- This event has passed.
BSA webinar – Boarding box set: Getting it right for international students
- Date: January 25, 2022
- Time: 12:00 – 13:00
- Cost: Full Member – £60 / Additional Full Member – £15, Affiliate Member – £90 / Additional Affiliate Member – £20, Non-member – £120
- Audience: All those currently holding or aspiring to boarding leadership positions
- Platform: Zoom (online)
BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed for boarding staff and school leaders giving them a broad overview series of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series would be ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’.
This set will be £500 for a member series place.
The session will give an overview of how to support international students in boarding schools both in the UK and internationally. it will cover strategies for teaching students whose first language is not English, pastoral strategies for integrating international students into the boarding house and ideas for whole school EAL policies. It is suitable for Heads of EAL, Heads of Boarding, HoDs as well as teachers and boarding staff.
Training topics will include:
- Teaching strategies to support non-native speakers
- Pastoral strategies for integrating and supporting international students
- Whole school policies regarding EAL and integration
Learning outcomes:
- A clearer understanding of what can be done by teachers and boarding staff to support international students in boarding schools
Speaker: Caroline Nixon, International Director, BSA Group and Director, BAISIS
Caroline has worked in international education for 30 years. As Caroline Nixon Education, she has worked on many successful projects including helping UK schools to establish new overseas branches, advising an international school opening in the UK, assisting an educational group to set up a guardianship agency, and advising schools on academic and pastoral provision for their international students.
Before becoming a consultant, Caroline was Principal of Taunton School International and set up a new school for international children aged 8-14. She was also responsible for the international marketing of, and admissions into, Taunton School.
Caroline is also Director, BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students), a member of the British Council International Education Advisory Group, and a member of the advisory group to the British Government’s All Party Parliamentary Group for international students.
Other titles in this series:
- Market overview September 23
- Inspection October 07
- Inclusion & diversity November 29
- Marketing & admissions January 18
- Getting it right for international students January 25
- Visas and immigration February 28
- Safeguarding culture March 24
- Boarding house management April 26
- Wellbeing and staff support May 12
- Induction and outduction June 07
- Common ‘in house’ medical questions July 01
