A teacher praises her student

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.

Understanding my learners

Sociocultural awareness in ELT

The sociocultural element in learning is particularly sensitive in EFL because in acquiring a language there is, to some extent, an appropriation of a cultural identity too.

Coloured Post-it notes stuck to a whiteboard
Understanding my learners

Thinking frames 2: Logical Levels

In this series of articles I want to explore with you a number of different filters you can fix onto the lens of your thinking camera.

Knowing the subject

The noun phrase

For too long now the verb phrase has been the dominant focus of attention in course books, syllabuses, and teacher training programmes.

Concordancers in ELT - resources article
Knowing the subject

Concordancers in ELT

Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in the power and abilities of computers to digitise, store and analyse text.

Black female teacher standing in front of board covered in sticky notes and diagrams
Knowing the subject

Timelines

The language used by teachers to explain time reference can be confusing for learners. Timelines are neat devices that can be used to clarify our teaching language and help learners understand complex concepts.  

Coloured Post-it notes stuck to a whiteboard
Understanding my learners

Thinking frames

In this article I want to share with you a major thinking frame, that has been of great use to me in my teaching and that comes from the work of Antoine de la Garanderie, a major French pedagogical thinker.

Managing the lesson

Encouraging peer response

Some time ago, I wrote an article about different ways responding to your students’ written work. This present article builds on those ideas and gives suggestions for how students can respond to each other’s writings.

Using digital technologies

Blogging for ELT

This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool.