29 July 2023
Advanced Use of English : Using Fillers
26 July 2023
Leadership Philosophy & Practice : developing and implementing a departmental handbook
Effective organisations, such as schools, and organisational units, such as departments, are effective because they have published, available and clear policies and procedures. In short, they have handbooks which define expectations, common language and approaches, historical decisions and precedents, and provide guidance for future actions and decisions.
21 July 2023
Four Houses and Homes Field Trip ideas for Lower Primary
Teachers often ask how to incorporate learning outside the classroom into their programme, and how to do so cheaply, effectively and in a teacher-friendly way. Field Trips can be the answer, and since houses and homes is a Grade Four topic in the Chilean national curriculum, combining the two does the old two birds and one stone thing.
This session provides four successful, no-cost or low-cost plug-and-play Field Trips, and although aimed at Lower Primary teachers, the activities are also applicable to Middle School and can easily be adapted.
20 July 2023
The three pillars of a Media Studies programme
18 July 2023
Advanced Use of English : relations or relationships, it's relative
Relations, relationships, relatives, relative, related, in relation to, be related to, the other relations ... international relations or relationships? to be related to or relative to? These are complicated connections. Can you relate? Join us as we explore what looks like an easy distinction. Spoiler alert. It's not.
Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Summaries
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session covers the characteristics of and then writing and reviewing summaries.
06 July 2023
Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Fire on Christmas Eve" by Dylan Thomas
04 July 2023
July 2023
Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or contact us for registration information. The events below are open group sessions from our Seminars, Advanced Use of English and Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private programmes.
01 July 2023
Active Learning : Questioning
Asking questions is a crucial skill for teachers, and is more than just checking for recall. Effective questioning can "can stimulate learning, develop the potential of students to think", clarify ideas, "stir the imagination, and [create an] incentive to act". Join us as we review the role and function of asking questions for learning.
21 June 2023
The English of discussing graphs