January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Methodology : Writing

Writing is hard. Very hard. There is a very good reason why we have one Shakespeare, one Orwell, one Cortazar and one Neruda. The most important time in developing a writer is during his/her Primary years; these sessions explore how to develop and implement an effective writing programme with successful plug-and-play teacher-friendly approaches.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Literature : Short Stories

A selection of short stories suitable for literature teachers, teachers of Cambridge and IB literature or lang & lit programmes, or advanced EFL high school and adult students. Sessions consider works chosen from Cambridge's IGCSE English Literature text lists*, many have also previously featured on IB prescribed book lists, and so are among the works studied worldwide by students at that level.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Early Years Philosophy & Practice

Early Years (aka Early Childhood or PK - K) teaching and learning is critical to Lower Primary success, and sets the student up for his/her entire academic career, so adopting and implementing appropriate philosophies and practices is essential. Each session in this selection of our most popular Early Years sessions include both ready-to-use strategies and a framework which can be applied to the rest of your Early Years programme. 

Although the sessions and examples are in English, the approaches are suitable for programmes in other languages. Lower Primary and/or Infant teachers will also find these sessions useful. 

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Head of Department and Leadership

A selection of practical sessions for current and prospective Heads of Department, Co-ordinators. Heads of Section and Academic Directors using real-world examples and applications. Sessions are not specific to any particular programme, or to leading an English Department

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Speaking Practice

Maintaining range and fluency while teaching beginners or younger learners is at best challenging, and many if not most teachers have been unable to manage either or both in today's reality. We all need adult conversation, and these session provide just that. Each session is a guided discussion so prior reading and consideration is helpful, and the sharing of personal views and experiences expected. 

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - CAE Preparation : Reading and Use of English Practice

These sessions review tasks from recent Cambridge English "C1 Advanced" examinations. (We use "CAE", the examination's former name, because it is the more widely-known term in Chile.) They are not General English or Language acquisition and development sessions, but Exam Preparation : Practice; while we review possible responses, we do not explore the language behind correct and incorrect responses.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English : Practice & Feedback

These sessions focus on accuracy, appropriacy and on developing the speaker's range. Each explores advanced instances and implications of the topic, problem areas, common errors and traps, using True/False, fill-the-gap, discrimination, matching and other exercises. As these are Practice and Feedback sessions, we explore language points which arise from the prompts and if time allows, we also include a problem clinic. 

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Use of English : how the language works

Each session explores advanced instances and implications of the topic, problem areas, common errors and traps, and includes illustrative examples and exercises to develop and explore the points made. Where time allows, there is also opportunity for a "problem clinic".

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Advanced Reading Comprehension

Texts or text-links are sent to participants before each session for prior review. This is a "Knowledge and Understanding" programme, with the addition of Language acquisition and development; participants are asked about the text's "explicit meaning" and any Language questions they may have. The Guided Discussion format also allows for Advanced Speaking Practice.

January 2022 Professional Development and Personal Growth - Active Learning

Active Learning is a student-centred approach to teaching and learning in which the student is actively engaged with the materials, topics, skills and outcomes. In mnay respects, it it she opposite of a traditional teacher-centred, top-down, direct or passive approach. Each of these sessions considers one aspect of Active Learning and how it might look in a classroom. 

Although the target audience here are Primary teachers, all teachers should follow an Active Learning approach and so would find these sessions valuable.