Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years

Recently, Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years (aka "Very Young Learners") have been widely discussed in both the general and educational media, and several popular approaches have been discredited and debunked. Join us as we review an effective and proven Philosophy and set of Practices to help you get your students reading which does not require intensive investment.

Cambridge English C1 Advanced (was CAE) one-day specific intensives

From time to time, we may offer a one-day five-session review of a specific C1 Advanced paper, one day devoted for example to Paper One Reading & Use of English, or of a specific component such as Transformations or the Speaking Long-Turn. So if you need only to work on something on one area or one skill. this is just what you need.

Individual Oral Presentations - teaching and evaluating speeches

Preparing students to give Individual Oral Presentations (aka "IOPs") is a part of most, if not all, English Teaching & Learning and Evaluation programmes, and the most common IOP is the speech. Join us in this top-level review of the what and the how of speechifying, and of preparing students for the assessed speech elements of international programmes.

Outdoor Activities for English Learners

Gross Motor development is not the exclusive domain of Physical Education teachers; English teachers can also use these activities for students to blow off extra steam as they practise their English skills. They are especially useful in Active Learning and experiential learning programmes.

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.