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Professional development for teachers

Here you’ll find a wide range of free, self-access training and resources designed to help you build the skills and knowledge you need as an English teacher.

All TeachingEnglish professional development resources are aligned with the British Council Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teachers, to help you plan your learning and develop the areas most relevant to your professional growth.

You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:
- by professional practices – to focus on specific areas of teaching 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.

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Article
Knowing the subject
Planning lessons and courses

How can I make sure my class is truly communicative?

This article explores the use of a tool called the Communicative score, which teachers can use to evaluate how communicative classroom activities really are.

A multilingual adult class with four learners
Using multilingual practices

Multilingual matters - mini event

Watch the recordings and download the handouts of four practical webinars with expert teachers on the theme of multilingualism in ELT. This event took place on February 15, 2024.

Two Sudanese women teachers working on a webinar together

Call for speakers 2024-5

TeachingEnglish is looking for expert teachers, teacher educators and other English language teaching professionals who would like to participate as speakers in our live events in 2024-25.