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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. 

 

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Agnes Enyedi: How to avoid teacher burnout

This webinar looks into the background of burnout and shares some teachers’ ideas about how to stay away from it.

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Understanding my professional identity
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Planning teacher learning
Contributing to the profession

Teacher-research as CPD, in practice

Watch a recording of this webinar looking at practical ways to set up and implement teacher research. 

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What Lies Beyond? CPD with Lasting Impact

Watch a recording of this webinar looking at what trainers can do to make sure teacher development, whether face-to-face or online, can keep on sparking inspiration and enabling appropriate, practical change. 

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Innovations in the Continuing Professional Development of English Language Teachers
Taking responsibility for your own professional development

Differentiated Professional Development – promoting and experiencing it: a blog post by Isabela Villas Boas

In this article about writing a chapter for the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’ we hear from Isabela Villas Boas who talks about her own experience of continuing professional development through contributing to the book.

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Understanding teacher learning
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Lessons from India - practical issues

This article presents an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, A Padwad and K Dixit, outline practical issues they discovered during their innovative think tank project.

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Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Planning teacher learning
Understanding teacher learning

Teacher-research as continuing professional development

This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, R Smith, T Connelly and P Rebolledo, explore teacher-research as continuing professional development.

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What are some of the challenges to continuing professional development?

This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the author, Russell Stannard, looks at potential barriers to Continuing Professional Development and suggests technology might be one answer.

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Can continuing professional development change lives?

This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the author, Ann Wiseman, revisits teachers from a CPD programme that took place 12 years earlier, to discover if Continuing Professional Development changes lives.

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What is ‘continuing professional development’?

What does continuing professional development mean for English teachers? Explore innovation, lifelong learning and the challenges shaping professional growth.
 
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Professional development video: organising appraisals

In these two videos, Dan Humm Soriano and Loraine Kennedy discuss how appraisals are organised where they work.

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Teaching speaking skills – webinars

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Why subject knowledge matters when supporting teachers – webinar

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