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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 for the play

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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Macbeth at Key Stage 4

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An exciting and creative session aimed at equiping secondary teachers with insights and in-depth knowledge of our production of Macbeth, to empower your teaching of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Duchess of Malfi

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of John Webster’s seminal revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello and Anti-Racism

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with new skills and tools to build an anti-racist approach to teaching Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy, Othello, in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello and Gender

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with new skills and tools to build an approach to teaching Othello in the classroom that explores Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy through the lens of gender.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello at A-Level

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy Othello, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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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.

KEY STAGE 3

For teachers working with 11-14 year olds

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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream at KS3

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to enhance your teaching of Shakespeare in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Twelfth Night at KS3

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to enhance your teaching of Shakespeare in the classroom.
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KEY STAGE 4

For teachers working with 14-16 year olds

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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Macbeth at Key Stage 4

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Romeo and Juliet at KS4

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Merchant of Venice at KS4

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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KEY STAGE 5

For teachers working with 16-18 year olds

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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Doctor Faustus at KS5

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Christopher Marlowe’s early modern tragedy, Doctor Faustus, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Measure for Measure at KS5

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s complex late play, Measure for Measure, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Taming of The Shrew at KS5

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Join this Continuous Professional Development session on The Taming of the Shrew, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
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BESPOKE CPD FOR SCHOOLS

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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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CONTACT US

For more information or to arrange a CPD for your organisation, email or call us on 020 7902 1463.

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ANTI-RACIST SHAKESPEARE

A series of free webinars examining Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of race and social justice

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PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK

Access free resources and find out more about our annual project for schools

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TEACHING RESOURCES

Explore our range of engaging teaching resources for all ages and levels

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ALL EVENTS

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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream at KS3

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to enhance your teaching of Shakespeare in the classroom.
Teacher Training
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Twelfth Night at KS3

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to enhance your teaching of Shakespeare in the classroom.
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Romeo and Juliet at KS4

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Merchant of Venice at KS4

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Macbeth at Key Stage 4

Bankside
An exciting and creative session aimed at equiping secondary teachers with insights and in-depth knowledge of our production of Macbeth, to empower your teaching of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
A close up of a hand touching a mirror. The mirror is covered in water which distorts the reflection. The text "Teaching Othello and gender" is superimposed in the top left

Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello and Gender

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with new skills and tools to build an approach to teaching Othello in the classroom that explores Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy through the lens of gender.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello and Anti-Racism

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with new skills and tools to build an anti-racist approach to teaching Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy, Othello, in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Othello at A-Level

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy Othello, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching The Duchess of Malfi

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of John Webster’s seminal revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
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Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Taming of The Shrew at KS5

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on The Taming of the Shrew, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
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A red block of colour fading to black at the edges, with white lines representing the lines of a notebook printed in the bottom left. The words "Teaching Doctor Faustus Key Stage 5" are superimposed over the top left

Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Doctor Faustus at KS5

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Christopher Marlowe’s early modern tragedy, Doctor Faustus, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more
A red block of colour fading to black at the edges, with diagonal white lines representing the lines of a notebook printed at the bottom. The words "Teaching Measure for Measure Key Stage 5" are superimposed in the top left

Continuing Professional Development: Teaching Measure for Measure at KS5

Bankside
Join this Continuous Professional Development session on Shakespeare’s complex late play, Measure for Measure, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.
Teacher Training
Book Now Discover more