Our team of qualified teachers in Microsoft Dream Space are passionate about supporting colleagues working in primary, second-level and Youthreach settings when it comes delivery of STEM and digital technology lessons. That’s why we launched the Dream Space Teacher Academies to support teachers on their professional learning journeys and create communities of practice for them to engage with.
The Dream Space Digital Fundamentals Teacher Academy provides teacher professional learning across a variety of STEM and digital programmes. The programme starts with a 3-hour introductory session, available both in-person and online. It then continues with monthly sessions lasting between 1 and 1.5 hours, spanning 4 months.
Session 1: Computational thinking in the digital era
Session 2: Programming fundamentals
Session 3: Cybersavvy with Cybersecurity
Session 4: AI literacy
This program will run twice across the academic year and is open to all primary and post-primary (second-level and Youthreach) educators. Digital badges will be issued to those who complete the course. No pre-requisite knowledge or specific platform access is required to participate.
Registration opens in September 2025
Take your first steps into the world of Artificial Intelligence in education with our comprehensive Dream Space Academic Innovators Academy, designed specifically for teachers at all levels. Over the course of several weeks, you’ll explore the exciting world of AI, learn the fundamentals of prompt engineering, and discover AI tools that boost productivity. You'll also gain experience and access to resources that will help you enhance AI literacy for your students, including how to approach responsible and ethical AI. Upon completion, you’ll earn a digital badge via Credly, showcasing your expertise and commitment to innovative teaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to upskill with transformational technology and support your students in developing future-ready skills.
Registration opens in October 2025
The Dream Space Minecraft Teacher Academy offers professional development for teachers to help them integrate game-based learning using Minecraft Education into their classrooms.
The programme begins with a 3-hour introductory session, available both in person and online. It continues with monthly sessions lasting between 1 and 1.5 hours over a 4-month period. Participants will earn digital badges through MS Learn modules.
This programme runs twice during the academic year and is open to all educators in both formal and informal learning settings. No prior knowledge is required, but access to Minecraft Education is necessary for this course.
Registration opens in November 2025
At Dream Space, we’re proud to collaborate with Universities across Ireland to embed future ready skills into the heart of teacher preparation. From guest lectures to embedded modules and hands-on experiences, we’re supporting Initial Teacher Education faculties to shape confident, creative educators ready to inspire the next generation.
We proudly collaborate with multiple Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers across Ireland to support the development of future educators. Our work with preservice teachers spans early childhood, primary, and post-primary education, ensuring that future-ready skills and STEM-based teaching and learning are embedded from the very beginning of a teacher's journey.
Through dynamic partnerships and collaborations with universities and colleges of education, we deliver a variety of supports tailored to the needs of each programme. This includes guest lectures that introduce preservice teachers to the power of STEM and digital technologies, embedded modules that form part of the curriculum in digital learning and STEM education, and professional learning experiences for lecturers that reflect current practice and pedagogy in digital and STEM education.
Our work with ITE students and staff explores key areas such as STEM integration, digital learning, and computational thinking and coding. We encourage cross-curricular teaching and learning using real-world challenges; enhance confidence and competence in using digital tools for teaching and learning; and introduce preservice teachers to creative and accessible ways to bring coding and problem-solving into the classroom.
Find out more and enquire about this free Dream Space offering by completing this expression of interest form.
These Dream Space Teacher Packages aim to empower teachers to teach content from Dream Space themselves during their classroom time. With digital resources including worksheets, video tutorials and teacher guides, our team have prepared these to support you as you potentially navigate some new areas..
Our Dream Space Teacher packages for primary schools contains two 5-week schemes of work for pupils at a beginner (micro:bit) or intermediate level (Arcade). Lessons within this packages are most suitable for 4th to 6th class students.
Discover how to combine the magic of maker activities with the BBC micro:bit, a microprocessor which students can code (virtual option available for this without physical device) to create different projects and work on their all-important computational thinking skills.
With a strong focus on STEAM education, this teacher package is a set program that will help you teach many curricular areas and concepts using MakeCode Arcade. Pupils will work individually or in small groups to design retro arcade games using the block-based coding platform; Microsoft MakeCode.
Our Dream Space Teacher packages for post-primary Schools contains two 8-week schemes of work for students at a beginner (Arcade) or intermediate level (Python). Lessons within these packages are most suitable for coding or ICT at Junior Cycle; TY Coding or ICT modules as well as at the beginning of the Leaving Cert Computer Science journey.
Learn the basics of retro game design through MakeCode Arcade, a free web-based browser where students can design and develop their own video games. See how Maths, Science, Art, Music and Computer Science all come together in this 8-week scheme of work.
Explore the fundamentals of text-based programming and learn how to innovate and create with one of the world’s most popular and powerful coding languages – Python