Maker{Futures} - Getting Started with Maker{School}

Getting Started with

A Practical Online Course for Educators

🎉 Special Offer: FREE for the first 100 educators

Be part of the very first cohort starting 14th April 2026

We are holding an online information session for teachers interested in Maker{School}

Tuesday 24th March 12:30 - 13:00 and Wednesday 25th March 16:00 - 16:30 (UK time)

Become a Maker{School} Educator

This course helps you introduce maker education using the Maker{School} Approach™, even if you’re new to making or working with limited resources.

Why join this course?

✔ Research-informed Maker{School} Approach™

✔ Four short, flexible online modules

✔ Three simple classroom projects

✔ Real examples from Maker{School} educators

✔ Create a makerspace on any budget

✔ Work at your own pace

✔ Earn the Maker{School}™ Educator Award

What you will learn

The Maker{School} Approach™: Understand the principles, research and pedagogy behind effective maker education.

Practical steps to get started: Learn the small changes that make a big difference — introducing tools, materials, and creative habits.

Create a Makerspace (on any budget!): Discover how schools have created highly effective maker environments using low-cost and recycled materials.

Voices from Maker{School} educators: See how others have embedded making in their classrooms and what they learned along the way.

Resources and projects: Get access to ready-to-use resources PLUS three guided classroom projects.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for educators supporting early years and primary learners wanting to build confidence in Maker Education, including:

👩‍🏫 Early years & primary teachers
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Teaching assistants
🏫 Headteachers & Senior leaders
🌱 Special education educators
🏡 Home educators

Note: Learners must be based in an educational setting, as the course includes classroom projects.

Course structure

⭐ Online learning (4 Mini-Modules)

Each approx. 1 hour long — complete at your own pace.

⭐ Three practical classroom based projects

Hands-on activities to apply what you’ve learned in your setting.

⭐ Final portfolio

Showcase your practice, reflections, and impact.
Complete within a month — or take up to a year.

Certification

On completion of all modules and the portfolio, you'll receive the Maker{School}™ Educator Award.

Get started

First 100 places FREE!

Starting on April 14th 2026

What our schools say...

St Joseph's Catholic Academy

Sheffield, UK

"What’s been truly remarkable about Maker{School} is the unexpected impact it has had on inclusion. One of the most powerful examples is a group of boys who were vulnerable to exclusion—disengaged, struggling to connect with the curriculum, and often on the edge of classroom life. The Maker{School} approach has given them a different way in. Suddenly, learning became practical, creative, and meaningful... They found success in designing, building, collaborating—and with that success came confidence, motivation, and a sense of belonging. Now in upper KS2, these same boys are thriving—not just in Maker sessions, but across the curriculum. Their behaviour, attendance, and engagement have been transformed. The programme hasn’t just prepared them for the future. It’s given them a real place in the present."

Debra McFarlane, Headteacher

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