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.
Click on the session title(s) for more information. Complete the Contact Us form to the right (or click here) for registration information. In no particular order ...
- Appropriate or Controversial? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 5 January 2026
- Do bad teachers exist? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 6 January 2026
- Do teachers have free speech? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 7 January 2026
- Education, a public or private good? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 8 January 2026
- Is for-profit education bad? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 9 January 2026
- Performance-related (merit) Pay and Teachers : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 12 January 2026
- Teachers and bias : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 13 January 2026
- Teaching boys; they're not the same : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 14 January 2026
- Teacher appearance, does it matter? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 15 January 2026
- What should a school do? Problematic issues and student behaviour : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 16 January 2026
- A liberal education or liberalism in education : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 19 January 2026
- Take politics out of education : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 20 January 2026
- "Mixed-ability" or ability-grouping : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 21 January 2026
- Gifted education, what is it and who deserves it? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 22 January 2026
- Student placement : promotion, retention and acceleration : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 23 January 2026
- League-tables - publishing SIMCE and PAES results : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 26 January 2026
- Grading, standards and grade inflation : when is a 7 a 7? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 27January 2026
- Bullying; is the school the bully here? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 28January 2026
- Book-bans, trigger-warnings and sensitive students : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 29 2026
- Uniforms; dress for success? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 30 January 2026
These one-hour, synchronous, online, video-conferencing 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.
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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 Educaitonal Governance or Professional Issues concerns you have.
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- 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. Click here to go to our January 2026 main page.
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