Quick and Easy Oral Assessment

 

Oral production spans individual presentations to large audiences to one-on-one discussions, with pair and groupwork in between, and students and teachers often find assessing oral activities daunting and demanding. It need not be, and this seminar shows how.

Leadership Philosophy & Practice : Evaluating Teachers (v Staff Appraisal)

Heads of Department, Co-ordinators and Academic Directors have two conflicting supervision functions. They are required to evaluate their colleagues, or to play a part in the evaluation process, and at the same time to support and develop them. This is something of a knife-edge, and frequently harms a mid-level leader's position. This session considers these two conflicting roles, how to separate them and a possible strategy to manage both.

Events April 2021

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Literary Circles - "The Stoat" by John McGahern

A Literary Circle is a guided discussion about a literary work, reviewing its surface meanings and exploring what lies beyond, why a work is significant, why it lasts and what it can show us about ourselves and each other.

Literary Circles - "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

 

A Literary Circle is a guided discussion about a literary work, reviewing its surface meanings and exploring what lies beyond, why a work is significant, why it lasts and what it can show us about ourselves and each other.

Widening your Departmental Footprint

 

Heads of Department are usually also responsible for promoting their Subject Area in the school and in the wider community, and of course for displaying and celebrating their students' and colleagues' efforts and successes. This session reviews some common and less obvious ways of doing so.

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 $$$.