Webinars
Stay up to date and inspired with our free webinars for English language teachers. Find upcoming live sessions, or catch up by watching recordings of webinars you’ve missed.
Our practical, interactive webinars are led by experienced teachers and teacher educators working in English language classrooms around the world. Each session is designed to provide classroom-ready ideas, fresh insights, and opportunities to connect with fellow teachers.
Reserve your free place by registering on Zoom. All participants who attend a live webinar will receive a certificate of attendance.
Exploiting digital video for language development
Get some new ideas on how to exploit digital video with your students in this webinar recording presented by ELTons award winning author, Nik Peachey.
E-safety in and out of the young learner classroom
This webinar recording explores what is meant by e-safety and investigates why we, as teachers, should be concerned with it. The webinar includes activities to raise awareness in class and looks at how to approach digital tools in the best way with our young learners.
Teaching English in large classes – a sociocultural approach
In this webinar recording, Jason Anderson, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Local Innovation, explores how teachers of English working in large classes can develop local solutions to the challenges they face, by collaborating with colleagues in their school community and wider social environment.
On the way to success: higher standards, higher quality
In this webinar recording Svetlana Kandybovich looks at developing and testing professional standards in Montenegro based on the Teaching for Success model introduced within a three-year large-scale policy project.
Keeping it real. The starting point is where you are!
Colin Bangay looks at teacher education in resource constrained countries.
Continuing professional development: what's the starting point for change?
Alison Barrett MBE explores the concept of continuing professional development frameworks and suggests practical ways for policymakers, head teachers, teacher trainers and teachers to improve professional development.
Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: putting teacher wisdom at the heart of mobile learning
In this webinar, the presenters discuss how mobile technologies support active learner participation and look at the ways teachers can be guided to design language learning tasks to engage learners both in, and beyond the classroom.
Secondary teacher training in the context of the refugee population in Palestine
Watch the recording of a webinar held on World Refugee Day (20 June) describing how the British Council’s Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching course is being used with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) trainers and teachers working with the refugee population in Palestine.
Engaging primary students through inquiry-based learning
Using examples from their new primary course Oxford Discover, co-authors Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina demonstrate in this webinar how inquiry-based learning stimulates curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking among students, encouraging learners to use their language skills in productive and meaningful ways.
InTILT with CLIL
This webinar looks at the creative use of web tools and digital environments to deliver successful learning outcomes.