100 Ideas for English Week

 

So you've volunteered (or you've been volunteered) for this year's English Day, English Week or English Festival, and you're bereft of ideas. Don't worry. We can help with our 100 Ideas for English Week.

Developing and Implementing a Successful Music Programme

Research is clear. Students benefit from a core or compulsory music curriculum,ideally from PK going through at least to the end of Prirmay or Elementary school. Join as we review what went into two highly-successul comprehensive curricular music programmes, with co-curricular and cross-curricular accompaniments.

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "My Periodic Table" by Oliver Sacks

Our four-part series on this moving reflective essay for students, teachers and those interested in literature, and with a passing knowledge of Chemistry. This deeply-poignant. personal and humorous text by one of our most significant contemporary authors was written on the eve of his death; you may know him from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

Reading Round the Room Does Not Work; why and what does

Reading aloud may or may not be an important skill for students to develop. However, once the decision that it is has been taken, we are faced with the question of methodology. Research is clear : reading round the room (aka "round robin" or "popcorn") does not work, while group reading (choral or echo) is seriously flawed.

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : CLIL and Immersion, Philosophy & Practice

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. CLIL, or Content and Language Integrated Learning, is linked to language immersion and to active learning practices. In its simplest form, CLIL is learning through the target language rather than learning of and need not be restricted to Foreign or Second Language Acquisition. 

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Cambridge English for Schools Methodology, Writing

 

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Cambridge English for Schools are EFL examinations and certificates aimed at teens, or Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12) students. They are linked to the same CEFR levels as their main suite siblings, but with more age-appropriate prompts and tasks.

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Cambridge English for Schools Methodology, Speaking and Listening

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Cambridge English for Schools are EFL examinations and certificates aimed at teens, or Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12) students. They are linked to the same CEFR levels as their main suite siblings, but with more age-appropriate prompts and tasks.

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Video-based Teaching and Learning

 

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Students spend a significant amount of time on video platforms, but do they know how to "view" critically? Do they have the tools of visual-language criticism, and of multi-modal response and analysis, they really do need in an increasingly visual world? 

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (G5 - 8) Methodology Philosophy & Practice

 

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx

January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Upper Secondary / High School (G9 - 12) Speaking

 Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. xxx