Giving is Caring

Always remember:

The value of time, the success of perseverance, the worth of character, the power of kindness, the influence of example, and the obligation of duty.



Monday 30 December 2019

Maria Luisa Mu´s blog: Happy New Year !!!

Maria Luisa Mu´s blog: Happy New Year !!!:     I read this a long time ago and could not write down the name of the author because of the state of the paper where it had be...

Merry Christmas !!!


My Christmas present:

Gratitude for what I received from all of you, for what I achieved, for your good will, your blessings and above all your love and friendship. 

Tuesday 19 November 2019

XXI CTS Academic event

Dear all
Please join us in our last event of the year. We will count on the expertise of lecturers from RELO Andes and MINEDU to wrap up our year devoted to Formative Assessment. 
We would love to receive your feedback and suggestions of academic topics for 2020. You are all very welcome!! 

Friday 9 August 2019

XX CTS Academic Event


Correction is a question of balance, students know they need help to support their learning. This workshop will help you to choose when and how to correct and what approaches to take. It will also provide some useful tips to guide you through the skill of correcting errors.  




Friday 26 July 2019

International Teacher Development Conference


UDEP International Development Conference

I really like to exchange ideas with colleagues about different issues related to improving our effectiveness at making students learn how to learn. It is refreshing to know that there are many of us on the same page and that we care enough to invest time in improving our abilities to support learning.

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Some mementos of our last Academic Event

On May 25th, Customized Training Services held our XIX Academic Event. We need to thank all those who made this possible: our participants, Macmillan, NUTESA and our two lecturers Ms. Liliana Burga and Ms Ellen Berry. Special thanks to RELO Andes for their FORUM magazines and for allowing the participation of their fellow Ms Ellen Berry. 


Thursday 2 May 2019

CTS Academic event

On May 25, Customized Training Services will offer its XIX Academic event. The theme of this year is Evaluation so it is natural to develop the two sessions on providing feedback as part of Formative Assessment. 

The first session will be about Feedback for Writing and the second about Feedback for Speaking. We have the pleasure to count on the expertise of Ms Ellen Burry, English Language Fellow (RELO Andes)  and Ms Liliana Burga, a teacher with many years of experience. 

As always, we keep the number of attendees short because our workshops are hands-on and we really want our CTS family to take full advantage of these events so hurry and register as soon as possible. 

Friday 26 April 2019


Public policy of English teaching in Peru expects students to end their school training with a B1 level of proficiency and that teachers of English demonstrate a B2 level, at least. How can we make this possible? One way is for teachers to train to obtain the B2:First (formerly known as FCE) Certificate from Cambridge Assessment.
Towards this end, Customized Training Services has designed a blended course to help our colleagues obtain this Certification with the quality, support and care of all the courses we have launched along these years.
We know how to help you improve your teaching career. Contact us at the numbers and mail addresses provided below, we will be very pleased to hear from you.

Tuesday 23 April 2019

Pre-FCE Online Course

Official international Certificates are a very useful tool to study abroad or to demonstrate a specific Language level when applying for a job. In the job field some of the most commonly required Certificates are the ones issued by Cambridge Assessment English, particularly B2: First (previously known as FCE).
Over five million people in the world sit for Cambridge exams which measure basic skills when using a language: reading, listening, speaking and writing. First thing to do before becoming familiar with the exam structure is to reach the required level of proficiency in the language. That is why we have designed this Pre-FCE course where we will present and practice some of the most important language structures that are being assessed in the B2: First exam. Therefore, taking this course will allow participants to kill two birds with one stone: improve their Grammar proficiency and advance in their exam preparation. We can help you, contact us.

Monday 1 April 2019

Due to the success of the XVII event on Formative Assessment and Elaboration of Rubrics, we have been asked to open a short course on Elaboration of Rubrics. We are sure you will find it pretty useful.


Sunday 17 March 2019

Tools for Formative Assessment


This session will have two parts: the First Part will be about strategies and tools for formative assessment and the second will help participants with the preparation of Rubrics. In both cases we will be taken into account the recent guidelines given by MINEDU.
 

Sunday 10 March 2019


Our Sixth Summer Course (Online version) has come to an end and we are really pleased to have had participants who have worked really hard to complete the tasks. Here is a summary of their production:



Made with Padlet

Friday 25 January 2019

Sixth Summer Course for Top Teachers of English

We are really proud of our students´performance






Made with Padlet

Monday 14 January 2019


What is the Pre- FCE course about?

This is an online course that aims at supporting people who have an Intermediate level of English and are interested in refreshing their knowledge and also for those who want to start their Cambridge First exam preparation. The course develops the main grammatical structures an Intermediate student should master as well as the vocabulary based on the topics that Cambridge First exam assesses.

Being a customized course, participants will sit for a diagnostic test at the beginning of the course and will receive weekly material and  online tutoring to help them meet their needs. At the end of the course, an achievement test will be administered to measure progress.





Wednesday 2 January 2019

Sixth Summer Course

Topics for the Sixth Summer Course for Top English Language Teachers - 2019


The topics of our Sixth Summer Course rely on the principles for teaching in the 21st Century. We cannot teach in the same way we learned the language when we first encountered it. The demands of the new Century oblige us to cater for different needs and perhaps, one of the most important ones is to create an environment that is conducive to learning.
In this Module we will deal with learning strategies, learning styles and multiple intelligences to make differentiation a useful criteria for helping our students learn and use the recently acquired knowledge. 

Communication really matters!. In fact, it is one of the four Cs of education in the 21st Century and it takes place in so many ways that we need to catch up with the different purposes and tools that are currently in use so as to communicate for global understanding.

If teaching in the 21st Century implies the development of the four C´s (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity), it also implies the development of information and media literacy for which we need to use the tools available through connectivity. There are free tools we can exploit to introduce the real world in our classrooms so as to make language learning really meaningful and memorable.

All this came to our minds when we decided and surveyed the possible topics for our 2019 Summer Course. As usual, CTS demands  full commitment for this hands-on event and provides plenty of time for putting into practice what students have just been introduced.

Welcome to this interesting and useful event!!!