Training courses

Take part in a variety of free training courses on our teacher development platform. Explore a range of topics, from assessing learners to planning a great lesson. Study at your own pace and join our Facebook community to share your learning with other teachers and get feedback and guidance from our experienced tutors.

Find out about all our courses running from April 2024 - March 2025 by downloading our training courses calendar.

Building understanding through dialogue

Create positive relationships and effective communication in your classroom by exploring techniques to develop empathy, critical thinking and intercultural competence. Enrolment for Building understanding through dialogue will open soon.

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TeachingEnglish: How to teach writing

Improve your learners' writing skills by exploring the sub skills that make good writers and ways of developing them in the classroom. Enrolment for TeachingEnglish: How to teach writing will open soon.

TeachingEnglish: Key digital skills

Develop beginner digital skills and learn how to use documents, worksheets, search, presentations and videoconferencing to enhance your teaching. Enrolment for 'Key digital skills' will open soon.

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TeachingEnglish: How to teach pronunciation

Increase your understanding of phonology and your ability to support learners with effective pronunciation activities in the classroom. Enrolment for 'How to teach pronunciation' will open soon.

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TeachingEnglish: Assessing learning

Help all your learners benefit from and get actively involved in assessment in the language classroom. Enrolment for 'TeachingEnglish: Assessing learning' will open soon.

Climate action in language education

Learn to integrate environmental issues in English language teaching and develop the skills you need to take and sustain meaningful and impactful action to protect the environment in your local context. Enrolment for 'Climate action in language education' will open soon.

TeachingEnglish: How to teach reading

Give your learners' reading skills a boost by increasing your understanding of what effective readers do and how to develop these skills with engaging classroom activities. Enrolment for 'How to teach reading' will open soon.

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Focus on professional development

Enrolment for 'Focus on professional development' is now closed. Find resources connected to the course contents on this page, and sign up for our newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.

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English in the multilingual classroom

Enrolment for 'English in the multilingual classroom' is now closed. Find resources connected to the course contents on this page, and sign up for our newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.

Research and insight

Browse fascinating case studies, research papers, publications and books by researchers and ELT experts from around the world.

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