World Teachers' Day | TeachingEnglish | British Council

World Teachers’ Day takes place every year on 5 October. To celebrate this event, each year British Council TeachingEnglish organises an online event featuring a number of webinars by renowned speakers to support teachers in their professional development. Choose a year below to see the webinars from World Teachers’ Day for each year.

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World Teachers' Day 2023

Our World Teachers’ Day online event for 2023 takes place over three days. Starting on World Teachers’ Day on Thursday 5 October and finishing on Saturday 7 October, this web conference will include over twenty sessions for teachers and teacher educators, and feature speakers from across the globe.

World Teachers' Day 2022

Watch recordings from our annual online World Teachers' Day event, celebrating teachers worldwide.

World Teachers' Day 2021

watch recordings from eight online talks on TeachingEnglish to celebrate World Teachers' Day 2021.

World Teachers' Day 2020

Watch all of the recordings from our 2020 World Teachers' Day web conference, in partnership with IATEFL

World Teachers' Day 2019

On Saturday 5 October 2019, we ran our World Teachers' Day web conference in collaboration with IATEFL.

World Teachers' Day 2018

To celebrate World Teachers' Day on 5 October 2018, we ran a series of five webinars throughout the day, each one dealing with a key issue in English Language Teaching.

World Teachers' Day 2017

Watch webinar recordings from our 2017 World Teachers’ Day celebration.

World Teachers' Day 2016

The Teaching for Success Online Conference delivered a wide range of engaging and insightful presentations covering all aspects of professional development for teachers in all contexts.

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