Courses

Learn how to see this website and our online school content in your language

Discover the power of AI & ChatGPT for your Community Language School.

This course introduces AI concepts, explores different models, and teaches you a recipe-based approach to creating engaging language activities—where prompts are ingredients and method is key.

Plus, Explicit Teaching techniques are modelled throughout to support your learning.

Explore the different levels of teacher planning, from the big picture of a whole year to the details of individual lessons.

This introduction provides an overview of the Planning Courses and how they will support your teaching.

Learn how to write a Unit of Work for your Community Language School class.

This course guides you through the key components, provides a practical template, and includes real examples to help you plan lessons effectively and align them with curriculum outcomes.

Learn how to create a Teaching Program (Scope and Sequence) for your Community Language School class.

This course guides you through the key steps of planning, provides templates and practice activities, and then teaches you how to use AI to make this easier.

Learn to create effective lesson plans using a simple template designed to support student engagement and learning.

This course covers key lesson components, including Explicit Teaching techniques.

Watch live professional development (PD) sessions where I guide Community Language School (CLS) teachers through these proven strategies.

Get started with Smart Teaching, also known as Explicit Teaching.

This introduction explores evidence-based teaching strategies in action, featuring a live lesson that demonstrates how structured, direct instruction enhances student learning

Explore Smart Teaching Techniques in action.

This course introduces key explicit teaching strategies, featuring live classroom examples from Community Language Schools (CLS) to enhance student learning

Build on your Smart Teaching skills with more powerful strategies.

In Part 2, explore: call non-volunteers, quality listening, effective responses, and mini whiteboards, with real classroom examples from Community Language Schools (CLS).

Great feedback boosts learning.

This introduction explains why feedback is essential for student progress, what makes feedback effective, and what you’ll learn in this course to improve your feedback skills.

Enhance your feedback skills with AI.

This course explores the first of the key elements of effective feedback, showcases real classroom examples, and then teaches you how to use AI to model best-practice

Learn how to give effective feedback that aligns with learning goals.

This course explores the importance of goal-related feedback, helps you define clear learning objectives, and concludes with an action challenge to apply your skills in practice.

Get started with Classroom Management.

This introduction explores what classroom management is, why it’s essential for effective teaching, and how it helps create a positive, structured learning environment.

Create a positive and productive classroom with preventative behaviour strategies.

This course teaches you how to set up activities, establish clear expectations, and use beautiful behaviour flashcards in your language to reinforce the behaviours you want to see.

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Learn how to respond effectively when student behaviour disrupts learning.

This course covers responsive classroom management strategies, from minimal interventions to escalated approaches, helping you handle disruptions with confidence and clarity.

Boost focus and engagement with Brain Breaks & Transitions.

This course teaches practical techniques to help students (and teachers) shift into a focused learning state by settling energy, lifting energy, and using retrieval practice strategies.