Apple Professional Learning (APL)
APL Specialist
Apple Professional Learning (APL) partners with schools and universities to develop personalised professional learning plans that support learning, teaching, deployment, and leadership with Apple technology. Our Specialists and Providers inspire, coach, and lead educators toward learning innovation and improved student outcomes. As fellow educators, APL Specialists apply research-based practice and work side-by-side with leaders, teachers, and IT to build confidence and advance their learning and teaching goals.
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.
By bringing an expert to your school, you’ll cultivate learning environments that address the needs of all learners and help create innovative approaches to curriculum and assessment.
Specialists tailor support through a comprehensive set of offerings helping educators on their learning journey from skill acquisition to instructional innovation.
Going further, education leaders work with Specialists to build leadership capacity with executive coaching and strategic planning, while IT teams can get support help connect technology implementations to teaching and learning.
APLS Offerings
Build basic knowledge, skills and confidence of teachers in the use of Apple technology and engage them on the path to Apple Teacher recognition.
Explore Everyone Can Create and Everyone Can Code and support teachers to integrate technology into their curriculum. Facilitate the opportunity for teachers to reflect and document their practices and gain Apple Teacher Portfolio recognition.
Go further with Apple technology with augmented reality, coding and app development and Apple’s professional creativity tools to deepen understanding and enable innovation.
Work side-by-side side with educators to enact continual, active and reflective coaching cycles. Facilitate job-embedded support through co-teaching, in-class modelling, curriculum planning and one-to-one or small-group coaching sessions.
Support leadership teams with workshops and coaching experiences to develop a shared vision, set goals, build capacity and develop a school culture to enable technology-inspired change across the their organisation.
Build capacity in schools through equipping teacher and student champions with the skills and resources to serve as in-house skills consultants in the use of Apple devices and apps for learning and teaching.
Support schools to conduct research to gather data and measure the impact of technology on learning and teaching in their context. Determine areas of strength and areas that need further support and development.
Introduce school leaders, teachers, and IT teams to best-in- class deployment and management of Apple technology to make a positive impact on teaching and learning goals.