The School for Training is my small specialist teacher development institute in Barcelona, providing courses of the highest quality for teachers from all over the world. The School for Training gives teachers the training to meet their students’ needs and promote positive change in the classroom and beyond. Teachers learn to think deeply, critically […]
Projects
I have founded a number of projects including the award-winning resource website Film English, the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language learning, The Image Conference, and a community of practice, The Visual Arts Circle.
Film English is a resource website for teachers and students which promotes the innovative and creative use of film in English language teaching and learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes film literacy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers film literacy […]
The Image Conference is an innovative and collaborative project which seeks to explore the possibilities which film, video, images and video games offer to both language teachers and language learners.The Image Conference brings together leading experts and practitioners in the use of images in language learning who share their experiences, insights and know-how and provides participants […]
Anna Whitcher and I are the founders of the Visual Arts Circle, a community of practice made up of language teaching professionals, teachers, teacher trainers, writers, editors, researchers, designers, illustrators, artists, photographers, and filmmakers, all with a shared belief in the value of visual arts – drawing, painting, sculpture, design, crafts, photography, video, and filmmaking […]