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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.

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Article
Planning lessons and courses
Understanding my learners

Your learners as a resource

Cecilia Nobre explains why your learners can be your most valuable teaching resource and how to include more learner-generated content in your classes.

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Pathway
Knowing the subject

Pathways: Knowing the subject

Develop your knowledge of the English language and how to teach it with this ready-made pathway of resources for English teachers.

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Professional development for teachers

World Teachers' Day 2024 Thursday 3 October

Thursday 3rd October was the first day of our three-day World Teachers’ Day 2024 conference. Watch recordings of the opening plenary from Michael Connolly, Director of English and School Education, as well as five interactive webinars from expert teachers from around the world. 

 

World Teachers' Day 2024 Friday 4 October

Friday 4 October 2024 was the second day of our World Teachers’ Day conference 2024. Watch recordings of the plenary from Aleksandra Popovski, the current IATEFL president, and five interactive webinars with expert teachers from all over the world.

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Understanding my professional identity

World Teachers' Day 2024 Saturday 5 October

Saturday 5 October 2024 was the third and last day of our World Teachers’ Day conference. Watch the recordings here of interactive webinars with expert teachers from all over the world, and a closing plenary session from two of our Courses for Teachers Facebook tutors.

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Course closed
Course
CEFR level Awareness
Duration 9–12 hours
Course duration 9–12 hours
Planning lessons and courses
Using digital technologies

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 is 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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Planning lessons and courses
Knowing the subject

Teaching the four skills – mini-event

Watch the recordings of practical sessions focusing on how to teach reading, writing, speaking and listening in the English language classroom.

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Using digital technologies

AI for learning – mini-event

Watch the recordings of three practical sessions on using AI for personalised, creative and engaging learning. 

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Using digital technologies

Multimodal classrooms – mini-event

Watch the recordings of two webinars and a panel discussion with experts in using different modes of communication for effective and engaging language learning.