Seminars

A seminar is a sharing of information with only a little time for discussion, audience questions or audience interaction. The seminars below are each one-hour in length. Please click on the title below for more information or the seminar flier. 

• A Standards-based Lesson Plan
• Active Learning, an introduction
• Advanced Use of English
  
• Blended Learning - what is it and what is it not?
• Covid Learning Loss, a survey of the reports
• English has no future; talking about tomorrow
• Formative Asessment : Writing
• Introduction to the Cambridge Primary Programme
• Positive Assessment, an overview
• Postive Discipline, an overview
• Project-based Learning, an overview
• School Accreditation, Programme Authorisation : what are they and what is involved? (coming soon)
• School Choice in Chile
• School Finance and why it is not simple (coming soon)
• Standards-based Teaching and Learning
• Teaching Commentary Skills
• Teaching Internationally, an introduction for Chilean teachers
• Teaching Literature : Planning a Novel Unit
• Teaching Visual Language
• Visual Language, an overview (coming soon)
• Vocabulary-based English teaching; an effective approach
• What is international education?

Early Years

• Assessment in the Early Years (coming soon)
• Developing Executive Function in the Early Years
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) (coming soon)
• Free Stuff for the Early Years
• Games for the Early Years (coming soon)
• Learning Centres (coming soon)
• Lesson Planning for the Early Years
• Mathematics in the Early Years, Numbers 1 - 100
• Mathematics in the Early Years, Activities 1 - 31
• Mathematics in the Early Years, Activities 1 - 60
• Mathematics in the Early Years, Activities 1 - 100
• Music and Songs for the Early Years (coming soon)
• Tabletop Science for the Early Years (coming soon)
• Writing in the Early Years

Lower Primary

• Descriptive Writing
• Fantasy Writing
• Narrative Writing
• Lower Primary Writing

Middle Management and Leadership

• Departmental Finances
• Developing and Implementing a Department Handbook
• English Week
• A step-by-step how-to guide
• Fifty activity ideas 

• Effective Recruitment Practices
• Leading a Department, an overview
• Mind Your Language
• Programme Matters for Heads of Department (coming soon)
• Programme Standards and Assessment for Heads of Department (coming soon)
• Staff Supervision, Assessment and Evaluation for Heads of Department (coming soon)
• Teacher Evaluation v Teacher Appraisal
• Top 5 Paths to Success as a Head of Department 
• Widening your Departmental Footprint

Speaking

• Effective Discussion Skills : useful language
• Effective Pairwork Methodology
• ELT Pairwork activities for A1/A2 and/or Young Learners
• Group Oral Test Methodology
• Quick and Easy Oral Assessment
• Teaching and Assessing Individual Oral Presentations
• The Five Features of "Voice"; improving oral production for teachers and advanced learners

Writing

• Editing and Tidy Writing
• Summing
• Condensing
• Summarising
• Teaching Writing Methodology
• Teaching Writing PK - 12, an overview
• Writing in the Early Years
• Writing in Lower Primary
• Descriptions
• Essays
• Formal Letters
• Paragraphs

An English level of CEFR C1 or higher is assumed and allowances are not made for attendees with a lower level.

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

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