Open-group preparation for the Cambridge English C1 Advanced (formerly known as "CAE") Examination. We cover knowing and understanding the examination and its components, Practice of & Feedback on each component, and success and preparation strategies. Whether you are registering for the examination, or are considering it and want to know how to succeed, this programme provides what you need to know.
Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices. This text is suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.
Recently, Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years (aka "Very Young Learners") have been widely discussed in both the general and educational media, and several popular approaches have been discredited and debunked. Join us as we review an effective and proven Philosophy and set of Practices to help you get your students reading which does not require intensive investment.
Gross Motor development is not the exclusive domain of Physical Education teachers; English teachers can also use these activities for students to blow off extra steam as they practise their English skills. They are especially useful in Active Learning and experiential learning programmes.
So you've volunteered (or you've been volunteered) for this year's English Day, English Week or English Festival, and you're bereft of ideas. Don't worry. We can help with our 100 Ideas for English Week.
Our four-part series on this moving reflective essay for students, teachers and those interested in literature, and with a passing knowledge of Chemistry. This deeply-poignant. personal and humorous text by one of our most significant contemporary authors was written on the eve of his death; you may know him from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. CLIL, or Content and Language Integrated Learning, is linked to language immersion and to active learning practices. In its simplest form, CLIL is learning through the target language rather than learning of and need not be restricted to Foreign or Second Language Acquisition.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Cambridge English for Schools are EFL examinations and certificates aimed at teens, or Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12) students. They are linked to the same CEFR levels as their main suite siblings, but with more age-appropriate prompts and tasks.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Cambridge English for Schools are EFL examinations and certificates aimed at teens, or Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12) students. They are linked to the same CEFR levels as their main suite siblings, but with more age-appropriate prompts and tasks.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Students spend a significant amount of time on video platforms, but do they know how to "view" critically? Do they have the tools of visual-language criticism, and of multi-modal response and analysis, they really do need in an increasingly visual world?
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Writing is arguably the most important and most challenging of the language modes, and many teachers seek new and different approaches.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Education in the Early Years is critical for develop the attitudes and skills required for elementary level success, and an appropriate programme can do this while also building a strong knowledge base without being overly "academic" nor abandoning our very young learners to their own devices.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Writing in Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8) builds on the foundations of Lower Primary and provides the building blocks for High School.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Lower Primary (G1 - 4) is all about gaining, inculculating and developing the skills and attitudes needed for success in Middle School and beyond. Join us as we explore subject areas and subject skills essential for Lower Primary success and beyond.
"Pets" and "My pet" are common Early Years topics, although finding experiential and out-of-the-classroom learning activities can be challenging. Join us as we explore some Field Trip and Field Trip activity possibilities which you can use to make your programme more lifelike and the contents more relatable for your students.
"Food" and related topics such as "Field to Table" are common Early Years topics, although finding experiential and out-of-the-classroom learning activities can be challenging. Join us as we explore some Field Trip and Field Trip activity possibilities which you can use to make your programme more lifelike and the contents more relatable for your students.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. This series reviews a selection of short texts suitable for both Advanced English and literature students and teachers. These texts are historically and culturally significant and should be read by all "educated" people. They currently appear or have appeared in Cambridge or IB text lists, and are suitable for use with Upper Intermediate High School classes.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Writing in Lower Primary (G1 - 4) builds on Early Years, and prepares for Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 9). Students explore narrative and descriptive writing, planning and writing within constraints, in both online and in-person classes.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Active Learning is a student-centred approach to teaching and learning in which the student is actively engaged with the materials, topics, skills and outcomes. In many respects, active learning is the opposite of a traditional teacher-centred, top-down or "direct" approach.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. 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 Advanced Discussion practice sessions provide just that.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Whether you are a new (in your first two years in the rold) or prospective Head of Department, Co-ordinator or Academic Director, we can help. Even seasoned Heads of Depertment will find ideas and guidance here
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Whether you are looking for a new post or a promotion, teaching or leadership, in Chile or outside, we can help.
Narrative writing is both the entry point for Creative Writing and Fiction, and the best and least challenging vehicle for developing writing and language skills. Join as we review this introductory quick-and-easy teacher-friendly approach to teaching Narrative Writing which can be used at all ages and all levels.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Many schools here in Chile label themselves as "international", but are they? Similarly, many teachers are interested in teaching in an international programme, but what does that mean?
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. English as a Second Language (E2L) is quite distinct from English as a Foreign Language, the national programme here in Chile. Unfortunately the two terms are used quite loosely and often erroneously. Join us as we explore E2L and how it might look in your classroom.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information. Amongst the most important skills we can develop in our students are those variously labelled Approaches to Learning, Learner Autonomy and Study Skills, and as English teachers, we also have our part to play.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. These single-topic Use of English sessions (Vocabulary, Structures and Usages) have been developed from the needs and requests of Chilean Advanced English users.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information.
Chile's National Curriculum is an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) programme, yet many teachers and students are functionally at an English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) level and so an E2L programme would likely be more appropriate. How about you? What are your E2L skills like?
Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or contact us for registration information. The events below are open group sessions from our Seminars, Advanced Use of English and Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private programmes.
Open-group semi-intensive programme, preparation for the Cambridge English C1 Advanced (formerly known as "CAE") Examination. We cover knowing and understanding the examination and its components, Practice of & Feedback on each component, and success and preparation strategies. Whether you are registering for the examination, or are considering it and want to know how to succeed, this programme provides what you need to know.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information.
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information.
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three reading comprehension exercises. Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three note-taking exercises. Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.
Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or contact us for registration information. The events below are open group sessions from our Seminars, Advanced Use of English and Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private programmes.
Effective organisations, such as schools, and organisational units, such as departments, are effective because they have published, available and clear policies and procedures. In short, they have handbooks which define expectations, common language and approaches, historical decisions and precedents, and provide guidance for future actions and decisions.
Teachers often ask how to incorporate learning outside the classroom into their programme, and how to do so cheaply, effectively and in a teacher-friendly way. Field Trips can be the answer, and since houses and homes is a Grade Four topic in the Chilean national curriculum, combining the two does the old two birds and one stone thing.
This session provides four successful, no-cost or low-cost plug-and-play Field Trips, and although aimed at Lower Primary teachers, the activities are also applicable to Middle School and can easily be adapted.
Relations, relationships, relatives, relative, related, in relation to, be related to, the other relations ... international relations or relationships? to be related to or relative to? These are complicated connections. Can you relate? Join us as we explore what looks like an easy distinction. Spoiler alert. It's not.
