Active Learning Mathematics : Fractions

From a young age, the Early Years (or PK - K), children are well aware of things in parts, also known as "fractions", and teachers should take advantage of this awareness to further develop these essential concepts of number relationships. 

Active Learning Mathematics : Numbers 1 - 31

This session is rooted in the Philosophies and Practices of Active Learning and of Developmentally Appropriate Practice, and provides plug-and-play, tried and true activities for teaching numbers 1 - 31. Although the examples given relate to teaching Mathematics in English, they are appropriate for programmes in other languages. Lower Primary (G1 - 4) teachers will also find this useful.

Planning and Running English Week

English teachers are often tasked with running "English Day" or "English Week" with little or no guidance, while even those with experience look for support and new ideas. These sessions provide a road-map to a successful English Week (or Day) and ideas you can incorporate into yours.

October 2021

 

Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or contact us for registration information. These are open sessions from our Seminars, Advanced Use of English and Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling on demand or closed programmes. This page is updated twice a week so please check back, or contact us to be placed on the emailing list for event announcements.

Teaching in the USA, information for Chilean teachers

Are you a Chilean teacher interested in or thinking of teaching in the USA? Second-semester (January) starts for exchange-teacher visas are in general no longer granted; appointments now run typically September - August (possibly late July for states like Az, NM). Top schools start hiring October - December; most schools recruit January - March.

It can take longer than you think to get everything organised; note the windows above and don't procrastinate, be proactive!

December 2021 / January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth

October update : 

• Programmes by area
• Programmes by date

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 : 

Advanced Vocabulary : un mis dis and not

 

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.

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : reading checks

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"). 

Advanced Vocabulary : the English of Numbers and Quantities

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. 

Mathematics in the Early Years : Fractions

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.