Professional development

Professional development is vital for all. TeachingEnglish supports your growth in English language teaching, whether you are a teacher, teacher educator, academic manager, researcher or materials writer.

Here you will find free, self-access, online training and resources designed to develop the skills and knowledge you need as an English language professional.

Our professional development resources are organised by audience (teachers or teacher educators), professional practices and professional development level. The professional practices and professional development levels align with the British Council’s Continuing Professional Development Frameworks for teachers and teacher educators. These two unique frameworks, and the professional practices within them, address the skills and knowledge English language professionals need in their day-to-day working lives and throughout their careers.

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.

Mooveez: Teaching with feature films made easy

In this webinar recording, Martina Limburg Loučková presents the Mooveez app and explores various ways of learning and teaching English through films. The Mooveez app was winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Digital Innovation.

Leveraging technology to effectively teach English language in the mother tongue of the learner

In this webinar recording, winners of the ELTons award for Local Innovation show how their innovative technology, Mavis Talking Books, can be used to teach the English language using the mother tongue as the language of instruction.

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.

Teaching for all: how teacher educators can work with teachers to unlock learning potential in all our learners

In this webinar recording Phil Dexter presents some different models of inclusion and identifies the skills, knowledge and understanding that can equip teacher educators in working with teachers in creating more inclusive classrooms and schools.

NLP in our classes - methodology article

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.

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.

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