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"Global Education for 2020": Italian teachers with Erasmus+ funding

In September, Italian teachers from Istituto Comprensivo Assisi 3 from Petrignano Di Assisi came to NILE on a bespoke two-week course as part of their Erasmus+ project "Global Education for 2020". The group course focused on language development as well as innovative uses of technology in the classroom and approaches to CLIL...

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0 comments | 08 September 2015 | Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
Galician Testing Course

For a week in May we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of 5 language teachers from Galicia, Spain for a tailor-made course. The purpose of the week was for the teachers to enhance their skills in testing and assessing writing and speaking, with a particular focus on training to use marking scales and the use of technology in testing.

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0 comments | 22 June 2015 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Ria Stiles
Zurich Vocational Teachers

The Education Authority of the Cantonment of Zurich sponsored a study tour to Norwich for 18 vocational education teachers with a variety of specialisms from bicycle maintenance, confectionary and IT to community care.Read more...

0 comments | 28 April 2015 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Alan Mackenzie
Teaching methodology and language development for Peruvian Secondary School Teachers

From January to March 2015, we had the pleasure of working with a group of 64 Peruvian Secondary School Teachers at NILE over 7 weeks of language development, teaching methodology, intercultural awareness and, of course, lots of fun.

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0 comments | 02 April 2015 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Tom Sarney
Drama, language and school placements for trainee teachers from Austria

Thirty-nine trainee teachers from Graz joined us at NILE for a specially-designed two-week course combining language development, uses of drama in the language classroom, and placements in their subject specialisms at local secondary schools.

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0 comments | 03 February 2015 | Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
13-week teacher development course for Yunnan Secondary School Teachers

With many fond farewells and Christmas carols ringing around us, we said goodbye this week to a fantastic group of 23 teachers from Yunnan province in China, who had been studying at NILE for thirteen weeks developing their language proficiency and awareness, critical thinking, communicative methodology, intercultural awareness and practical teaching skills.

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0 comments | 19 December 2014 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
Fieldwork and intensive language development for students from Zurich

One of NILE's long-term friends and partner organisations, Kantonschule Wiedikon in Zurich, brought another group this autumn for a tailor-made three-week course combining subject-specific fieldwork with intensive language development and preparation for Cambridge exams.

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0 comments | 18 December 2014 | Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
Testing and Assessment course for teachers from Valencia

Teachers from the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas Quart de Poblet have just left Norwich after an intensive tailor-made, week-long testing and assessment course with Erasmus+ funding.

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0 comments | 04 December 2014 | Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
Primary School Teachers from Hubei, China

Last Friday we said farewell to 24 primary school teachers from Hubei province in China after a three-week course designed to develop their English teaching methodology and personal language proficiency. The group settled quickly into Norwich life, and enjoyed their immersion into the local culture with host families and a series of educational and cultural visits.

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0 comments | 12 November 2014 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle
Swiss Business Students from Liestal Secondary School

Eighty-one students from Liestal School near Basel in Switzerland came to study at NILE for two weeks in October, combining language development sessions focusing on the Cambridge BEC exam with trips to local industries and self-guided research into businesses in Norwich. This research culminated in presentations to other NILE students and staff, host families and members of the business community, demonstrating their English language proficiency and the depth of their research.

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0 comments | 12 November 2014 | Courses and Tailor-made Courses | Thom Kiddle