Professional Conversations

Professional Conversations and Guided Discussions

Professional Conversations consider an aspect of a topic and usually require a pre-reading, pre-viewing or pre-listening text to orientate participants and to allow for participation and interaction. The session reviews the prompt's explicit and implicit meanings, and then explores some of the points raised, guided by the session facilitator.

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Professional Interests

• Appropriate or Controversial?
• Are private schools wealthy?
• Assessment or Evaluation, same difference?
• Bullying, what happened here?
• Covid, Lockdown and the First Effects on Learning
• Do bad teachers exist?
• Do teachers have free speech?
• Education, a public or private good?
• Foreign, Second or First - the difference matters
• Gifted Education
• Grade inflation, the Harvard problem
• Is for-profit education bad?
• Is it appropriate or controversial? (coming soon)
• Negative effects of reading online (coming soon)
• Performance-related (merit) Pay and Teachers
• Positive Discipline
• School choice, a human right?
• Should you start a business with a friend?
• The problem of "English" for an English teacher (coming soon)
• Teacher appearance, does it matter?
• Teacher Pay, Pay Scales and Fairness
• Teachers and bias
• Teaching boys; they're not the same
• Top 5 Paths to Success for English Teachers, Heads of Department, Academic Directors and Schools in Chile
• What is "English?"
• What should a school do?

Literature Guided Discussions

• Cambridge, IB and AP Literature : Short Stories Knowledge and Understanding
• Cambridge, IB and AP Literature : Short Stories Response and Analysis (coming soon)
• Cambridge, IB and AP Literature : Short Stories Assessment Activities and Practice (coming soon)
• Cambridge, IB and AP Literature : Short Stories Approaches Strategies and Planning (coming soon)
• English Literature : Short Stories (titles listed are also available as "Knowledge and Understanding" Guided Discussions)
• Teaching Literature : poetry "The Eagle" Knowledge and Understanding
• "Journey" by Patricia Grace Knowledge and Understanding
• "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane Knowledge and Understanding
•  "The Stoat" by John McGahern Knowledge and Understanding

An English level of CEFR C1 or higher is assumed and allowances are not made for participants with a lower level. Professional conversations which are offered as a C1/C2 programme include an English language maintenance and development aspect.

To ask about a closed (where you choose who, where, when and session length) or on demand session, to place your name on the interest list for the next open group session or to ask about programme or methodology coaching and short courses, please contact us. 

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