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TeachingEnglish: How to teach online

Develop the skills to help your learners succeed in remote learning by reflecting on effective strategies for planning engaging activities, fostering interaction and managing remote classrooms.

Enrolment for How to teach online is closed. Sign up for our newsletter, and we’ll keep you updated when enrolment will open next. In the meantime, if you’re interested in learning more about How to teach online, you can view helpful resources here.

What resources can you access at any time?

  • A free workbook with extra learning content and resources connected to the course contents
  • A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative teaching ideas for you to try out (Facebook account required)
  • Learning content related to our courses on Facebook and YouTube
  • Live events and recordings with course tutors and language teaching experts on Facebook and YouTube
  • Teaching resources on the TeachingEnglish website
  • Sign up for our newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open

What are the self-study modules in How to teach online?

Module 1 – Understanding remote teaching

The aim of this module is to help you to think about what’s needed to begin remote teaching. It looks at what remote teaching is and how it can be different in different contexts. It also looks at the importance of developing remote teaching skills, and how to include them in your teaching.

Module 2 – Planning and adapting materials

In this module you’ll look at how to plan lessons for remote learning. You’ll also look at how to adapt the activities in your coursebook so that they will work well in the remote classroom.

Module 3 – Managing remote learning

This module looks at classroom management. It helps you to think about how to use the tools of the remote classroom to manage your learners. It also explores how to manage your own wellbeing, in the final unit.

Course reviews

What have other teachers said about how How to teach online helped them?

"I have used many of the practical ideas (cloze activity, use of the chat) and the recommendations for taking care of ourselves. Awesome!"

Course participant, Uruguay

"Well, after taking this course my online teaching classes have been positively modified. For instance, teaching writing was quite challenging for me, but now it’s fun and more exciting. The advantages of this course are numerous."

Course participant, Afghanistan

"I am looking forward to encouraging my students to create digital portfolios so that they can see their progress over time and share their work with others. I would also like to help them develop more specific listening and reading skills, using the suggested activities."

Course participant, Spain

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Hello. Could you tell me please if you are planning to launch this course again?

Hi Olga,

I am afraid we do not have plans to run this course soon. If you have questions about teaching remotely you can ask in our Facebook community you can also find useful resources in the Workbook that is available on this page.

Best of luck,

Kirsteen

Hello,
I would like to know when the course will be available again as I would like to enroll as soon as possible.

Hi @ashgan123, I am sorry but we don’t have a date yet because the courses are planned up to March 2024. It will be announced on the training page when it’s on again https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training.

Best regards,

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

I have completed my course. Please, generate my certificate.

Hi,

If you have successfully completed the course, you can find your certificate by logging onto the course platform as usual, then click on the "My awards" tab and then on "My certificates". You can then download the PDF.

Louise

Thank you for providing this opportunity to English Teachers about what it takes to teach online.
Regards,

Blessed Adjekpagbon

I am enroll in this course but i haven't yet completed it . if i complete it , can I still get my certificate?

Hi Faseeha

This course is now closed. I’m afraid the content is no longer available so you won’t be able to complete the course. It’s important to check the start and end dates of the courses when you enrol. We hope to run the course again in the future.  You can keep up to date with all of our latest training, events and news by subscribing to our newsletter here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Can I have the official hard copy of this certificate from BC? Or I just only download it from "My Awards"? Thank you

Hi Ms Jin

Yes, you need to download the certificate from "My awards" and then you can print it out.

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

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Please generate my certificate I have completed my Courae

Hi Uroosa Amir

If you have successfully completed the course your certificate should appear under the "My awards" tab on the courses platform. If it isn’t there, can you use the orange "help" button on the bottom right of the screen to report this to the courses team directly? Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hello
I have completed this course a couple of days ago but there is no certification yet.

Hi SaharAtashbar

If you have successfully completed the course your certificate should appear under the "My awards" tab on the courses platform. If it isn’t there, can you use the orange "help" button on the bottom right of the screen to report this to the courses team directly? Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi! , I can't register for the ccourse?

Hi karteza89

Have you clicked on the instructions under "How do I register for the course?" You need to be logged in to a TeachingEnglish account and then you can click on the enrol button (under Step 2).

Please let us know if you are still having problems.
 

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Good afternoon, I Logged in, but i cant register for online course, How can I do

Dear group facilitator and all course members,
Greetings
Thank you very much to add me for such a nice course. I know I will learn a lot. Icouldn't join FB introduction chat because I dont use FB anymore nut I will be active in every other forum.
Thanks again
Shahnaz Khalid

I can’t find My portfolio icon in my account

Thank you for allowing me to be part of the course I am enrolled now.

I didn’t see the menu of my course

Hi Nila

Once you are enrolled on the course you can access the content by clicking on the "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses" tab at the top of the page. You need to be logged in to your TeachingEnglish account.

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

I have just finished Unit 1. I can't seem to find the path to Unit 2.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Hi delmondo

You should be able to navigate easily through each module just by using the forward arrows. You can find the start of each module on the courses homepage when you click on "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses".

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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Dear, sir

I am unable to access my courses, can you please help me with some keys to access them easily.

Regards
Dipu

Hi Dipu

I’ve just checked your account and can see that you are successfully enrolled. So to access the course, you need to firstly log in to your TeachingEnglish account, then click on the "MY PORTFOLIO- My courses" tab at the top left of the screen. This will take you to the courses platform where you can continue with your course.

If you are taken back to your profile page when you click on "MY PORTFOLIO" you need to log out of your account, clear the cache on your browser and then log back in.

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Thank for your efforts

Dear, sir

I always find problem in accessing my courses, can you give some keys to access them easily.

A trainee
Hussam Khomais.

Hi Hussam

Sorry to hear you are having problems accessing your courses. These instructions should help:

IMPORTANT: If you didn’t log out of TeachingEnglish after your previous visit, do this first.

From your desktop or laptop computer

  1. Log in to your free TeachingEnglish account.
  2. If you have enrolled in the course, you will see 'MY PORTFOLIO’ in the menu bar at the top of the page next to the Home button.
  3. Move your mouse over MY PORTFOLIO to see the drop-down menu.
  4. Click on ‘My courses’ to access your training.

From your mobile device

  1. Log in to your free TeachingEnglish account.
  2. Tap the three horizontal lines next to the home button to open the menu.
  3. Below ‘Home’, you will see MY PORTFOLIO and ‘My courses’ below. Tap on MY PORTFOLIO if you don’t see ‘My courses’.
  4. Tap on ‘My courses’ to access your training

Remember that if you are having problems, a good first step is to log out of your TeachingEnglish account and then log back in again.

If you are still having problems, please write to us at TeachingEnglish@britishcouncil.org and give us more details so that we can help you.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

i hope i can enroll that course

Hi

To enrol on the course, you just need to follow the 2-step instructions above under "How do I register for the course?"

The course starts on 4th July. Please let us know if you have any problems registering.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

How can I study for this course? Where can I find the materials and what are the tasks?

Hi Rania

If you are already enrolled in the course then you will be able to access the material from 4th July, when the course starts.

To do that, you need to be logged into your TeachingEnglish account, and then click on the "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses" tab - this will take you to the courses platform where you will work through the activities. It is a self-access course, so you just need to follow the instructions on the screen.

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Thank you for providing such a great opportunity.