworks for Primary and Post Primary Schools.

This course is approved by the Department of Education and Skills;

• 1 online course – 3 EPV days entitlement

• Begins: Tuesday 1st July 2025 and must be completed by Friday 22nd of August 2025 at 5.00pm;

• Approximately 20 hours of study;

• Participants must engage with the online forums;

• Complete this course at a pace that suits you;

• Assignments for each module must be completed;

• When you have successfully completed your course you will receive your CPD Certificate.

• Closing date for registration is 31st July 2025.