January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Speaking Practice

Maintaining range and fluency while teaching beginners or younger learners is at best challenging, and many if not most teachers have been unable to manage either or both in today's reality. We all need adult conversation, and these session provide just that. Each session is a guided discussion so prior reading and consideration is helpful, and the sharing of personal views and experiences expected. 

Advanced Speaking Practice

Monday 3 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Do teachers have free speech?
Tuesday 4 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : What should a school do? Problematic issues and student behaviour.
Wednesday 5 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Grade inflation : when is a 7 a 7?
Thursday 6 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Do "bad" teachers exist?
Friday 7 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Friday news roundup (major headlines from the day(s) prior)

Monday 10 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Does teacher appearance matter?
Tuesday 11 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Bullying : when, what and who.
Wednesday 12 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : GIfted education, what is it and who receives it?
Thursday 13 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Is it controversial or appropriate?
Friday 14 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Friday news roundup (major headlines from the day(s) prior)

Monday 17 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Teachers and bias.
Tuesday 18 January 2022 1.30 - 2.30pm : Student placement : promotion, retention and acceleration
Wednesday 19 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Educating boys, are they the same?
Thursday 20 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Is school "choice" a human right?
Friday 21 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Friday news roundup (major headlines from the day(s) prior)

Monday 24 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Is education a public or private good?  
Tuesday 25 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Teacher pay and fairness.
Wednesday 26 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Are private schools wealthy?
Thursday 27 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Is for-profit education bad?
Friday 28 January 1.30 - 2.30pm : Friday news roundup (major headlines from the day(s) prior)

Each session $5000, including the teacher self-pay discount with additional multi-session discounts also available. Ask about institutional rates. Contact us for registration information.

An audio, visual or written prompt is sent to participants prior to the session for review and preparation.

The goal of these sessions is confidence and fluency so accuracy will not be addressed, unless it interferes.

Online via Meet.

A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

Group size minima and maxima apply.

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