Short Story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury​

 

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.

Short Story "Secrets" by Bernard MacLaverty​

 

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.

Short Story "The Moving Finger" by Edith Wharton

 

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.

Leadership Philosophy & Practice : departmental finances

 

Middle managers often have a financial function in connection with their area : budgetary (planning) and control (oversight). Sometimes they have reporting requirements and or responsibility for their area's financial performance. This session reviews typical income and expense items, things to look out for and how to succeed when it comes to the $$$.

Events March 2021

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Introduction to the Cambridge Upper Secondary and Advanced Programmes

Cambridge Upper Secondary and Cambridge Advanced from Cambridge International are the third and fourth stages on the Cambridge Pathway and are usually offered in G9 - 12 or High School. Cambridge Upper Secondary is often the programme for the end of (compulsory) education, and Cambridge Advanced is typically a university preparation and selection programme.

Formative Assessment

 

Differentiating between Assessment and Evaluation is critical to effective teaching; the former is often called formative and is a teaching approach, the latter summative and it is used for measurement and reporting. This series of related sessions explores the Philosophy & Practice of assessment for learning.

Positive Education

 

Professional, philosophical and methodological seminars related to Positive Education.

COVID Learning Loss - a survey of the reports

 

While it is stll "too early to tell", emerging evidence suggests that Covid-19 and responses to Covid-19 have had deletrious effects on student learning. What are those effects, and what might this mean for teaching and learning in the short and medium term? 

Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback - gerund or infinitive

 

A particular bugbear for Chilean students and teachers of English, knowing when, how and why to use gerunds or infinitives can be challenging. In fact, this is so challenging that we have created three challenge levels, and to date, no-one has scored 100% on any. Will you be the first?

This Practice & Feedback approach comprises a series of tasks to identify areas of doubts, and then explorations of the patterns behind the appropriate responses.