Georg-Büchner-High School has established a bilingual teaching programme years ago. C.L.I.L. in the subjects Geography, History and Politics as well as extended language teaching since then have become the foundations of the schools academic profile. In addition, GBG offers a wide range of language-related courses and extra-curriculars to its students such as Business English for Year 9, Debating Courses and Cambridge Exam Preparation that our students willingly immerse into. Recently the school has strengthened its efforts to focus more on their international relations. Exchange programmes and European liaison are to become an even more vital part of the school's mission. In order to keep up and improve the quality of teaching in this international context, it is inevitable to systematically train the staff. The following fields of development have been identified as most pressing: Due to the recently remodelled A-level examinations (new national standards valid from 2017), there is a shift in focus from written to oral performance in the A-Level English courses that the staff needs to be prepared for. The school's Business English courses for year 9 have become one of the most attractive extra-curriculars, with nearly all of the participants being certified by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the end of the course. It is the students' long-time wish and the schools goal to extend the course into the Sixth-Form, as we are convinced that the skills the students acquire in these courses, are most valuable for their future academic and professional development in a European context. GBG can only offer additional courses if adequate training is provided for our staff. Additionally our C.L.I.L teachers hope for new impulses and contacts to advance the school's curriculum and the teacher's methodology in order to improve teaching in the bilingual subjects. Finally our senior staff in the governing body feel the need to prepare themselves for working closer with our international partners and hope to get better insights in the work of headmasters in British schools. Consequently five members of staff are to participate in training courses in the U.K. between 2014 and 2016. All participants will provide their colleagues with the essential knowledge and materials acquired in these courses and must be willing to continuously improve their teaching also after the mobility. At least one member of the school's governing body will be among the teachers sent abroad . One teacher will attend a course focussing on oral fluency in the language classroom and another teacher will be trained in Business English. Two teachers will take a C.L.I.L. course and one senior member of staff will attend a course designed for the exchange between European headteachers. The results of the mobilities are supposed to strengthen the school's bilingual profile. Furthermore will the outcome be recognized as an essential component of our school's effort to cooperate with a number of primary schools in the surrounding area. With respect to our international contacts we hope for laying the basis for strategically well-designed partnerships. All projects, teaching and foreign exchanges will be evaluated internally and externally, in a way that they can be continuously improved when necessary.