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.
Team teaching
Team teaching is when two or more teachers plan to teach a class together for some reason, for a lesson, or more than a lesson.
Tense
A tense of a verb is a past or present form.
Test teach test
Test, teach, test (TTT) is an approach to teaching where learners first complete a task or activity without help from the teacher.
Thinking frames
Mario Rinvolucri uses the term ‘thinking frames’ to describe useful ways of thinking about what he does in the classroom.
Time lines
Time lines are diagrams used to represent the relationship between a verb tense and time.
Tone
Tone refers to the pitch changes made to affect the meaning of words and phrases.
Top down
Top-down processing of language happens when someone uses background information to predict the meaning of language they are going to listen to or read.
Topic sentence
The topic sentence is a sentence in a paragraph which shows what the paragraph is about and works as a summary of it.
TPR
TPR means Total Physical Response.
Transactional language
Transactional language is language which is used to make a transaction and which has a result.