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.

Learner in Egypt doing a language exercise at a desk

Transformation exercise

A transformation exercise is an exercise where learners are given one sentence and need to complete a second sentence so that it means the same.

Student in Portugal speaking with her teacher

Turn-taking

A turn is the time when a speaker is talking and turn-taking is the skill of knowing when to start and finish a turn in a conversation.

A student speaking in a library

Unvoiced consonants

Unvoiced consonants are consonant sounds that are made without vibrating the vocal chords.

Students sitting at desks taking a test in classroom in India

Validity

A test’s validity refers to how good it is.

Male teacher in South Korea showing a picture book to learners

Visual aid

Visual aids can be defined in two ways: as a picture or a diagram you show learners to help their understanding, or in a broader sense as anything you show learners in a classroom to do this.

Group of learners organising cards on a desk

Visual/spatial intelligence

Visual/spatial intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.

A teacher sitting with a young learner in classroom in Colombia

Vocabulary bank

A vocabulary bank is a collection of new words and phrases that the learner or class builds up as they learn

Two students in Qatar classroom practising speaking

Voiced consonants

Voiced consonants are consonant sounds that are made by vibrating the vocal chords.