25 September 2023
Reading Round the Room Does Not Work; why and what does
19 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : CLIL and Immersion, Philosophy & Practice
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.
17 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Cambridge English for Schools Methodology, Writing
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Cambridge English for Schools Methodology, Speaking and Listening
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Video-based Teaching and Learning
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?
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (G5 - 8) Methodology Philosophy & Practice
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Secondary / High School (G9 - 12) Speaking
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January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Secondary / High School (G9 - 12) Writing
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.
15 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Secondary / High School (G9 - 12) Methodology Philosophy & Practice
Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Early Years (PK - K) Methodology Philosophy & Practice
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Writing in Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (G5 - 8)
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Lower Primary (G1 - 4) Methodology Philosophy & Practice
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.
14 September 2023
"Pets" Field Trips for Early Years (PK - K)
"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" Field Trips for Early Years (PK - K)
"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.
13 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Exploring English Literature
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Writing in Lower Primary
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Active Learning for Early Years and Lower Primary
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Professional Conversations and Governance Issues
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Head of Department and Leadership
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
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Jobsearch Support
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.
12 September 2023
An Introduction to Teaching Narrative Writing
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : International Education
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?
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : English as a Second Language (E2L, ESL), Practice for Teachers
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.
11 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English, Approaches to Learning / Study Skills
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.
09 September 2023
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English, Practice & Feedback
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.
January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English, how the language works
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.
06 September 2023
How are your English as a Second Language Skills?
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?
03 September 2023
Advanced Use of English : just and only