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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.

Teacher in Mozambique classroom laughing with students

Proclaiming tone

A proclaiming tone is an intonation pattern that either rises and then falls, or just falls.

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Product-oriented syllabus

A product-oriented syllabus focuses on things learnt at the end of the learning process (outcomes) rather than the process itself.

Adults learners speaking in a classroom

Productive skills

The productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language.

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Proficiency test

A proficiency test measures a learner’s level of language.

Young learners in South Korea working on a project together

Project work

Project work is work which focuses on completing a task.

Young learners in Vietnam using dice in the classroom

Prompts

Prompts are stimuli a teacher uses to get learners to give a response using target language.

Two spanish students speaking together

Prosodic features

Prosodic features are features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech.

A group of students having a discussion together

Pyramid discussion

A pyramid discussion is a speaking activity where learners form progressively larger groups as they carry out a speaking task, which normally requires each grouping to reach agreement before joining another group.

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Quantifier

Quantifiers are words put before nouns to show how many there are.