Play for young(er) chidren is seen as "a good thing". It is often described as the child's "work" and "play-based" programmes abound. However play is frequently misunderstood and mis-applied, and it can have no educational value which is where purposeful play comes in. This session considers one view of Developmentally Appropriate play and how it can appear as an effective learning and teaching strategy.
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.
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.
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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!
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").
