School Development Courses

Improve your business — invest in your teachers

School Development Courses

Investing in your staff will improve their teaching as well as improving your business and you will find funding is probably available

You can help your staff develop their teaching and related skills in areas which will specifically benefit your organisation. We negotiate the specific aims of each course or programme with you to ensure it is relevant, practical and cost effective. Our leadership courses are also suitable for admin staff. The best solutions for your school’s needs could be any of these or a combination:

A tailor-made Teacher Development course for your staff (online, blended, face to face in your school)
One of our Teacher Development courses run as a closed group course for your staff (online, blended, face to face in your school)
Individual members of staff or a group from your school attending one of our open teacher development courses face to face or online

The Trainers

Our team of trainers are all Trinity Diploma in TESOL or DELTA qualified as a minimum and have a wealth of experience in training teachers in a wide range of contexts. They include established writers and conference speakers, capable of providing inspiration as well as practical ideas and support. Our team includes Lindsay Clandfield, Adrian Underhill, Duncan Foord, Ceri Jones and Nicola Meldrum. Our approach is to work closely with the sponsor school to ensure that what we offer is appropriate and practical for your context.

School Development Course Case studies

Working with English Teachers in Shenzhen, China

Oxford TEFL helped Primary and Secondary school teachers to adapt their dry coursebooks to make them more engaging, and showed them how to make the Communicative Approach work with classes of 50+. Read this case study →

Skills improvement for a Barcelona language school

Bringing together off-site teachers for training sessions also strengthened them as a team. Read this case study →

Testimonials

As a teacher one has a choice between stagnation after initial training, or continually revitalizing the initial certificate to enable ones own EFL knowledge to flourish. Oxford TEFL online CPD courses are tailored around the individual. Highly supportive tutors and methodical course structure demand enough to push one forward, but not so much one is lost under cascading and lost information. I have completed several courses and can confidently claim they have helped my class planning, performance and professionalism. You get what you pay for in life and here it’s worth every coin!

Our school, English for Business, has done most of our teacher training activities with Oxford TEFL. They designed several workshops and short courses to meet our needs and have been proactive in suggesting ideas too. It’s not easy to remember all the subjects they’ve researched and delivered for us but they include “Teaching One to One”, “Dealing with Mixed Levels in a Group”, “Using Technology in Class”, “Time Management for Teachers”, “Lesson Planning”, “The Flipped Classroom” and many others. Our teachers have been very pleased with the results and we have found that our investment in Oxford TEFL courses has had a high return. We’ve worked with Oxford TEFL for over twenty years and plan to keep on doing so in the future.

School Development Courses