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.
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.
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?
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.
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Loraine Kennedy: Developing as a manager
Understanding the educational context
Understanding teacher learning
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Fiona Dunlop: Integrating new teachers into an experienced staffroom – pleasure or pain
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.
Evaluating teacher competence
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Gillian Davidson: Observation and your teaching staff
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.
Understanding the educational context
Adopting inclusive practices
David Crabtree: Developing a whole school approach to Special Educational Needs, from policy to practice
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.