PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We invest in the people who stand in front of your learners
LAI develops teachers in the craft of teaching, and in a career with a serious academic future.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We invest in the people who stand in front of your learners
LAI develops teachers in the craft of teaching, and in a career with a serious academic future.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We invest in the people who stand in front of your learners
LAI develops teachers in the craft of teaching, and in a career with a serious academic future.
READINESS-DRIVEN GUIDANCE
READINESS-DRIVEN GUIDANCE
Guidance, exactly where it helps.
Guidance, exactly where it helps.
Because Nexus makes readiness visible, professional development becomes targeted: guidance that supports teachers’ own judgement about where to focus next and grounded in the teaching they already do, not generic workshops. Assessment standards remain independently protected.
Because Nexus makes readiness visible, professional development becomes targeted: guidance that supports teachers’ own judgement about where to focus next and grounded in the teaching they already do, not generic workshops. Assessment standards remain independently protected.
Greenwich-developed professional development
Greenwich-developed professional development
Development built with the University of Greenwich.
Development built with the University of Greenwich.
Teachers at LAI-approved centres gain access to professional development created with the University of Greenwich, designed to support the work they are already doing in the classroom. The focus is practical: assessment literacy, subject confidence, inclusive teaching, academic practice, and the secure delivery of the LAI Standard.
Teachers at LAI-approved centres gain access to professional development created with the University of Greenwich, designed to support the work they are already doing in the classroom. The focus is practical: assessment literacy, subject confidence, inclusive teaching, academic practice, and the secure delivery of the LAI Standard.
A development pathway, not just a course
A development pathway, not just a course
Room to grow, while you keep teaching.
Room to grow, while you keep teaching.
Development should not stop at short training. Through the University of Greenwich relationship, LAI-approved schools can offer teachers a pathway that may support progression into postgraduate study — including Master’s-level and doctoral-level routes — subject to the University’s entry requirements, programme availability and normal academic approval. LAI awards its own accredited programmes; the University of Greenwich supports teacher development, not the awarding of LAI accredited programmes.
Development should not stop at short training. Through the University of Greenwich relationship, LAI-approved schools can offer teachers a pathway that may support progression into postgraduate study — including Master’s-level and doctoral-level routes — subject to the University’s entry requirements, programme availability and normal academic approval. LAI awards its own accredited programmes; the University of Greenwich supports teacher development, not the awarding of LAI accredited programmes.
A standards community
A standards community
A school that joins LAI is not only adopting accredited programmes. It is joining a standards community where teachers continue to teach, continue to grow, and can see a serious academic future for themselves.
A school that joins LAI is not only adopting accredited programmes. It is joining a standards community where teachers continue to teach, continue to grow, and can see a serious academic future for themselves.
Recognitions
The Recognition Standard.
LAI gives its own awards through programmes accredited by City & Guilds. LAI works with academic partners, including the University of Greenwich, for teacher training, professional development and capacity building at LAI-approved schools. LAI accredited programmes hold IBCC equivalency in Pakistan, and an ECCTIS review is in progress. Recognition varies by country, institution, programme and applicant profile. See Recognition & Benchmarking for detail by market.
City & Guilds accredited programmes; LAI awards the programme.
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City & Guilds accredited programmes;
LAI awards the programme.
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City & Guilds accredited programmes; LAI awards the programme.
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