Training

On this page you can find links to information about LATE’s webinars, seminars and more. Click on the links below for more information.


Winter Training Day 2023

LATE’s 7th Winter Teacher Professional Development Day (TPDD) “Advancing Teachers’ Professional Competence and Self-Efficacy” was held online on 29th December 2023 from 9:00 – 15:30.

You can see the programme here.

Teachers who participated in all the sessions received a TPDD course certificate for 8 hours.

This was a free event for LATE teachers.


Winter Training Day 6: 30 Years Together:
Looking Forwards – Professional Perspectives.

Our sixth annual Winter Training Day was held on Wednesday the 4th January 2023.

Teachers who participated in all the sessions received a Teacher Professional Development course certificate for 8 hours.

This was a free online event for LATE teachers. You can see the programme here.


Writing Seminars

Our Vice-President, Robert Buckmaster, ran a series of three 4 hour seminars on Writing for high school teachers in September and October 2022 on our Zoom platform.


Winter Training Day 5: Setting Goals; Meeting Goals. Whose Responsibility is it?

Wednesday, 29th December 2021 from 9:00 to 15:00.

This was a free training event for LATE members. You can download the event programme here. Teachers who participated in all the sessions received Teacher Professional Development certificates for 8 hours.


LATE/OUP Online Teacher Training Event

LATE and OUP ran a joint Teacher Professional Development Day on 17th May 2021 entitled ‘Developing Engagement in a Period of Change: Visible Thinking and Building Core Vocabulary’. You can read the programme here.


LATE Online Teacher Training Event

LATE held an online Teacher Training event entitled “Developing Engagement in a Period of Change: Elaborating Writing and Reading Skills” on Thursday, 21st January 2021 from 15:00 – 18:00. The workshops were conducted by our well-known trainers Tatjana Kunda and Anna Beļska. Click here for the programme of the event. Participants received a Teacher Professional Development certificate (4 hours).


Winter Training Day 4: Developing Engagement in a Period of Change

LATE held its fourth winter seminar on the 29th December 2020 online on Zoom. One hundred and thirty-six participants took part in the event.


Training Day 3: Innovative Teaching Methods to Promote a Contemporary Learning Process

LATE held its third January Seminar on the 3rd of January 2020 at Riga Secondary School No. 34. Eighty teachers attended the event to see speakers talk on a variety of topics.


LATE Liepaja Conference 2019 “Changes and Challenges: English Language Teaching and 21st Century Skills”

 Wednesday, 23rd October 2019. 


Webinar 4: Projects for Young Learners


Winter Training Day 2: Innovative Teaching Methods to Promote a Contemporary Learning Process

LATE held its second January Seminar on 4 January 2019 at Riga Teika Secondary School. Fifty-five teachers braved the snow and cold to attend five seminars on a variety of topics.


Webinar 3: 21st Century Fox: Media Literacies


Latvia and Estonia joint seminar in Valka

Friday, November 2, was a significant day for Vidzeme region teachers from Valka, Strenči, Valmiera, Smiltene (Latvia) and Valga Municipality teachers (Estonia) as there was a fantastic opportunity for the teachers of English to take part in a joint seminar organized by Pearson Latvia, Pearson Estonia and LATE in Valka Janis Cimze Gymnasium.


Webinar 2: Riveting Revision + Overcoming Exam Anxiety


The Development and Assessment of Writing Skills at Secondary Level 8th February at Riga Teika Secondary School.


Winter Training Day 1: Innovative Teaching Methods to Promote a Contemporary Learning Process

LATE held its first January Seminar: Innovative Teaching Methods to Promote a Contemporary Learning Process at Riga State Gymnasium No 1, Raina Bulvaris 8 on the 6th January 2018.


Webinar 1: “Pronunciation: Teaching techniques beyond drilling to boost your learners’ intelligibility”

by James Egerton, 27th October 2017