Upcoming CPD
Upcoming CPD sessions for our teachers. Please email Monika, our academic manager, to attend LLE sessions.
If you need help using the online teaching materials, you can book a teaching support meeting with our academic manager, Monika.
LLE CPD
CPD schedule for 2024
January 31st (Wednesday) 12.30pm - 2.00pm Jo Krousso
Receptive Skills: Finding the Balance Between Teaching and Practising
February 28th (Wednesday) 1pm - 2.30pm Jo Krousso
Building Thinking Skills for Confident Communication
March 20th (Wednesday) 12.30pm - 2.00pm Joe Dale
Resource Creation with ChatGPT: A Game-Changer for Language Teachers Part 1
April 17th (Wednesday) 12.30pm - 2.00pm Joe Dale
Resource Creation with ChatGPT: A Game-Changer for Language Teachers Part 2
May 23rd (Thursday) 10.00am - 11.00am Barbara Lewin
Introduction to Safeguarding (up to 18 attendees)
May 29th (Wednesday) 3pm - 4pm Barbara Lewin
Introduction to Safeguarding (up to 18 attendees)
June 19th (Wednesday) 1pm - 2.30pm Jo Krousso
Guiding your teen students to better writing
September 25th (Wednesday) 1pm - 2.30pm Jo Krousso
Spoken language, speaking skills and confident communication
October 23rd (Wednesday) 1pm - 2.30pm Karen Stanley and Monika Smith
Managing income from homestay work
November 27th (Wednesday) 1pm - 2.30pm Monika Smith
Using your home as a teaching resource
Please contact Monika to book a space, stating which workshops you would like to attend. We hope you’ll be able to attend them all!
External CPD
Is the Future Perfect? 2024
A three-day, online, interactive festival of English language teaching looking at today’s teaching to create a better tomorrow
Dates: 21st, 22nd and 23rd May 2024
Times: 13.00 – 17.00 BST each day
Host: Kirsten Holt, Creativity Sown
Price: £10 administration fee.
The administration fee covers access to all live sessions across the three-day online, interactive festival, a CPD certificate of attendance, recordings of the talks, any support material and resources from the talks, and access to exclusive discounts.
Sponsor: Bournemouth English Book Centre
LLE CPD
CPD schedule for 2023.
February 22nd, 1pm - 2.30pm - Jo Krousso (Macmillan Education)
Taking Authentic Language From Passive Reception to Confident Language Production
March 29th, 1pm - 2.30pm - Mark Hancock (‘Pronunciation Games and Activities’)
Teaching pronunciation to 1:1 students
April 26th, 1pm - 2.30pm - Jo Krousso (Macmillan Education)
Scaffolding Speaking Activities
May 17th, 1pm - 3pm - Anne Margaret Smith
Teaching English to neurodiverse students
June 7th, 1pm - 2.30pm - Jo Krousso (Macmillan Education)
Navigating MEE
September 20th, 1pm - 2.30pm - Monika Smith
Teaching reading skills to EFL students
October 18th, 1pm - 2.30pm - Jo Krousso (Macmillan Education)
Developing Students' Exam Skills
November 22nd, 1pm - 2.30pm - Monika Smith
Teaching listening skills to EFL students
Please contact Monika to book a space, stating which workshops you would like to attend. We hope you’ll be able to attend them all!