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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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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest single unit of language that has meaning.

Multilingual

A multilingual class is a class where the learners speak a variety of first languages.

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Multiple choice

Multiple choice items are questions that require learners to choose the best response from a group of answers.

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Multiple intelligence

Multiple Intelligence Theory says that there are at least eight different kinds of intelligence, and that human beings possess all of them to different degrees.

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Musical intelligence

Musical intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.

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Narrative tenses

Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past.

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Natural order

The natural order hypothesis is the idea that children learning their first language acquire grammatical structures in a pre-determined, 'natural’ order, and that some are acquired earlier than others.

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Naturalistic intelligence

Naturalistic intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory, although not as widely accepted as other types.

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Needs analysis

Needs analysis involves doing some kind of activity with a learner in order to find out what their learning needs are.