Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Courses: In-Person (UAE) & Online

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps teachers, nursery staff, nannies, and support teams stay current and confident.
With QuEST, you can train in our face to face in UAE or online sessions with clear learning outcomes and a certificate of completion.

Live Courses

Online Courses

Online Courses — Live (Zoom)

Real-time sessions with our trainer. Join from anywhere.

Enjoying Storytelling

Thu, Jan 22

Live session via Zoom

This CPD course highlights storytelling’s importance, offering ideas and activities that build practitioners’ confidence to engage children through interactive book sharing, prop-supported tales, and techniques that boost listening, speaking, and participation.

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Embedding Physical Development into Everyday Practice

Wed, Jan 28

Live Session via Zoom

Embedding Physical Development in EYFS promotes children’s growth throughout the day, not just outdoors. We will explore its importance, audit daily opportunities, suggest routine changes, and demonstrate adult-led activities.

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Risky Play

Mon, Feb 02

Live Session via Zoom

This session explores risky play, its benefits, practical management strategies, and ways to engage parents, helping educators confidently create safe, developmentally enriching environments where children thrive through supported, challenging experiences.

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Managing Difficult Conversations

Thu, Feb 12

Centro Hotel Al Barsha

Leadership Breakfast Dubai with Emma—Face-to-Face. As managers, we often have difficult and uncomfortable conversations with staff and parents. This workshop will provide you with the required skills to tackle these conversations effectively and with confidence.

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Enabling Environments

Thu, Feb 26

Live session via Zoom

This CPD course explores how learning environments shape children, guiding practitioners to assess indoor and outdoor spaces, consider practical needs, and plan changes that create truly enabling settings for every child.

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Supporting Children to Manage their Emotions

Mon, Mar 02

Live session via Zoom

This session helps practitioners understand how emotions connect to brain development and relationships, develop children’s emotional language, set realistic behaviour expectations, and use practical strategies to support children in managing and understanding big emotions.

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Supporting your Staff’s Emotional Health and Well-being

Wed, Mar 11

Centro Hotel Al Barsha

Leadership Breakfast Dubai with Emma - Face-to-Face. This CPD explores staff well-being, challenges affecting welfare, leadership impact, and practical methods to assess, plan, and improve well-being across the setting to create supportive environments.

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Supporting Bilingual Children

Thu, Mar 12

Live session via Zoom

This CPD supports Early Years Practitioners working with bilingual children and families, offering strategies to organise classrooms, enhance communication, introduce English without losing home languages, and confidently guide and empower bilingual parents.

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