International Schools Blog

The start of a new school year is a great time to sharpen your professional teaching skills with the latest offering from Pearson. The Teacher Education & Leadership Academy (TELA) builds on Pearson’s professional learning programs for K–12 and English as a Foreign Language teachers. The programmes offer training that can be used for self-study, taken with a virtual instructor, or delivered as a blended programme with face-to-face sessions.

Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is an important part of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme, providing an opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know. Here are tips 6-10 in Ric Sim’s top ten tips for teaching TOK in your classroom. Missed tips 1-5? Find them here.

Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is an important part of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme, providing an opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know. In this article, IB expert Ric Sims shares his first five top tips for teaching TOK in your classroom.

With over 1,000 registrations for our recent Translanguaging webinar (if you missed it, you can watch the recording on demand and download the slide deck), it’s clear that planning for multiple languages in the classroom is an important issue many of you want to know more about.

The term translanguaging has burst upon the applied linguistics and educational sector in the last years.

The benefits of being bi/multilingual are getting a lot of press these days, and parents are increasingly interested in ensuring that their children master more than their home language. In many cases, this means that parents are eager to have their children learn English earlier. This often prompts a choice for an English-only school, with the expectation that this will lead to the best results. How schools approach the task of educating children who do not speak the language varies, with regulations ranging from ‘English-only’ to multilingual classrooms.

As learners around the world continue to learn from home, we held four free webinars to help you continue to teach maths and English online. You can watch the recordings on demand here.

During this difficult time, we know that it can be challenging to find the right support to help you and your learners move forward with distance learning.

At the moment, nearly half of the world’s population is living under lockdown. Millions of people are unable to go to work, and many are working from home for the first time. For some, working online comes with some benefits: there’s more flexibility, and many people are getting to spend more time connecting with loved ones. But for many teachers, who are used to spending their days standing in front of a class, working at home is a foreign concept – and it can be easy to fall into bad habits. 

Many international school teachers are having to move teaching quickly online. To help you find your way, we’ve put together seven strategies based on research that will help set you and your learners up for success in your new online teaching and learning environment. You’ll also find some useful tips here.