January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - by date

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information. 

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth - by area

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Click on the session title(s) for more information. 

Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Reading Comprehension

 

From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three reading comprehension exercises.  Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.

Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Note-taking

 

From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three note-taking exercises.  Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.

August 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. 

Advanced Use of English : Using Fillers

 

Fillers are a feature of spontaneous and authentic speech and properly managed, serve an essential function however the uncontrolled use of fillers can make a speaker seem unconfident, uneducated, unsophisticated and even unintelligent, losing comprehensibility and credibility. Non-native speakers also run the risk of using fillers inappropriately, of over-using them or of stumbling and hesitating when a filler would have been helpful.

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.

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.

The three pillars of a Media Studies programme

Media Studies can be a distinct programme, a unit within a programme or interwoven throughout a programme. However you include it, our students need to develop media literacy and sophistication for their individual benefit and for that of society as a whole.

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.