January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Week One (30 December - 3 January)

 

Welcome to our fifth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. 

Click on the session title(s) for more information. 

This page may be updated so please let us know of your interest in a specific area or session by completing the Contact Us form to the right, or please check back.

Thursday 2 January 2025

9.00 - 10.00am : Leadership : Leading a Department, an overview

10.30 - 11.30am : Teaching Writing / Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : 

Advanced Editing & Proofreading Practice & Feedback 

12.00 - 1.00pm : Advanced Reading Comprehension (EFL) Practice & Feedback

1.30 - 2.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : the making of made 

3.00 - 4.00pm : Introduction to Cambridge International Education

4.30 - 5.30pm :  ABC (insert English certificate name here) is not for life

6.00 - 7.00pm :  All the IB Diploma Englishes : English A Literature, English A Language & Literature, English B, Extended Essay 

7.30 - 8.30pm : Professional Conversations : Appropriate or Controversial?

Friday 3 January 2025

9.00 - 10.00am : Leadership : Mind Your Language, defining your Department's Mission 

10.30 - 11.30am : Teaching Writing / Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Don't use a dummy 

12.00 - 1.00pm : Advanced Reading Comprehension (EFL) Practice & Feedback 

1.30 - 2.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Vocabulary : sit, seat, sitting, seating

3.00 - 4.00pm : All the Cambridge Englishes : Cambridge Foreign Language English, Cambridge Second Language English, Cambridge First Language English, Cambridge English Literature

4.30 - 5.30pm : Foreign, Second or First - the difference matters

6.00 - 7.00pm : Assessment for Learning is the future; Evaluation of Learning is the past

7.30 - 8.30pm : Professional Conversations : Do bad teachers exist?

Each session $6000 with discounts for 5, 10, 20 etc sessions. Complete the Contact Us form to the right for registration information, for institutional and group rates, and to ask about our February 2025 programme. This page may be updated so please let us know of your interest in a specific area or session by completing the Contact Us form to the right, or please check back.

• These are one-hour synchronous online video-conferencing sessions. These open enrolment group sessions are limited in size to allow for participation and questions. Minimum group sizes apply. Ask us about closed programmes where you choose who, what, where and when. A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

• Click on the label(s) to the right for related programmes.

• Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right

• if the date and time of any sessions are not convenient, to ask about an "on demand" session on a different date and at a different time.
• to be placed on the interest list for any of these topics and to receive advance notice of the next open-group session.
• to ask about a private one-to-one or small-group closed session on any of these topics, or on any other Advanced English and English teaching & learning and evaluation concerns you have.
• if you would like to receive our once or twice a week event announcements. We will not spam you and you can leave the email-list at any time.
• with any queries about any of our programmes.

Ask us about programmes of support for you and your colleagues during the academic year where you choose who, what, where and when. Simply complete the "Contact Us" form to the right to start the conversation.

This page may be updated so please let us know of your interest in a specific area or session by completing the Contact Us form to the right, or please check back.

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