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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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Using digital technologies
Supporting remote learning
Managing teacher learning

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. 

Building sustainability into an EAP course

In this webinar, we discuss Develop EAP: A Sustainable Academic English Skills Course, winner of the 2017 British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Learner Resources.

Understanding my professional identity
Contributing to the profession

Where next for teacher-research? Panel discussion

In this webinar panel discussion, we look at the future of teacher research. To mark the end of the International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT, a panel of invited guests discuss further possible enhancements of the teacher-research movement.

Understanding teacher learning

Thinking skills are life skills

All teachers want their students to be successful but are we including thinking skills, that will become life skills, with the four skills we are most comfortable teaching? 

Young learner testing - methodology article

InTILT with CLIL

This webinar looks at the creative use of web tools and digital environments to deliver successful learning outcomes.

Teaching Shakespeare to language learners

Dr. Chris Lima discusses the ways of teaching Shakespeare to English language learners in order to make them familiar with his plays while improving their vocabulary and language skills.

NLP in our classes - methodology article
Using 21C skills or core skills

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.

Taking responsibility for your own professional development

Taking back time: how to do everything you want to do

Sandy Millin presents tried and tested ways of getting those things done which demand your time and attention, or which you just never quite get round to, helping you to manage yourself and others and make the most of your time.