14 January 2021

Short Story "Journey" by Patricia Grace

Our four-part series on this work for students, teachers and those interested in literature. This text comes from the Cambridge English Literature book list, and is also appropriate for IB Language. Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.

10 January 2021

Short Story "The Stoat" by John McGahern

Our four-part series on this work for students, teachers and those interested in literature. This text comes from the Cambridge English Literature book list, and is also appropriate for IB Language. Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.

03 January 2021

Games in the Early Years

Mathematics in the Early Years : Numbers 1 - 100

 
This session gives an introduction to the philosophy and research-based justification of the approach, and provides an overview of the methodologies used. Although the examples given relate to English Language Teaching, the philosophy and approaches are developmentally appropriate for programmes in all languages. Lower Primary (G1 - 4) teachers will also find this useful.

Music and Songs in the Early Years

  

International Certification as an English Language Teacher

 


The Trinity Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ("Trinity Cert") is one of the most highly-regarded English Language Teaching qualifications in the world. Become the English teacher of your dreams with the Trinity Cert.

30 December 2020

Is for-profit education bad?

If education is a human right, or even just a social necessity, should it be provided by the state, by charities or social providers, or should private providers be permitted? And if private operators are permitted, should they also be permitted to make a profit? And if they make a profit, is that bad and does that have a negative effect on the education they provide?

Performance-related (merit) pay and teachers

Merit-pay. Payment for Performance, Payment by Results / Outcomes / KPIs - different names for largely the same thing. We often hear that "schools should be run more like a business" (true in many respects, but not in the way proponents expect) and that teachers should be paid for performance. FInd out why this latter assertion can not work and never has.

Teacher pay, pay scales and fairness

29 December 2020

Study English in the UK


Free thirty-minute seminar on studying English at the Wimbledon School of English.