Whether you’re planning lessons, developing new classroom strategies or advancing your career as an English language professional, you’ll find practical resources and professional development opportunities here.
TeachingEnglish supports inclusive, high-quality English teaching, learning and assessment for everyone.
We offer free training and teaching resources for English teachers and teacher educators. Through our courses, live webinars, lesson plans, articles, videos and online communities, you can:
Join the world’s largest online English teaching community and take the next step in your professional development.
Don’t miss our next expert-led webinars, packed full of practical tips and strategies for your classroom. Attendance certificate included.
Join us on Wednesday 15 July 2026 for a webinar exploring multilingual pedagogy, teacher leadership and collaborative professional development in multilingual contexts.
Webinar
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Join us on Wednesday 19 August 2026 for a webinar exploring how AI can be integrated into teacher education to support reflective and autonomous learning.
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Discover our latest lesson plans and topical classroom resources for primary, secondary and adult English learners.
This innovative video-based training package is designed for teacher educators working with pre-service and in-service English teachers in primary education.
Understanding teacher learning
Adopting inclusive practices
This lesson explores how single-use plastics can end up in the ocean, how they harm animals and people, and how we can reduce plastic waste.
9 - 12
B1
120 minutes (or two 60-minute lessons)
Use this child-friendly evaluation rubric to create shared understanding of plurilingual and intercultural competence.
5 - 12
A2
Using multilingual practices
Find free training courses open for enrolment now, all with a completion certificate. Each course includes a self-study workbook and access to our Facebook community, where you can get guidance from our expert tutors and other teachers.
Create meaningful, communicative tasks that promote learner autonomy and purposeful language use. This new course is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.
Engagement
9–12 hours
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End:
Knowing the subject
Planning lessons and courses
Develop your understanding of functional language and grammar and learn how to apply this knowledge to your teaching through reflection, analysis and effective presentation of use and form. Understanding language systems is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.
Understanding
9–12 hours
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Knowing the subject
Discover how primary children learn and apply this understanding to your classroom practice. Explore the role of assessment in the primary classroom and learn engaging, age-appropriate strategies for learner evaluation. Teaching English in primary is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.
Understanding
9–12 hours
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Understanding my learners
Assessing learning
Do you have a question about our free training courses for teachers? Find answers to our most frequently asked questions.
Professional development for teachers
Learn how to evaluate resources, select and adapt relevant lesson plans for your context and explore how your learners can be powerful resources in the classroom. This new course is open now – enrol until 24 March 2027.
Understanding
9–12 hours
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Planning lessons and courses
Understanding my learners
Understanding my context
Make your classroom a trauma-sensitive learning environment. Help your learners to shine by working creatively with limited resources and by managing challenging behaviour positively. This course is open now – enrol until 24 March 2027.
Engagement
9–12 hours
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Understanding my learners
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
Explore ways to help your learners think critically, listen with empathy and take positive action on real-world issues with our new video series for teachers.
Show how TeachingEnglish inspires you and your teaching community – share a one-minute video. Find out more information here.
10 mins
This group study guide for teachers and teacher educators looks at knowing the subject.
Publication
Knowing the subject
