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.
Webinar
Using multilingual practices
Five on 5: Constructing the multilingual mindset
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day on 5 October, Maria Norton presents Constructing the Multilingual Mindset, a 1-hour webinar for teachers, teacher educators and school leaders.
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Managing the lesson
Creating a positive learning environment
Discover strategies for creating a positive learning environment with this self-access development resource.
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Using inclusive practices
Understanding and engaging with neurodiversity
Develop your understanding of using inclusive practices in the classroom by examining the concept of diversity and inclusion.
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Coaching and Emotional Intelligence - Webinar with Nik Peachey
In this webinar, to celebrate the launch of the British Council’s Teacher Educator Online Community, Nik Peachey explores coaching techniques for teacher development.
Using inclusive practices
Language for resilience: World refugee day
This webinar looks at the topic of languages education and resilience.
Planning lessons and courses
Effective use of video in the ELT classroom
This webinar explores video, and the many errors and examples of poor practice which should be avoided.
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Assessing learning
Strategies for written feedback
Develop effective feedback strategies for students’ writing with our self-access training or downloadable resources for the training room.
Using digital technologies
Using voice and AI assistants for language learning
Joshua Underwood talks about how voice-driven artificial intelligence assistants can be used in language learning.
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Using inclusive practices
What is inclusion and how do we implement it?
We all seem to talking about inclusion and the importance of it.
Understanding my professional identity
Evaluating teacher competence
Planning teacher learning
Simon Borg - Teacher evaluation in ELT
In this webinar Simon Borg discusses the importance of teacher evaluation and ways of designing teacher evaluation systems that support teacher development.