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Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

In this section you can find useful articles, webinars, publications and tips to help you support teachers' ongoing professional development.

Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

To support teachers’ ongoing professional development, teacher educators should be able to:

  • explain, in a manner that motivates teachers, the value of professional development
  • increase teachers’ awareness and experience of a range of individual and collaborative professional development activities, including those that make use of technology
  • advise and mentor teachers, including through developmental lesson observations and post-lesson discussions
  • provide regular opportunities for teachers to develop their reflective skills
  • guide teachers in defining their own career goals and identifying professional development action plans to support these goals.

 

Find useful resources

Based on research into peer observation systems that work (and ones that don't) this webinar seeks to present some ideas for helping make your school's peer observation system as successful and useful as possible, thereby developing both the school itself and the teachers in it.

Webinar

Whether you are a teacher, a teacher trainer or an ELT manager, this highly relevant session provides a summary of both coaching and mentoring skills, which can be used to help people achieve their language learning goals, professional development objectives, and/or career ambitions.

Webinar

Research and insight

Browse fascinating case studies, research papers, publications and books by researchers and ELT experts from around the world.

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