Recently LITU was requested by a high school to run a training course for their teachers on AdvancedReading-Writing and Essay Writing. The course was a kind of teacher-driven professional development activity. The teachers analyzed their own needs and specified what type of training they wanted. They were interested in gaining all sorts of skills required for teaching highly-motivated and above-average students: classroom management, instructional skills, and in improving their own language proficiency. This school is not quite typical in that it aims to become a world-class science school. In order to help with financial support and to encourage cooperation among peers, the school collaborated with a few local high schools, encouraging participants from them to join the training so that costs could be shared.