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.
The day before each session, we will send a short text, texts or video relating to the topic to prompt discussion. All viewpoints and experiences are welcome as we solve the world's (educational) problems. A minimum C1-level is assumed.
Tuesday 2 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Do teachers have free speech?
Wednesday 3 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : What should a school do? Problematic issues and student behaviour.
Thursday 4 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Grading, standards and grade inflation : when is a 7 a 7?
Friday 5 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Teacher quality and performance; do "bad" teachers exist?
Monday 8 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Does teacher appearance matter?
Tuesday 9 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Bullying - when, what and who.
Wednesday 10 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Bullying; is the school the bully here?
Thursday 11 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Gifted education, what is it and who deserves it?
Friday 12 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Hot-button issues; is discussing them in the classroom controversial or appropriate?
Monday 15 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Teachers and bias
Tuesday 16 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Student placement : promotion, retention and acceleration
Wednesday 17 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Educating boys; are they the same?
Thursday 18 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Is school "choice" a human right?
Friday 19 January 2024
12.00 - 1.00pm : Is education a public or private good?
Monday 22 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Teacher pay and fairness
Tuesday 23 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Are private schools wealthy?
Wednesday 24 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Is for-profit education bad?
Thursday 25 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : League-tables; publishing SIMCE and PSU results
Friday 26 January 2024
7.30 - 8.30pm : Book-bans, trigger-warnings and sensitive students
Each session $5000 including the teacher self-pay discount; additional multi-session discounts are available. Ask about institutional rates.
Click here to see related sessions and our January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth programme by area.
A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.
These are one-hour synchronous online video conferencing sessions.
These are open enrolment group sessions. Ask us about closed programmes where you choose who, what, where and when.
- Open session group-sizes are limited to allow for participation and questions.
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