January 2023 - 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, and although sessions are delivered in English, the contents are not restricted to leading an English Department.

Writing Methodologies for Cambridge's English for Schools examination series

Each stand-alone session reviews the respective genre, what Cambridge English is looking for, how to build a teacher-friendly and student-centred programme. For each level, the relevant introductory "implementing the descriptors" is strongly reommended. These sessions are for teachers new to Cambridge English for Schools, or in their first two years' preparing students for these certificates.

Implementing and Using Cambridge English B2 First for Schools Writing Descriptors

This session reviews the descriptors used for assessing Cambridge's B2 First for Schools Writing tasks : what they are, where to find them and how to use them. They are an essential guide as to how and what will be assessed in the written components of the final examination. Use these international standards to set your own programme expectations, and to prepare your students for success.

Positive Education - series

Positive education draws on individual strengths and motivations to promote learning. Through the school and teachers cultivating a positive environment, a child with a positive attitude shows enthusiasm, curiosity and engagement and even when not interested in a particular topic or activity, participates and shows a willingness to try and to learn.

October 2022 Chilean English Teachers’ Private Lesson Fees Survey

 

November 2022

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Student-led and student-centred reading checks

 

Student-led and student-centred learning means the teacher taking a back-seat, and the activities and thus learning and assessment* driving what happens in the classroom. Such an approach can also be used with reading. 

Assigning reading before a class (aka as "flipped learning") allows you more time in class for language development and the exploration of ideas. But how can you ask students to run before you have checked to se if they can crawl? Join us as we explore reading checks - how to know a student that has read a text before anything else occurs. 

Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : inversions

One of the complexing things about English is that certain expressions or constructions require an inversion, such as "never have I ever" or "rarely will you see". Join us as we review Advanced inversions in this Practice & Feedback session.

Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : transformations

The primary feature of Advanced English means knowing different ways of saying the same thing, aka as "range". One effect of this is that when a word changes, so do other elements of the sentence which is what we explore in this exercise. 

Plug-and-play reading comprehension : Opinions

More in our plug-and-play reading activities, these can be used for comprehension, for identifying opinion and bias, and as a prompt for speaking, debate or writing tasks.