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Plan ahead for your next year.

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. 

Plan ahead and explore all our new CPDs below ready for your new school year.

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Teaching Othello at A-Level.

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.

Aimed at Key Stage 5.

10.00am, 25 January 2024.

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Teaching Othello and Anti-Racism.

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.

Aimed at secondary school teachers.

10.00am, 6 February 2024.

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Teaching Othello and Gender.

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.

Aimed at secondary school teachers.

10.00am, 29 February 2024.

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Teaching The Duchess of Malfi.

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.

Aimed at Key Stage 5.

10.00am, 1 March 2024.

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Enhance your teaching of Macbeth.

Empower your teaching of Macbeth with a Continuing Professional Development session focused on Key Stage 4. Learn creative techniques to engage students with the play’s context, key themes and analysis of this summer’s production. You’ll finish by watching a performance of Macbeth in the Globe and receive a complimentary programme and resource pack.

31 August & 7 October

Explore Key Texts.

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CPDs for Key Stage 3

Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your student's understanding of a play, looking at context, themes and imagery.

Plays covered:

Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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CPDs for Key Stage 4

Develop your toolkit for support your students through their exams and discover practical ways to explore the themes and language of the play.

Plays covered:

Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth

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CPDs for Key Stage 5

Enhance your student's understanding of the plays with practical, rehearsal room techniques and ways to develop their critical thinking skills.

Plays covered:

Doctor Faustus
Measure For Measure
The Taming of the Shrew

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We are delighted to announce that Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank will return for its 18th year in 2024, with Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare’s famous tragedy of love and violence comes to life on the Globe stage in a gripping new 90-minute production, created especially for young people, with specially created student workshops, teacher CPDs and resources designed to support the curriculum.

The production in the Globe Theatre will be directed by Shakespeare’s Globe’s Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson, whose recent production of Midsummer Mechanicals was nominated for a 2023 Olivier Award.

Applications for the free-to-access project open on 4 September with over 26,000 tickets available for pupils aged 11 – 16 in London and Birmingham state schools. Applications for subsidised tickets for all UK schools will be available from 2 October.

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Apply for our curtain raiser competition.

There's still time to enter our exciting curtain raiser competition in connection with 2024's Playing Shakespeare production of Romeo and Juliet. If your students would love the thrilling opportunity to perform on the Globe stage before a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and benefit from rehearsals with our talented Globe Education Practitioners, make sure you enter by 22nd September 2023. 

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Register to watch the stream for Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: The Tempest.

Register now and have access until 22 December. This stream features integrated British Sign Language, enhancing the poetry, richness and beauty of Shakespeare’s language. Available for free to all schools nationwide.