Leading for Impact

This two-part course will help teachers, especially those in leadership positions, to reflect on the challenges of leadership roles and how to best carry out initiatives in your school to create an environment for flourishing. The first session from the course will start on 14 January 2025 and the second on 21 January 2025.   […]

An introduction to coaching: How to make ‘Every Conversation’ in your school more impactful

Coaching is one of our most powerful approaches to professional development and leadership.  The benefits of coaching are well documented, this workshop will ‘get under the hood’ of how you can implement and embed coaching in the conversations that happen in your school – starting with the conversation you have with yourself. Additional information: Delegate fees: […]

Teaching EAL Pupils in Mainstream Classroom

Description Session 1 (1-hr) – The Learner’s Perspective Session 2 (1-hr) – The Language Rich Classroom: Improving Performance Across the Four Skills Session 3 (1-hr) – Pick Up The Habits of an EAL Teachers: Tips & Tricks to Enhance Language Acquisition Target audience: Classroom teachers Booking process: This interactive online course is delivered by Dragonfly Training. Participant […]

International Teacher Development, Professionalism, and Mobility

In this webinar, panellists from COBIS Schools and the Chartered College of Teaching will explore the value of international school experience and the range of professional development opportunities for teachers and leaders in the international sector (including Chartered Status, formal training, opportunities to engage with research, initial teacher training, and more). The panellists will look […]

Making Sense of Autism and Developing Good Autism Practice

The sessions will be interactive with discussion points and activities and attendees will receive practical support packs that will empower them to implement their new skills and knowledge in their setting. What is Making Sense of Autism? An awareness raising module designed for everyone, covering a fundamental understanding of autism in order to achieve good […]

Inspiring a Passion for Innovation-STEAM conference

Location: British School of Bucharest, Romania will be hosting a conference for Teachers, Middle Leaders, and Senior Leaders on 15-16 November 2024. STEAM fundamentally requires a significant amount of hardware alongside excellent teaching. This conference will provide an opportunity for Teachers, Middle Leaders, and Senior Leaders to come together to explore how STEAM can be successfully delivered to students and schools. The […]

COBIS Programme for Middle Leaders (CMPL)

More than 140 Middle Leaders took part in the COBIS Programme for Middle Leaders in 2023/24, with cohorts running in Bucharest, Cayman Islands, Lagos, Lisbon, Marbella, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Riyadh, Rome, and The Hague. In 2024/25, we expect open cohorts to run in Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, Nigeria, Oman, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, and […]

Learning observations – making the most of our time in colleagues’ classrooms

With this course we can move beyond ‘learning walks’ and ‘lesson observations’ – and instead achieve genuine professional development and improved student outcomes from the time we spend in each other’s classrooms. It will take place over 2 sessions of 2h each: 17 January and 24 February 2023 from 09.00-11.00 GMT (UTC). Presenter Bob (Barbara) Justham is […]

Develop the use of oracy, questioning and learner independence to create cognitively challenging classrooms for all learners

This course explores how effective oracy, research behind effective questioning for all learners, and the theory behind developing learner independence helps create cognitively challenging classrooms for all learners. The course will take place over three sessions of three hours each: 10 January, 6 February, 20 February 2024, 09.00-12.00 GMT (UTC). Learn more from NACE’s soundbite […]