January 2023 - Job Search support

These sessions are as yet unscheduled. If you would like to request any as closed (private, one-to-one or small group), you may choose any time labelled as "Available for "on demand" sessions" from our January by date.* Alternatively, if you would like to be informed when a closed session is scheduled please let us know.

January 2023 - Literature

A selection of short texts suitable for both Intermediate / Advanced English students and teachers, and literature atudents and teachers, Texts or text-links are sent to participants the day prior to the session(s) to allow for pre-reading. These sessions provide introductory overviews to the texts rather than in-depth literary analyses or methodology programmes. 

January 2023 - Lower Primary (G1-4) Philosophy & Practice

Lower Primary (G1 - 4) is all about gaining, inculculating and developing the skills and attitudes needed for success in Middle School and beyond. 

January 2023 - 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. 

January 2023 - Active Learning for Early Years and Lower Primary

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 many respects, active learning is the opposite of a traditional teacher-centred, top-down or "direct" approach. Sessions consider one aspect of Active Learning and how it might look in a classroom. 

January 2023 - Advanced Reading Comprehension Practice & Feedback

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

January 2023 - International Education

For teachers and educational leaders considering teaching in an international school or international programme, or in their first two years' teaching such a programme or in such a school.

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.