January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Week Three (13 - 17 January)

 

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

January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Week Two (6 - 10 January)

 

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

January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Week One (30 December - 3 January)

 

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

January 2025 Professional Development and Personal Growth

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

December 2024

Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or complete the "Contact Us" form to the right 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. 

Creating and Analysing Blogs in the English class

Although there is no road-code or rulebook for blogging, there are general features both for creators and for readers and/or analysts. As a teacher, you likely want your students to respond to and/or analyse blogs, if not actually to produce posts. Here are those features.

Promote and Celebrate English in your school with Armistice Day

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

The guns fell silent.

Every year on the eleventh of November, people all over the world gather to remember the end of the Great War in the hope that it will not be repeated. Lest we forget. Join us as we explore this significant date in human history.

November 2024

Click on the event title(s) below for more information. Leave your questions or comments below, or complete the "Contact Us" form to the right 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. 

ABC (insert English certificate name here) is not for life

Someone somewhere sometime in the past, in the world of selling English as a Foreign Language (EFL) certifications" (and possibly books, materials and courses), made a smart decision. S/he would start promoting this certification as "for life", and so a myth was born. Sadly, this is at best misleading, if not verging on the untrue.

Promote and Celebrate English in your school with Guy Fawkes Day (aka "Bonfire Night")

Remember remember

The fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot

Every year on the fifth of November, people all over the world gather to remember democracy, the monarchy, the British system of government and protest with bonfires, fireworks and the burning of effigies. Join us as we explore this curiosity of Britishness.