TEACHER TRAINING.
Opportunities for teachers to continue professional development via online and in-person CPD courses
Enhance your classroom skills with our wide range of teacher training opportunities. You can explore Shakespeare’s plays in their performance context, develop socially conscious approaches to key texts and build your practical toolkit for engaging your students in the classroom. Choose from our publicly available workshops or work with us to develop a bespoke solution for your department or school.
UNLOCK OUR PRODUCTIONS
Delve deeper into the plays currently on our stages with our production-focussed CPD sessions, which include a ticket to see the play.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Richard III at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students’ understanding of the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You’ll complete your experience by watching a matinee performance of Richard III.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Much Ado About Nothing at Key Stage 4
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You’ll complete your experience by watching a matinee performance of Much Ado About Nothing.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Taming of the Shrew at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You'll complete your experience by watching an evening performance of The Taming of the Shrew.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Antony & Cleopatra at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You'll complete your experience by watching an evening performance of Antony and Cleopatra.
EXPLORE KEY TEXTS
Develop practical ways to engage your students with Shakespeare in our key text CPDs, focussing on some of the most popular plays studied at each Key Stage. Join us in person or online and equip yourself with tools to enhance your teaching.
Key Stage 4
For teachers working with 14-16 year olds
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Macbeth at Key Stage 4
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS4. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s context, study key moments of the text in performance, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Much Ado About Nothing at Key Stage 4
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You’ll complete your experience by watching a matinee performance of Much Ado About Nothing.
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Much Ado About Nothing at Key Stage 4
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS4. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Merchant of Venice at Key Stage 4
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS4. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s context, study key moments of the text in performance, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.
Key Stage 5
For teachers working with 16-18 year olds
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Richard III at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students’ understanding of the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You’ll complete your experience by watching a matinee performance of Richard III.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Antony & Cleopatra at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You'll complete your experience by watching an evening performance of Antony and Cleopatra.
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Taming of the Shrew at Key Stage 5
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS5. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Taming of the Shrew at Key Stage 5
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You'll complete your experience by watching an evening performance of The Taming of the Shrew.
Key Themes
Join us in person or online for a focus on key themes to boost your teaching.
Anti-Racist Shakespeare: Teacher Continuing Professional Development
Learn new skills in this practical, three-hour workshop, designed for secondary English and Drama teachers. Examine extracts through the lens of anti-racism and identify parallel occurrences in contemporary society, to develop a practical toolkit for working with your students.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Shakespeare and Women
Develop your approach to facilitating classroom conversations about sexism, misogyny, and depictions of women by focusing on four women in Shakespeare’s plays – Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice and Hero. This workshop is designed for Secondary English and Drama teachers.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Shakespeare and Sexuality
Learn new skills in this practical, three-hour workshop, designed for Secondary English and Drama teachers. Use academic and practical tools to analyse where Shakespeare’s works illuminate the queer culture of his own time, and reveal how ‘queering’ the performance of Shakespeare’s plays can unlock further meaning.
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Shakespeare and Sexuality
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for Secondary English and Drama teachers. Use academic and practical tools to analyse where Shakespeare’s works illuminate the queer culture of his own time, and reveal how ‘queering’ the performance of Shakespeare’s plays can unlock further meaning.
BESPOKE CPD FOR SCHOOLS
Opportunities for teachers to continue professional development via in-person CPD courses
We travel to your organisation to deliver bespoke training days to meet your specific needs.
Courses can be devised to meet your particular curriculum requirements and staff development needs.
Sessions can be run for selected members of staff or whole departments, or you can book our practitioners for whole school inset days.
Sessions can be tailored for teachers and trainee teachers of Key Stages 1 – 5, across a range of subjects.
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For more information or to arrange a CPD for your organisation, email or call us on 020 7902 1463.
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Discover More Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Much Ado About Nothing at Key Stage 4
Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students' understanding of the play's characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills. You’ll complete your experience by watching a matinee performance of Much Ado About Nothing.
Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Shakespeare and Sexuality
Learn new skills in this practical, three-hour workshop, designed for Secondary English and Drama teachers. Use academic and practical tools to analyse where Shakespeare’s works illuminate the queer culture of his own time, and reveal how ‘queering’ the performance of Shakespeare’s plays can unlock further meaning.
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Macbeth at Key Stage 4
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS4. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s context, study key moments of the text in performance, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.
Online Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Taming of the Shrew at Key Stage 5
Learn new skills in this online workshop, designed for secondary teachers with a particular focus on KS5. The session will offer exciting and creative techniques you can use to explore the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and facilitate students’ analysis of the production.