Training courses
Take part in a variety of free training courses on our teacher development platform. Explore a range of topics, from assessing learners to planning a great lesson. Study at your own pace and join our Facebook community to share your learning with other teachers and get feedback and guidance from our experienced tutors.
Find out about all our courses running in 2026 by downloading our 2026 training courses calendar.
9–12 hours
Engagement
TeachingEnglish: How to teach listening
Improve your understanding of how people listen and learn to plan effective, engaging listening activities. Explore key listening skills, solve common teaching challenges and develop strategies to support both your learners and your own active listening. How to teach listening is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.
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9–12 hours
Engagement
TeachingEnglish: Assessing learning
Help all your learners benefit from and get actively involved in assessment in the language classroom. Assessing learning is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.
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9–12 hours
Integration
TeachingEnglish: Classroom research
Discover how to reflect on and explore issues in your teaching context, plan and carry out a small-scale classroom research project and communicate your findings effectively. Classroom research will open on 1 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
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TeachingEnglish: Focus on professional development
Take control of your professional growth by exploring the wide range of development opportunities available to you as a teacher and discover how to maximise their impact through collaboration and reflective practice. Focus on professional development will open on 1 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
Integration
TeachingEnglish: Building understanding through dialogue
Create positive relationships and effective communication in your classroom by exploring techniques to develop empathy, critical thinking and intercultural competence. Building understanding through dialogue will open on 1 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
TeachingEnglish: Including learners' languages
Use your learners' existing languages to support their learning of English, and discover how valuing and celebrating home languages in the classroom enhances learning while promoting inclusion and equity. This new course will open on 2 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
Integration
Digital competences for teaching English
Discover how to integrate digital tools to support language learning, collaboration, formative assessment and effective feedback. Improve your digital communication skills and teamwork in your professional context and learn about online continuing professional development. Digital competences for teaching English will open on 2 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
Engagement
Climate action in language education
Learn to integrate environmental issues in English language teaching and develop the skills you need to take and sustain meaningful and impactful action to protect the environment in your local context. This updated course will open on 2 October 2026 – enrol now.
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9–12 hours
Understanding
TeachingEnglish: Classroom management for primary
Give your primary learners the best environment to learn English by improving your management of instructions, learning activities, resources and physical space. Classroom management for primary will open on 5 October 2026 – enrol now.
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TeachingEnglish: Feedback and error correction
Identify why learners make errors and respond to them effectively in the classroom. Develop the skills to give meaningful feedback that supports learning and confidently apply a range of feedback and error correction techniques. This new course will open on 5 October 2026 – enrol now.
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