We were delighted to host a group of 22 English teachers from across Georgia in January for a 5-day course focussing on developing communicative language teaching and learner centred lessons. The course aimed to combine input that challenged established teacher-centred practices,Read more...
In September we welcomed a group of 30 young people from Duca degli Abruzzi school in Treviso, Italy who had come with funding from the EU and the Veneto Region, in Italy. They stayed with us for a two-week course based around the topic of Digital Citizenship.
As well as consideringRead more...
In September we welcomed a group of 80 Swiss students from the Bildungszentrum kvBL in Liestal, Switzerland. As part of a long-running project with this institution, they came to us for a two-week course which specifically focussed on Business English in preparation forRead more...
From 31st Aug – 8 Sept 2017 a group of Austrian secondary bilingual school teachers took a bespoke CLIL (content and language integrated learning) and language development course at NILE. The seven-day intensive programme covered a range of CLIL topics, includingRead more...
In July, we welcomed a group of 40 primary and secondary teachers as part of our long-running partnership with the Comunidad de Madrid. This four-week course was intended to improve the participants’ language own skills as well as develop their teaching methodology and competences related to the bilingual context. In addition, it wasRead more...
If you enjoy NILE's Linguistic Landscape and would like to bring it to your classrooms, have a look at NILE Asscociate Trainer Jamie Keddie's newsletter from Norwich this summer!
A cheeky advert from Norwich mustard giants, Colman's, using the nursery rhyme 'Mary had a little lamb'Read more...
As part of our continuing programme of ICT-focussed courses, we welcomed a group of Digital Promoters from a consortium of 11 secondary schools in Italy. The teachers are digital enthusiasts who are in charge of encouraging teachers in their schools to use technology to enhance learning. They spentRead more...
From January to March, we delivered courses and workshops to teachers from the Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus, supported by our strategic partners Macmillan Education. Briony Beaven, NILE Associate Trainer..Read more...
As always in January, we had a large group of trainee secondary teachers at Nile from Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark in Graz, Austria . They spent two weeks with us, which included some initial language improvement work, working on their already excellent English, with Maria Byrne, John McMahon, Chris Rose and Susi Pearson, followed byRead more...
