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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.

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Polysemy

Polysemy refers to the quality of some words having several related meanings.

Young learners with a teacher looking at magazines

Portfolio

A portfolio is a collection of work prepared, maintained and developed by a learner.

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PPP

PPP is a paradigm or model used to describe typical stages of a presentation of new language.

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Pre-listening

Pre-listening activities are things learners do before a listening activity in order to prepare for listening.

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Pre-teaching

Pre-teaching is the teaching of the language learners need before an activity.

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Prediction

Prediction is an activity learners carry out before reading or listening to a text, where they predict what they are going to hear or read.

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Preposition

A preposition is a word that connects a noun, pronoun or noun phrase to other parts of a clause.

Students in Saudi Arabia looking at a textbook

Prescriptive grammar

A prescriptive grammar is a set of rules about language based on how people think language should be used.

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Prior knowledge

Prior knowledge is the knowledge the learner already has before they meet new information.

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Process writing

Process writing focuses learners on the different stages and aspects of writing as they have been observed in good writers, and spend time on each, led by the teacher.