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.
Knowing the subject
Word stress
A language learner needs to engage with a word many times, preferably in different ways, in order to really learn it - identifying and practising word stress can provide one or two of those engagements.
Assessing learning
Test question types
In my previous article Test writing I looked at some of the difficulties of writing good tests and how to make tests more reliable and useful.
Assessing learning
Test writing
If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed quite a challenge and one that takes patience, experience and a degree of trial and error.
Knowing the subject
Using mind maps to develop writing
Mind maps can be used for a multitude of purposes. This article outlines how they can effectively be used to help support and develop students’ writing skills.
Knowing the subject
Connected speech – part 1
What is connected speech? Discover strategies for teaching pronunciation and helping learners understand weak forms.
Managing the lesson
Knowing the subject
Monitoring speaking
This article provides practical solutions to overcome the problems of monitoring speech in the classroom and ensure that we, as teachers, are providing valuable feedback to our learners to aid their communication skills.
Knowing the subject
Delexicalised verbs 2
In the first part of this article the writer explored the use of delexicalised verbs and the problems they create for our learners. He now goes on to outline some ways in which we can help our learners with this tricky area and help them to make their English sound more natural.
Knowing the subject
Delexicalised verbs
In the first part of this two part article Shaun Dowling looks at delexicalised verbs, and the problems they cause for our students.
Using digital technologies
Webquests
As more students gain access to the Internet, there is growing pressure on teachers to help their students use this valuable resource as an effective study tool.
Assessing learning
Testing and assessment
I will always remember the horror of receiving my chemistry result when I was thirteen years old. I knew it wasn’t going to be high, but to come bottom of the class was very upsetting.