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TeachingEnglish: Organising the classroom

Learn how to use boards and other classroom resources effectively. Develop strategies for promoting social language, starting and finishing lessons and managing different interaction patterns in class. This new course is open now – enrol until 24 March 2026.

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TeachingEnglish
Understanding
9–12 hours
Start: 07/01/26
End: 31/03/26
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How will the course help you?

By the end of Organising the classroom, you'll be able to:

  • use classroom boards confidently and creatively to enhance language learning
  • identify and implement effective strategies for classroom interaction, as well as for starting and ending lessons smoothly
  • plan and manage classroom interaction, physical space and resources to support a positive and engaging learning environment.

How can you enrol on the course?

Register for a free TeachingEnglish account or log in to your account.

Enrol on this free course

What does the course include?

  • Self-study modules that you can access at any time before the course closes
  • A certificate of achievement on successful completion of the self-study modules
  • 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

What are the self-study modules?

Module 1 – Understanding board work

The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of board work and how boards can be used effectively in the classroom. You will consider how to organise a board to help learning, think of solutions to common issues with boards as well as discuss how learners can be more involved at the board.

Module 2 – Social language in the classroom

The aim of this module is to explore how to develop and promote social language in class. It also considers effective strategies for starting and finishing lessons. You will identify elements and phrases that can be used to start a lesson, discuss how to promote social language using informal conversation as well as choose techniques to help learners to interact more confidently.

Module 3 – Managing interaction and resources

The aim of this module is to look at how to manage classrooms through interaction, and it also looks at resources to support learning. It explores a range of interaction patterns, including pair work and group work, and how to manage them. You will select interaction patterns based on activity type, use different ways of grouping in different classroom layouts as well as plan for the management of interaction, space and resources.

Do you have more questions?

Please see our FAQs or access further support through our Help button.

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Comments

Submitted by samalmakhmetova on Sat, 02/21/2026 - 09:37

Good day! I can not enroll to the courses? Why is that so? Or has the enrollment time finished already?

Hi samalmakhmetova

Thanks for your message. The course is still open for enrollment. Can you try clicking on the button again now?

If you are taken to the 'My courses' page, just click on the 'Enrol on free courses' button - then you will see a list of all our currently available courses and can click to enrol. Hope that helps -please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 02/23/2026 - 12:03

Hi Fatima79

You will receive a certificate of completion when you have successfully completed all three modules on the course. The certificate will appear under 'My awards - My certificates'. If you have any problems, please use the 'Help' button on the courses page.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Danteh on Tue, 02/17/2026 - 08:22

Hello, please does the certificate have a validity period, that is how long is it valid for.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 02/17/2026 - 10:13

HI Danteh

Thanks for your message. Our certificates don't have a validity period, they just include the date that you completed the course.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 02/03/2026 - 09:32

Hi there

The workbook is for you to work through yourself and to help you reflect on the course content- you don't need to submit it.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by SehrishM90 on Sun, 01/25/2026 - 09:37

how do i start the course?? what is the procedure

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 01/26/2026 - 10:07

Hi

To enrol on the course, click on the 'Enrol in this free course' button above. This will take you to our courses page - there you need to click/tap the 'Enrol in courses' button. Scroll down the page - you will see all our currently available courses. Then you just need to click to join this one. You can then access the modules and work through them in your own time.

Please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi mimu

Thanks for your comment - yes, this course is currently available. Click/tap the 'Enrol in this free course button'. This will take you to our courses platform - if you then click on 'Enrol in courses', you will see all our available courses and you can click to join the ones that you want - scroll down the page to see them all.

Hope that helps - please let me know if you need more guidance.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

The workbook is intended for independent study and reflection on the course content and does not need to be submitted

Submitted by XiaoYating on Wed, 01/21/2026 - 14:29

Hi and I'm interested in these courses. I hope I can be a good teacher by studying there.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Fri, 01/23/2026 - 11:32

Hi XiaoYating

Feel free to sign up - just click on the purple 'Enrol in this free course' button above.

Hope you enjoy the course,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi Mar1208

Thanks for your comment. 

To enrol in the course, click on the 'Enrol in this free course' button above. This will take you to our learning platform. Then click on 'Enrol on courses' - you will need to scroll down the page - this course is at the bottom - you can then click to enrol. Next time you log in this course will appear in 'My Portfolio - my courses' along with your other courses.

Hope that helps - please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi Rajdev

Thanks for your message - to register for the course, click on the purple button 'Enrol in this free course' above. This will take you to our courses platform. There, you can click/tap 'Enrol in courses'. You will see a list of all our currently available courses. You might need to scroll down the page to find this course. Then just click 'Enrol in activity'. From then on, the course will appear under 'My Portfolio - my courses' each time you log in to your TeachingEnglish account.

Hope that helps - you can also check our FAQs page for more information: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/courses/training-courses-faqs

Let us know if you are still having issues.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Thanks for your comment. We experienced a technical issue yesterday and some people were not able to access their courses - this is now resolved. Can you try again? If you are still having problems, please contact the technical team using the 'Help' button.

Thank you,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by minhhong_2609 on Sun, 01/18/2026 - 09:09

Hi, I was busy these days so I cannot keep in touch with the course. I have seen that the course have been opened in about a week ago, can I join it now ?
Many thanks.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 01/19/2026 - 09:51

Hi,

Yes, this course is now open! 

To access the modules, just click/tap 'My Porfolio - my courses' - you will see the course there if you are already enrolled. You can complete the modules in your own time.

Hope that helps,
Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 12/09/2025 - 11:16

Hi Sousam

Thanks for your message.

This new course opens on 7 January. You can enrol now by clicking on the purple button above. Then when you click on 'My Portfolio - my courses' you will see the course on the 'closed' tab. On January 7th you will be able to access the course modules. 

Hope that helps, and hope you enjoy the course when it starts!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

HI sheroo

To join this course, you just need to click the 'Click to join this free course' button above. That will take you to our courses page where you can click to enrol and then access the modules.

Hope you enjoy it!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Hananh_Rossanlix on Thu, 10/30/2025 - 13:21

It was really helpful.

Submitted by Anne Lennon on Wed, 08/13/2025 - 16:40

Hi and I'm glad you are interested in courses. Have a look at the courses page. There's a video to explain about them and if you scroll down you can see the courses open now and get information about registering an account  and enrolling on a course. 

Best regards,

Anne

TeachingEnglish team
 

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/courses

Submitted by Asmaa_Elsayed_Omar on Wed, 08/13/2025 - 14:09

I would like to begin registering for the course to obtain the certificate. What are the procedures?

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Thu, 01/29/2026 - 10:07

Hi @Englishteacher

All of our free courses are self-access - so you can enrol and then complete the modules in your own time. Once you have completed all the modules in the course, your certificate will appear under the 'My awards - my certificates' tab under 'My Portfolio'.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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