Professional development for teacher educators
This section is for teacher educators, that is, anyone who supports the professional development of pre-service or practising teachers. You may do this in many ways: delivering training and tutoring on qualification courses, supervising or mentoring teachers, conducting research, leading professional development in schools, moderating online programmes or facilitating teacher communities.
Whichever role or setting you work in, TeachingEnglish can support you with your professional and career development. Our support is open to all and free of charge.
One of the main tools we use is the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teacher educators. In this section you can explore the framework as well as other useful resources for teacher educators, such as courses, webinars, self-assessment tools, how-to guides and resource pack.
You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:
by professional practices, to focus on specific areas of teacher education 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.
Managing teacher learning
Planning teacher learning
Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: Case studies
This article examines two teacher education scenarios, and suggested learning resources for each.
Managing teacher learning
Knowing the subject
Marisa Constantinides: Creating Creative Teachers
This webinar focuses on helping teachers, rather than learners, with developing their own creative thinking skills so that they, in turn can do a great job with their learners. There are useful ideas for teacher educators and teachers.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness
Tessa Woodward gives an introduction to teacher educator self-awareness and suggests some practical ways we can develop it.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness: Cultivating openness
In this article Tessa Woodward explores openness as a feature of self-awareness and provides ideas on how to work on our ability to be open.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness: Conscientiousness
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of conscientiousness as a feature of self-awareness.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness: Interactivity
In this article Tessa Woodward discusses interactivity, defined as our capacity to seek communication and engagement with each other and to create environments that foster successful communication.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness: Empathy
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of empathy as a feature of self-awareness.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Contributing to the profession
Teacher educator self-awareness: Resilience
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of resilience as a feature of self-awareness.
Contributing to the profession
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Networking: a few simple steps
Kirsten Holt discusses three key stages to networking through a series of simple steps and tips to help the uninitiated develop their networking skills.
Understanding my professional identity
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?
Experienced teachers sometimes ask themselves the question, 'Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?'