Improve Your Institution’s Efficiency, Resilience and Dynamic

What do you want to learn?
How do you want to learn?
How do you learn?

I’ll help you

Focus on your teachers

Tailored CPD sessions and packages
Coaching and mentoring

Focus on academic leadership training

Planning, delivering and providing feedback from observations
Team building
Conflict resolution
Communication
Syllabus design
Recruitment, induction and retention of staff, leadership skills, setting and maintaining high standards, etc.

Focus on lean management and agile leadership

Preparation for inspections (EAQUALS, British Council, ELT Council, etc.)
Academic health check (scrutinising your processes and procedures to develop an action plan)
Addressing key issues such as strategic planning, communication, developing a shared vision, leadership, etc.

Let me bring all my experience, understanding and insight to help you make your institution the very best it can be.

I offer support in a range of areas:

Teacher training and delivery of CPD ​

I’m accredited by the Malta ELT Council​

I provide bespoke teacher training sessions and courses. Some example CPD sessions are: ​

  • Teaching Pronunciation
  • Teaching Grammar
  • Skills Development
  • The Lexical Approach
  • Classroom Management
  • Professionalism as a Teacher
  • Error Correction
  • English Grammar
  • Developing Reflective Practice
  • Digital Learning Resources
  • Lesson Planning
  • Communicative Language Teaching
  • Putting the Learner First.
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Strategic development​

I consult with leaders and owners to improve the strategic performance of their institution.

Specifically, in the following areas:​

  • Strategic planning
  • Alignment
  • Protocols and procedures
  • Evidence-based performance evaluation
  • Reporting structure
  • Engagement in shared vision, ethos
  • Internal and external QA (Quality Assurance) frameworks
  • Objectivity and professionalism ​

Academic management training​

I provide bespoke training sessions for individual academic managers and/or the academic management team (from Senior Teacher, Coordinator, Centre Manager, ADOS, DOS, up to and including the Principal) with the aim of setting the highest management standards and ensuring they are sustained in the long term, thereby making the institution more efficient and, ultimately, improving the student experience and feedback.

Some examples of training focuses: ​

  • Observation training (peer, informal, developmental, formal/assessed)
  • Structuring and delivering in-house CPD
  • Problem solving via action learning
  • Staff appraisals
  • Recruitment and induction of new teachers
  • Conflict resolution
  • Effective communication
  • Student assessment and feedback
  • Developing the professional ethos
  • Team building and leadership
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Compliance
  • Effective staff meetings
  • Efficient working practices
  • Risk assessment​

Bespoke services: inspection success​

I also provide a tailored consultative service to address specific challenges your institution faces. One of the most common, and the most challenging, is achieving success in external inspection such as EAQUALS, British Council, ELT Council, Ofsted, etc.

I will work with you and your management team to evaluate your current status (for example, by carrying out a mock inspection), identify key areas for improvement, and then train your managers and teachers to ensure inspection success on the day.

Having inspected and been inspected, I’m ideally placed to help you to optimal performance.​

Testimonials

Maria, Academic Coordinator

 

“If you want to develop and upskill your academic managers, and to raise standards of teaching and learning across the board, you need Paul!”

"Paul carried out formal observation training with our academic management team, and it was excellent! He has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and cares deeply about high standards. Thanks to him, I understand observations should be systematic and evidence-led; I can collect appropriate evidence effectively and fairly, and use it to evaluate the quality of classroom teaching with specific reference to the learner experience. And I can give pedagogically-based, helpful and accurate feedback to my teachers framed in a way that doesn’t shirk a hard conversation but which remains supportive and human at all times.

So yes, I feel really confident as a classroom observer now. Paul’s method is direct, energetic, methodologically sound, and full of insight and tips, but he also listens to his trainees carefully: he’s very supportive in his approach. If you want to develop and upskill your academic managers, and to raise standards of teaching and learning across the board, you need Paul!"

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