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.

Total physical response - TPR

This is an introduction to the teaching approach known as total physical response.

Role-play

In this article I will outline several reasons for using role-play in the classroom and I will offer some tips for getting the most out of roleplay.

Collocation with advanced levels 1 - not entirely...proper/appropriate/good?

This article gives an overview of the topic of collocation in English language teaching and shows how this is a key area of study for advanced level students.

Making listening an authentic experience

Find out how to use an authentic approach to develop your learners’ listening skills and help them to understand spoken English in real-world situations.

Motivating teenagers

"Motivation is as much an effect as a cause of learning." Ausubel

In this article I will discuss how teachers can aim to improve the motivation levels of teenage students.

Intercultural learning 2

This is the second of two articles that deal with the topic of intercultural awareness and learning. The first article - Intercultural learning 1 - sets out the methodological background to this topic, and this, the second article, offers practical suggestions for the classroom.

Intercultural learning 1

This is the first of two articles that deal with the topic of intercultural awareness and learning. This article sets out the methodological background to this topic, and the second article - Intercultural learning 2 - offers practical suggestions for the classroom.

Find the gap - increasing speaking in class - speaking article

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