Professional Learning Program

The PLP consists of 21 core workshops organised into seven streams. Choose any stream and start with the Tier 1 workshop.

After How to be a good language teacher, you can choose any stream. Start with the lowest tier.

All workshops are FREE for teachers and leaders in community language schools, however bookings are essential.

Core workshops. Click on the STREAM for details of the workshops.

STREAM	TIER 1 WORKSHOP	TIER 2 WORKSHOP	TIER 3 WORKSHOP
The essentials of language teaching	Tell me now, show me how to be a good language teacher. EVERYONE STARTS HERE	How can we be better language teachers? The Principles of instructed language learning.	Applying the principles of instructed language learning; whole school curriculum development.
Planning and programming	Lesson planning	Programming	Cumulative language learning
Using texts and designing tasks	Understanding text and task	Task design	Differentiated learning and multi-level task design
Managing and monitoring learning	How are you managing?	Monitoring learner performance	Assessing of, for and in language learning
Technology and language learning	High tech ideas for low tech classrooms	Getting IT together	Using technology for learning and communicating in the classroom and across the world
Leadership and Governance	What makes for a good language program?	Leadership in languages	Good governance in community language schools
Community links	Real life homework	Maximizing community contribution within the CLS context	Ambassadors and mentors: Growing and using the intercultural expertise of youth within the community