October update :
September is when we plan our December and January professional development and personal growth programmes :
• one-day closed in-school programmes
• one-hour open single-topic / single-skill programmes
What would you like us to offer? Please let us know by email or by commenting below. Keep reading for some of the topics and areas we have offered in the past :
The opposite of an adjective is not always what it seems, for example the opposite of hot may not be cold. Some words have several opposites with quite different meanings such as happy, not happy and unhappy or satisfied, unsatisfied and dissatisfied. This session reviews several of these words, and the significant distinctions available to the advanced speaker.
Teachers have little time in class and rarely enough to cover the syllabus, prepare for external assesments, or to do the important stuff like sharing, helping others and being kind (not to mention sun safety, financial literacy and civics). Accordingly, certain things may best be assigned to time out of class, in particular lesson preparation (lucratively re-packaged as "flipped instruction").
Numbers and expressions for things we count pop up in all kinds of unexpected places, and an advanced user should be able to navigate these. Many would have originally been encountered in high school mathematics or science, but if that happened in a language other than English ... Added to that are historical or figurative oddities, and frankly just odd usages, which make English so rich and such a challenge.
Children in the Early Years (or PK - K) are well aware of the parts of things, also known as "fractions", and teachers should take advantage of this awareness to further develop essential concepts of number relationships. 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.
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Click here to see the January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth programme by Area.
Scroll down for the list of Areas included in this year's programme. Click on the Area title(s) to see the sessions by date and time.
Click here to see the January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth programme by date.
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Talking about death is not always easy or welcome and English speakers have developed several ways of doing so without being too direct. Session I looks at literal uses of "die" and its related forms. Sessions II and III consider metaphorical uses, some euphemistic and some a little bizarre.
These advanced-vocabulary one-hour single-topic sessions focus on accuracy, appropriacy and on developing the speaker's range, while considering the many different forms, meanings and usages, both literal and metaphorical.
