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.
From awareness raising to autonomy with Mooveez app
In this webinar recording, Martina Limburg invites you to come and learn more about the Mooveez application, winner of the 2016 ELTons award for Digital Innovation.
Using digital technologies
Supporting remote learning
Managing teacher learning
E-safety in and out of the young learner classroom
This webinar recording explores what is meant by e-safety and investigates why we, as teachers, should be concerned with it. The webinar includes activities to raise awareness in class and looks at how to approach digital tools in the best way with our young learners.
Little Bridge: The playful way to learn English!
An invitation to learn from the author about the world of Little Bridge, the award-winning English Language Learning website/platform that has caught the imagination of young learners around the world.
Understanding the educational context
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Planning teacher learning
On the way to success: higher standards, higher quality
In this webinar recording Svetlana Kandybovich looks at developing and testing professional standards in Montenegro based on the Teaching for Success model introduced within a three-year large-scale policy project.
InTILT with CLIL
This webinar looks at the creative use of web tools and digital environments to deliver successful learning outcomes.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Taking back time: how to do everything you want to do
Sandy Millin presents tried and tested ways of getting those things done which demand your time and attention, or which you just never quite get round to, helping you to manage yourself and others and make the most of your time.
Managing the lesson
Understanding the educational context
Teaching English in large classes – a sociocultural approach
In this webinar recording, Jason Anderson, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Local Innovation, explores how teachers of English working in large classes can develop local solutions to the challenges they face, by collaborating with colleagues in their school community and wider social environment.
Using digital technologies
Understanding the educational context
Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: putting teacher wisdom at the heart of mobile learning
In this webinar, the presenters discuss how mobile technologies support active learner participation and look at the ways teachers can be guided to design language learning tasks to engage learners both in, and beyond the classroom.
Building sustainability into an EAP course
In this webinar, we discuss Develop EAP: A Sustainable Academic English Skills Course, winner of the 2017 British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Learner Resources.
Using inclusive practices
Adopting inclusive practices
Teaching for all: how teacher educators can work with teachers to unlock learning potential in all our learners
In this webinar recording Phil Dexter presents some different models of inclusion and identifies the skills, knowledge and understanding that can equip teacher educators in working with teachers in creating more inclusive classrooms and schools.