Academic Services Catalogue

Beside each abstract is a guide which describes the target segment of the workshop. A: adult, T: teens, C: children.

Adding Technology to Your Activities

AI and the modern classroom

Ascending Bloom's Learning Pyramid

Assessing and Providing Feedback on Writing

Bringing your Puppets to Life

Captivating your Students’ Attention Through Visual Material

Classroom Management and Effective Teacher Talk

Cognitive Flexibility: Challenging the Brain

Communication is More than Speaking

Developing Listening Skills

Developing Reading Skills

Developing Writing Skills

Enhancing productive skills through Neuro Linguistic Programming

Flipped Learning

Gamification for Young Learners

Gamification for Teens

Keeping Students Motivated Online

Learning Actively

Learning Through Actions – Total Physical Response

Learning Through Play for Very Young Learners

Lesson Planning

Making Reading Fun

Making Vocabulary Learning Fun

Meaningful Feedback

Mindset Matters: Cultivating Growth

Motivating Teenagers

Phonics for Young Learners

Re-thinking our Activities Creatively

Teaching Pronunciation for Success!

The Differentiated Classroom

Working with Projects

Adding Technology to your Activities

Choosing the right activity involving technology can be a daunting task. The SAMR model will help you take any traditional activity and spice it up with a hint of technology. Achieve greater educational results as you learn to use technology to adapt any conventional task to a more modern approach of reaching your aims.

Ascending Bloom's Learning

Pyramid – Strategies for Effective Teaching

In this workshop, we will review Bloom's Taxonomy and its hierarchical learning pyramid. Participants will engage in interactive demonstrations that highlight each stage, from basic knowledge recall to complex creation. This practical session aims to equip teachers with strategies to apply these levels effectively in their teaching, enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes.

Assessing and Providing Feedback on Writing

In this workshop, we'll explore effective strategies for comprehensive evaluation and providing valuable feedback. Embrace diverse assessment methods, including teacher, self, and peer assessments, fostering growth and creativity. Discover practical approaches like using rubrics to enhance feedback quality. Join us to invigorate your students' writing journey and equip yourself with powerful assessment and feedback tools to elevate your teaching.

AI and the modern classroom

Explore the fusion of Artificial Intelligence in education with a focus on English learning in our upcoming session. We'll demystify common generative AI, discussing its capabilities and pitfalls. Discover how AI can streamline teaching tasks and enhance productivity. We'll also delve into ethical ways to integrate AI in student learning. Leave with practical, innovative strategies to make English teaching more engaging and relevant in an AI-empowered educational landscape.

Bringing your Puppets to Life

It is through imaginative play that children come to understand the differences between fantasy and reality, making the real world real, when they pretend. Children develop their emotions, improve motor skills, boost their confidence and increase their participation in class when they use puppets. So, let´s bring our classrooms to life by using our imagination and shape our worlds creatively with the help of puppets!

Captivating your students’ attention through visual material

In an image-driven era, students are immersed in a world full of visual cues. This workshop explores how to harness captivating visuals for effective language learning. Uncover techniques to seamlessly integrate visuals into lessons and utilize textbook images for an engaging educational experience. Enhance your teaching through visual literacy, captivating your students and transforming language acquisition. Join us to embrace the power of visuals in the classroom.

Classroom Management and Effective Teacher Talk

In this session, we'll delve into the pivotal role teachers play in fostering successful classroom management. Evolving from traditional authority figures, teachers now serve as facilitators. Explore various teacher roles and discover step-by-step procedures for ensuring efficient activity management. Emphasizing effective teacher talk, we'll focus on communication strategies and clear instructions to actively engage students.

Cognitive Flexibility: Challenging the Brain

We all know that our IQ is often said to be a crucial driver of success. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people. But the truth is that some of the greatest achievements of humankind have primarily relied on qualities such as creativity, imagination, curiosity and empathy; traits embedded in COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY! Want to know more? Join us for this dynamic workshop.

Communication is More than Speaking

Communication skills are an integral part of language learning. They go beyond just grammar and vocabulary. Oracy aids students in becoming great communicators by also focusing on abilities such as body language, eye contact, and tonal variation to name a few. In this session, we’ll cover more than just speaking!

Developing Listening Skills

Students often struggle with listening skills. In this workshop, we will examine how learners can best develop their listening skills by listening to a variety of texts that replicate the types of listening in the real world. Two key concepts that help us to understand what we are top-down processing (using schema or expectation of what you are going to hear) and bottom-up processing (focusing on words and grammar). In addition, we will discuss the types of sub-skills necessary for students to be successful in all types of situations.

Developing Reading Skills

Reading is a skill that needs to be developed. Students must learn how to read effectively and be taught the proper strategies to get the most out of the text. During this workshop, we will look at sub-skills, different types of texts, and reflect on our own beliefs about the reading process. You will be given the opportunity to think about, plan and discuss reading activities based on the course book you are currently using. Leave the session with some practical ideas to take back to your classrooms.

Developing Writing Skills

Helping students achieve writing success can sometimes seem daunting. In this workshop, teachers will revise basic concepts and work on ideas to encourage written production by establishing a scaffolded process, and clear language outcomes. We’ll examine different learner-centered techniques, in which learners’ needs, expectations, goals, learning preferences, skills and knowledge are taken into consideration.

Enhancing productive skills through Neuro Linguistic Programming

The 21st Century teacher needs to apply a variety of teaching strategies and be as resourceful as possible to help their learners become effective language users. This workshop suggests simple and practical ways of applying NLP to help students improve their speaking and writing skills. The session aims at the Practical rather than at the Theoretical framework of Neuro Linguistic Programming. In other words, it is Theory-inuse. Participants will leave the session with hands-on activities and ideas to use immediately.

Flipped Learning

Flipped Learning redefines the traditional ELT classroom, where the pre-task serves the purpose of introducing students to a topic before class. This approach frees up valuable in-class time for engaging activities and essential practice. Learn how to implement Flipped Learning in your teaching context and reap its benefits.

Gamification for Young Learners

Gamification is the use of game design to enhance non-game contexts by increasing participation, engagement, loyalty and competition. With a little creativity, we can add a gaming element to almost any activity or project. Imagine your students begging for more homework because they get ‘experience’ or ‘life’ points they can exchange for a fun reward. This is a possibility with gamification. Leave the session with fresh ideas to get your students motivated!

Gamification for Teens

How can we get our teen students' attention? Gamification! By adding a gaming element to different activities or projects, we can increase participation, engagement, loyalty and competition. Imagine your students begging for more homework because they get 'experience' or 'life' points they can exchange for a fun reward. This is a possibility with gamification. Leave the session ready to gamify your classroom!

Keeping Students Motivated Online

Keeping students motivated in an online setting presents challenges. In this session, we'll explore two crucial aspects: motivating students and encouraging camera use during virtual classes. Uncover effective methods to boost student engagement. Join our workshop to elevate your online teaching and create an enriching virtual classroom.

Learning Actively

Active learning is an essential step in taking ownership in ones ´ own learning by activating the brain – not only the body. Discover the transformative power of active learning in enhancing student engagement, understanding, and retention. Let's embark on an exciting journey of active discovery!

Learning Through Actions –Total Physical Response

Do your students struggle to understand your instructions in English? Get ready to learn with your whole body in our dynamic workshop. Discover the joy of kinesthetic language acquisition and unlock the power of total physical response in the classroom. Let's move, learn, and have a blast together! Create and English only environment in your class from the beginning – Every English Teacher’s Dream!

Learning Through Play for Very Young Learners

Early childhood development is based on playing. Free-play allows trial and error which is essential for children's brain development and their comprehension of English. The benefits are longlasting as children learn without inhibitions. It prepares them to have a healthier and more candid relationship with this new language. In this session, we’ll examine how play, in a variety of definitions, can help teach children in a holistic manner and focus on their social and emotional development. This session is aimed at children in kindergarten.

Lesson Planning

Behind every great class lies an even greater lesson plan. In this session, we'll explore setting SMART objectives, structuring your lesson with distinct stages, and adapting it to diverse contexts. Discover effective interaction patterns, and gain insights into identifying potential challenges and possible solutions.

Making Reading Fun

Helping our students fall in love with the words on a page has a lasting outcome in their love of literature. In this session, we will examine different strategies to bring stories to life and how to get students involved in the process through dynamic and interactive activities.

Making Vocabulary Learning

Fun

Shift beyond memorization and drills in vocabulary learning! This workshop offers specific ideas, strategies, and activities to make it relevant, challenging, and personalized for your learners, enhancing their language exploration and fostering deeper engagement. Join us and unleash the joy of learning vocabulary.

Meaningful Feedback

Looking for teaching strategies that produce the best outcomes from your students? Look no more! A strategy that has a deep effect on students, and can be easily implemented today, is feedback. Good classroom feedback is a practical and useful way for teachers to improve their habits, to create more engaging classrooms, and of course, better learners. You will be encouraged to see how your students respond positively to criticism when good feedback techniques are implemented in your classroom. They will feel safe and confident to improve their own learning, when using feedback.

Mindset Matters: Cultivating Growth

Explore the power of growth mindset in fostering personal and academic success. Learn strategies for setting goals, stepping outside your comfort zone, and cultivating resilience. Through interactive activities and reflective exercises, gain practical tools for cultivating growth mindset in yourself and your students. Leave with actionable steps to start using immediately in and out of the classroom.

Motivating Teenagers

If you have ever wondered how to motivate your teenage learners, this is the session for you. In this workshop, we will tap into the teenage mindset and explore what truly drives them. Through interactive and dynamic tasks, we will build a toolbox of dynamic activities to use in your lessons, while not losing sight of how best to keep students motivated. Leave the session feeling more confident in your ability to captivate and inspire teens.

Phonics for Young Learners

Discover the magic of phonics and how it strengthens early reading skills. Tailored for teachers with limited phonics knowledge, this workshop offers practical activities for dynamic phonics lessons. Empower young learners with confidence in reading. Join us for a transformative experience and elevate your classroom teaching with phonics expertise.

Re-thinking our Activities

Creatively

Add creativity to your activities...but, how do we build creativity in our students if we lack creativity? In this workshop, we’ll discuss some pre-conceived notions that need to be put to rest, in other words, buried very deeply! Once we are on the right track, we’ll look at ideas to spark the creativity you have hiding inside and light up your activities with it, making them more enjoyable and motivating for your students.

Teaching Pronunciation for Success!

Implicit teaching of phonology can build confidence and help learners produce language more effectively. Pronunciation should be included in our lessons in short, simple activities enabling learners to build good foundations for future learning. Try a little bit at a time... a short pronunciation focus in each lesson can be of benefit to learners, and it can be really fun, too!.

In this workshop, we will examine the basics and practice activities such as drilling, identifying stress, and some others. Come and learn how to get your students from sounding like robots to speaking like a pro!

The Differentiated Classroom

In the realm of lesson planning, a one-size-fits-all approach falls short. This workshop will explore various strategies to differentiate your lessons based on your context. From effective student grouping to setting diverse tasks for the same content, discover different approaches to cater to varying abilities in your classes.

Working with Projects

Project-Based Learning (PBL) empowers students to take an active part in their learning by demonstrating what they know, focusing on real-world problems, and enhancing collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Join this workshop to explore the benefits of PBL and learn how to implement it effectively for a successful learning outcome.

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The Competency Corner

Why do we need a Life Competencies Framework?

Our rapidly changing world calls for preparing students with skills and experiences that extend beyond language acquisition. Recognizing this, at Cambridge, we acknowledge the language classroom as an ideal environment for fostering these essential qualities through engaging and collaborative activities. Join us to discover the reasons behind this approach and how to implement it effectively.

Collaboration

Collaboration is frequently highlighted as a vital skill in 21stcentury education. Collaborating offers several benefits compared to individual problem-solving, such as efficient division of tasks, incorporating insights from various sources, perspectives and experiences, increased creativity, and improved quality of solutions. Verbal interactions among individuals go beyond merely exchanging information; they provide mutual support for collective thinking. This collaborative engagement enables participants to accomplish more together than they could individually.

To further explore the power of collaboration, join us at our workshop.

Communication

Effective communication is vital both professionally and in everyday life, allowing us to convey information, thoughts, emotions, and opinions. It involves an interactive process shaped by the intricacies of human behavior, including nonverbal cues and personal approaches to understanding and attributing significance to situations. Acquiring proficiency in communication is a skill that can be refined separately from mastering the fundamental linguistic aspects of a language. Be a part of our workshop to explore more about the strength of communication.

Creativity

Creativity is a multifaceted notion that involves the inclination or capacity to quickly produce numerous original and innovative ideas, alternatives, or possibilities and develop them further. These ideas are considered valuable and significant by individuals other than the creator. Key features of creative thinking encompass divergent thinking, imagination, cognitive adaptability, a tolerance for ambiguity or unpredictability, intrinsic motivation, and an appreciation for the unfamiliar. Join us to discover the significance of creativity in our daily lives. Participate in our workshop to experience the transformative power of creativity.

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking involves advanced cognitive processes that learners require to think efficiently and logically about their intentions and the optimal course of action. This includes recognizing connections between concepts, examining different perspectives, and assessing arguments, evidence, logic, and outcomes. Step into our workshop to explore the potential of critical thinking problem-solving.

Digital Literact

Digital Literacy plays a crucial role in shaping students into lifelong learners by incorporating vital life skills like Communication, Collaboration, Creative Thinking, and Critical Thinking. It's more than just utilizing technology; it's a skill set that students won't inherently acquire through digital interactions alone. Merely using technology frequently won't enable students to identify fake news, assess online information reliability, or recognize internet threats. Therefore, educators need to be mindful of this and actively integrate Digital Literacy into their teaching methods.

Enroll in our workshop to step into the world of Digital Literacy innovation.

Emotional Development

Emotional development lays a crucial groundwork for success at any stage of life. It impacts our learning capabilities and how well we can perform tasks in the workplace or educational settings. Unlike other competencies, emotional development often relies less on explicit or teacher-led guidance. Typically, the suggested method involves integrating emotional skill development into activities that focus on other learning goals, providing learners with opportunities to enhance their emotional abilities.

Join our workshop to explore the Emotional Development framework.

Learning to Learn

The pace of change regarding the skills and competencies required in the workplace is increasing rapidly. It is crucial that we consistently acquire new skills and knowledge throughout our careers. Education should emphasize developing learning skills as much as the outcomes of learning. This learning journey begins in early childhood and continues throughout our lives.

To further explore the power of Learning to Learn, join us at our workshop.

Social Responsibility

In this era, the globalized, rapidly evolving, and multicultural world provides young individuals with valuable opportunities to engage with others and access information regardless of time and place. However, this also presents unprecedented challenges. Issues like climate change, war, refugees, poverty, and social inequality have evolved into global concerns affecting numerous countries and communities. These issues call for international cooperation and a fresh approach to educating the youth. Social responsibilities encompass the rights and obligations that accompany citizenship on a national and global scale.

Step into our workshop to explore the Social Responsibility framework.

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