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.
Gillian Davidson: Promoting CPD in your schools
What is CPD? How can we create a culture of development in your school – this talk will look at how to establish a culture of CPD in your school, how to support your teachers’ learning goals and how to tailor the CPD programme to your teachers’ needs.
Loraine Kennedy: Developing as a manager
Integrating English into pre-primary education: the use of learning areas
This webinar looks at the teaching of English as a Foreign language in pre-primary education and shares the results of a project which investigated the effectiveness of incorporating an English learning area into the children’s play options.
Diana Lea: Why use an EAP dictionary?
Diana Lea, Editor of the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English, shows how the award-winning Dictionary of Academic English can support learners in reading academic texts and in using core academic vocabulary accurately and appropriately in their writing.
Judit Kormos and Joanna Nijakowska: Successful inclusion for dyslexic students in the English language classroom
Dyslexic language learners have been long neglected in the field of language teaching despite the fact they constitute about ten percent of the student population. This webinar shares practical ideas from the award-winning DysTEFL project.
Els Van Geyte: Life after IELTS - helping students to meet academic (writing) expectations
This webinar suggests how tutors can help international students who are entering Higher Education, to develop their academic writing skills, by focusing on reader expectation and on academic requirements and principles.
Katerina Kourkouli: Setting up communities of practice
The purpose of this webinar is to raise participants’ awareness of the steps and constraints in setting up online Communities of Practice for EFL teachers.
Watch, learn, practise: video based CPD and collaboration
This webinar explores how to use the British Council’s extensive resource bank of recorded talks and seminars for practical Continuing Professional Development and teacher training.
Andy Hockley: How to move into language school management
This webinar looks at starting the transition from teacher to manager - including reasons why you might think about making that move, ways of developing to prepare yourself to take on new responsibilities, and issues that you might want to be aware of.
Fiona Dunlop: Managing your teaching staff – how to keep a staff motivated, challenged and developing professionally
In this session Fiona Dunlop explores ways of identifying what motivates the teachers you manage and how to encourage them to take ownership of their CPD in a way that will benefit not only the teacher but the organisation too. The session covers areas such as developmental observation techniques and focussed action research for teachers.