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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.

Class round-up

A class round-up is an activity where the teacher and learners summarise what they have been doing during the class.

Young learners interviewing each other in class

Class survey

A class survey is an activity where all the learners in the group need to ask each other questions to find information, which they then need to analyze and report back to the class.

Spanish learners laughing in the classroom

Class-centred teaching

The term class-centred teaching draws attention to the importance of behaving in ways that encourage classes to develop into cohesive groups.

Young learners in classroom with toys and learning aids

Classroom management

Classroom management refers to the decisions a teacher makes regarding the physical environment and resources available to them, including furniture, resources, learners and themselves.

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Clause

A clause is a phrase that contains a verb and normally a subject.

A woman writing a sentence on a notepad

Cleft sentence

A cleft sentence is made by separating a single clause into two clauses, one main and one subordinate.

Two students in a CLIL science lesson in Pakistan

CLIL

Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, is where a subject is taught in the target language rather than the first language of the learners.

four people holding emoticons over their faces

Cline

A cline is a scale of language items that goes from one extreme to another, for example, from positive to negative.

Someone typing at a keyboard

Clipping

Clipping is one of the ways new words are created in English.

Student in Italy doing a test

Cloze

A cloze is a practice exercise where learners have to replace words missing from a text.