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Filbrit Training Centre Group
The FilBrit Training Centre group was started in 2016 and expanded rapidly. The group is owned and managed by directors who have wide experience of education and business in the UK, UAE and other countries. It has physical centres in many countries, including three in the United Arab Emirates and others in Europe, including Romania. Headquartered in Dubai, the group has well over 50 full-time staff and many part-timers. We provide face-to-face and online training, including courses accredited by CACHE/NCFE, British Council and Highfield.
The range of courses covers professional services, performing arts, cookery, foreign languages, teacher training, shadow teaching and health/caregivers.
From the very first training centre which ran a handful of short courses for which the training and administration was handled entirely by the two founders, our mission has been to provide high quality education at affordable prices. Our success is in very large part due to the excellent trainers we have and our efficient administration systems. We seek to provide an excellent educational support service for children and adults, so that they can be empowered, true achievers, for the workplace and for the future.
The FilBrit ethos is based on excellence: we aim both to provide it, and to develop it within our learners.
Our outstanding trainers and teachers support learning for the workplace, for schools, for nurseries and for our trainees’ own personal development – we have the highest standards of active, inspiring teaching to make sure you learn to be the best that you can be.
We aim to live up to our aim of helping people to be the best they can be.
Working with Dragonfly, Cardiff and Vale College, Ishraq and other partners, is an honour. It is a privilege to be part of the British Teaching Diploma family.
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PEDAGOGUE
PEDAGOGUE is a school services agency, specialising in teacher training.
PEDAGOGUE is based in Bangkok and it has been operating in Asia since 2012. PEDAGOGUE has supported Dragonfly Training in upskilling thousands of teachers and school leaders on both face-to-face and online training programmes. Working with Warwick University (UK), PEDAGOGUE also offers expertise in certified higher education programmes - including a highly successful PGCEi.
The BTD is an exciting new addition to PEDAGOGUE's portfolio of training options and the PEDAGOGUE team are delighted to be continuing, and expanding, their long association with Dragonfly Training.
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ISHRAQ Consultation and Development
ISHRAQ Consultation & Development was established in 2007 in Jordan. It operates in three main areas: Management Consultation, Training & Development, and Organizing conferences & forums.
ISHRAQ adheres in its operations and service provision to a high level of quality and professional standards relying on extensive experiences in accordance with international best practices.
ISHRAQ’s Vision is to be The Clients’ first Choice when it comes to consultancy and training services and their Mission aims to meet the customers’ requirements and exceed their expectations by following a clear work methodology, employing high caliper staff and following the best international practices.
ISHRAQ is partner to British Teaching Diploma and it offers The BTD programme as part of its services.
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Peter Davies
Peter Davies is an education consultant whose career spans several decades in various educational roles, including teaching from University to Primary School and including students with SEN.
Peter's core expertise over latter years has been in Leadership and Teacher coaching. He founded Class Measures and established the initial teacher licensure programme (PRPIL) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Peter has written widely on school development and family engagement, including publications for the OECD and The Education Partners (New York). He studied for a Doctorate in Education whilst qualifying as a chief coach with The National Institute for School Leadership in Washington, DC.
He has been employed in a number of senior coaching, management and accountability roles in several countries across three continents. He developed the school review protocols for Massachusetts Department of Education and the Aga Khan Development Network.
Peter is delighted to be joining Dragonfly Training Ltd. as an advisor and agent for their British Teaching Diploma in Africa and South Asia.
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Francis Jones
Francis Jones is an EFL practitioner and educational author who has three decades’ experience of teaching and training in the UK and around the world.
As a teacher, Francis has taught English schools and language academies in Spain, Italy and the UK, whilst his training has seen him delivering courses across a range of disciplines in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
A pioneer of delivering new technologies in the classroom, he was one of the first educators to present interactive whiteboard courses for teachers of English as a Foreign Language in the UK, while his co-written book, 400 Ideas for Interactive Whiteboards, published by MacMillan, has sold in its tens of thousands around the world.
Additionally, Francis has written and presented courses on the use of iPads and other mobile technologies for whole school and EFL; and Content, Language Integrated Learning at schools in the UK and worldwide.
As an experienced radio and television writer and producer, Francis has written and produced numerous radio and television programmes for the BBC. Having made a high number of comedy programmes and radio dramas, he has utilised his skills and experience to deliver creative writing courses to UK school pupils, whilst presenting the practitioners’ course to teachers in the UK and globally.
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Christian Bishop
Having spent the past 20 years teaching and leading in British International Schools, Christian Bishop specialises in leadership and developmental teaching and learning practices and helps schools to reflect upon their practice and see alternate, more impactful approaches. He is passionate about professional learning and has developed approaches within a school’s group of 54 schools.
During his time in schools, he has worked with Buckingham, Warwick and Sunderland Universities on their PGCE programmes, as mentor and professional practice consultant.
He has also worked with local education authorities in China and Hong Kong on teacher development and pedagogical change.
In his Leadership career his schools have been rated outstanding by ISI on three occasions and led Wellington College, Bangkok to become the only school Worldwide to be awarded Patron’s accreditation in its first year of operation.
His career has taken him from Kenya, Thailand, China and Hong Kong which has provided him with a great deal of experience of cultural diversity and expectations. He has delivered PGCE training, been a coach for Heads in South East Asia and facilitated the middle leadership development programme over the Asia region which has provided many schools with the essential provision for growing their own talent.