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.
Negotiation of meaning
Negotiation of meaning is a process that speakers go through to reach a clear understanding of each other.
Neologisms
Neologisms are words or phrases that are invented to describe either new things or to give a new name to an old idea.
Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)
Neuro-linguistic Programming is based on a model of communication and psychotherapy.
Non-gradable adjectives
Non-gradable adjectives are adjectives that cannot be expressed in degrees and so cannot be graded.
Non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication is communication that does not involve a verbal element.
Norm-referenced test
A norm-referenced test measures a candidate’s mark against what other people are achieving in the same test.
Noticing
When learners "notice" new language, they pay special attention to its form, use and meaning.
Noun clause
A noun clause is a clause that is used in the same way as a noun or a pronoun.
Objective test
An objective test is a test that has right or wrong answers and so can be marked objectively.
Observation checklist
An observation checklist is a list of things that an observer is going to look at when observing a class.