Connect: our online teaching platform

Connect splits whole classes into four groups. Two groups participate in live online teaching from two professional teachers, while the other two groups engage with independent asynchronous games and exercises, built exclusively by Dragons Teaching. Halfway through the lesson, the groups switch. This approach is great for absolute beginners.

The flexibility of the offering means that we can provide 1 teacher for smaller groups. It is recommended that we extend the live online teaching component for intermediate & advanced students.

Our engaging teaching staff are all very experienced at primary and secondary level.

All our teachers are currently teaching groups of students online and have undergone thorough and rigorous background checks to ensure safeguarding.

We are a team of 120 teachers that provide Mandarin, Spanish, French and Arabic lessons to students all over the world. All teachers receive ongoing training from a core educational team meaning that your students will be continually supported throughout their language journey.

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Our multi-lingual online teaching platforms all offer asynchronous learning as part of the lesson.

The curated content is aligned to the content covered by the live teacher, thus enabling students to effectively review what they have learnt.

The content, which is provided in Mandarin, Spanish, French and Arabic, has been created separately for primary and secondary school students.

The activities range from simple matching games to reading or listening exercises, so students quickly become familiar with the spoken and written language. Games consolidate vocabulary and use algorithms to ensure that words students find challenging reappear more often.

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Students will learn Mandarin, Spanish, French and Arabic either as beginners or as intermediate /advanced learners. Our teachers will be able to match students to the correct position in our curricula.

All our language curricula are aligned to primary and secondary school students. Whilst our teachers are required to teach according to a pre-agreed scheme of work, they also have flexibility to add their content.

Dragons Teaching has successfully published a wide range of textbooks and interactive resources which are endorsed by key educational organisations ( The Independent Schools Examinations Board, AQA and The Mandarin Excellence Program).

In September 2022, Dragons Teaching launched the ISEB’s new Global Online Assessment in Languages (GOAL), which is, initially, at two levels in Spanish and Mandarin and one level in Arabic.

GOAL is aimed at beginners and students who are at some stage in their first 50 hours of language learning.

The assessments are ideal for students of 8+ years, and represent a celebration of their language learning. Right now language students would need to wait later in their secondary school to get exam-board approved metrics aligned to their progress. GOAL cast a positive and realistic light on their progress at the all-important 1-50 hours of language learning, which represents about 30% of a typical middle school exam e.g. GCSE, IGCSE.