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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.

 

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Andy Hockley looks at how the digital world is affecting learning and the way we manage education. He provides some useful advice on what to consider and how to plan for online education management.

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This article presents an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, A Padwad and K Dixit, outline practical issues they discovered during their innovative think tank project.

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This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, R Smith, T Connelly and P Rebolledo, explore teacher-research as continuing professional development.

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This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the author, Ann Wiseman, revisits teachers from a CPD programme that took place 12 years earlier, to discover if Continuing Professional Development changes lives.

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