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    Here you can find a wide range of practical resources to use in the English language classroom, whether you’re teaching primary, secondary, or adult students. There are over 400 full lesson plans to choose from, covering different topics and themes and organised according to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).

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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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From awareness raising to autonomy with Mooveez app

In this webinar recording, Martina Limburg invites you to come and learn more about the Mooveez application, winner of the 2016 ELTons award for Digital Innovation.

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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? 

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Little Bridge: The playful way to learn English!

An invitation to learn from the author about the world of Little Bridge, the award-winning English Language Learning website/platform that has caught the imagination of young learners around the world.

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Taking responsibility for your own professional development

Loraine Kennedy: Developing as a manager

In this webinar, Loraine Kennedy, ELT Consultant, discusses the topic of 'Developing as a manager’. 
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Understanding the educational context
Understanding teacher learning
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

Fiona Dunlop: Integrating new teachers into an experienced staffroom – pleasure or pain

This workshop addresses the gulf between teaching practice as part of a pre-service course and the reality of teaching a full timetable and additional administrative tasks.
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Evaluating teacher competence
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

Loraine Kennedy: Coaching and mentoring skills for ELT

Whether you are a teacher, a teacher trainer or an ELT manager, this highly relevant session provides a summary of both coaching and mentoring skills, which can be used to help people achieve their language learning goals, professional development objectives, and/or career ambitions.

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Evaluating teacher competence
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

Gillian Davidson: Observation and your teaching staff

This talk looks at ways of building a system of observations that actively contributes to the development of your teachers.
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Understanding teacher learning
Evaluating teacher competence
Planning teacher learning

Richard Rossner - Assessing language teaching competences: the potential of the European Profiling Grid

This webinar outlines the background and aims of the European Profiling Grid (EPG) and looks at how practising teachers and teacher educators of any language can assess competences in order to identify areas to develop further. 

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Understanding the educational context
Adopting inclusive practices

David Crabtree: Developing a whole school approach to Special Educational Needs, from policy to practice

Given the breadth of learning needs in any classroom, how can schools best develop policies and practice to respond to this diversity? This webinar demonstrates how to develop a whole school approach to SEN, from policy to practice.
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Taking responsibility for your own professional development

Duncan Foord: Letting go

In this practical webinar we consider some of the psychological blocks and beliefs that stop us delegating in the first place and some tools for supporting successful delegation once you are committed to it.

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Teaching speaking skills – webinars

Join us on 18 September 2026 for two webinars full of tips and practical activities to help your learners develop their spoken English.

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Why subject knowledge matters when supporting teachers – webinar

Join us on 16 September 2026 to explore how teacher educators can support teachers’ subject knowledge development in English language teaching.

Supporting ongoing teacher professional development

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