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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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Publication
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding teacher learning
Planning teacher learning

Group study guides for teachers

A collection of group study guides to help teachers work together on their professional development.

Article
Using inclusive practices

Building resilience

As we begin to look beyond the immediate world crisis, colleagues from the British Council’s Language for Resilience team tell us how their approach to building resilience for migrants can be applied to our work.