Professional development for teacher educators

This section is for teacher educators, that is, anyone who supports the professional development of pre-service or practising teachers. You may do this in many ways: delivering training and tutoring on qualification courses, supervising or mentoring teachers, conducting research, leading professional development in schools, moderating online programmes or facilitating teacher communities.

Whichever role or setting your work in, TeachingEnglish can support you with your professional and career development. Our support is open to all and free of charge.

One of the main tools we use is the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teacher educators. In this section you can explore the framework as well as other useful resources for teacher educators, such as courses, webinars, self-assessment tools, how-to guides and resource pack.

You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:

by professional practices, to focus on specific areas of teacher education where you want to deepen your skills and expertise
by professional development levels, to find resources matched to your training and experience and see how they can help you progress within each area.

Each resource includes a timer icon to show how much time you'll need, helping you plan your learning effectively.

Observation and Feedback: Why is it so important that we get them right?

How can we ensure that teacher evaluations are viewed by all participants (including observers, teachers and their learners) in a more positive light?

Mentoring teachers and trainers: a recipe for successful programmes

In this webinar recording, Nelson Arditto and Nora Touparlaki explore ways of making mentoring programmes successful.

A smiling teacher sitting at a desk with a learner pointing at areas of the workbook

Research mentoring for teacher educators

In this webinar we discuss the recent increased interest in teacher research engagement by English language teachers and the need for teacher research mentoring that can and should be offered to teachers.

Two Spanish female teachers sitting at a table and talking

Webinar for teacher educators: Noticing in mentoring – what do we do with what we notice?

This webinar is aimed at teacher educators who are involved in mentoring colleagues. The presenter, Doina Fleanta, explores the skill of 'noticing'.

How to be a trainer

In this article Tessa Woodward explores ways to keep on developing as a teacher trainer and looks at how and why we should try to improve our training repertoire.

Creating creative teachers

In this extract Marisa Constantinides presents activities to develop teachers' creative thinking skills.

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Non-gendered language: how to teach it, should we teach it?

This webinar recording examines gender-neutral language and discusses why the teaching of gender-neutral language should be an important element of the ELT classroom. It also provides practical examples as to how teachers can integrate teaching of this aspect into their own syllabuses.