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.
Continuous assessment
Continuous assessment means assessing aspects of learners’ language throughout their course and then producing a final evaluation result from these assessments.
Controlled language
Controlled language is language that the teacher gives the class that is in some way changed to suit the level or the aims of the lesson.
Controlled practice
Controlled practice is a stage in a lesson where learners practise new language in a limited form.
Correction code
A correction code is used to show learners what kind of mistakes they have made in written work.
Counselling
Counselling is a teacher talking with a learner about their learning and advising them.
Countable
Countable nouns are nouns that can be preceded by a number and that have singular and plural forms.
Criterion-referenced test
A criterion-referenced test measures a candidate’s mark against a series of criteria and produces a description of level based on that criterion.
Critical period hypothesis
The critical period hypothesis says that there is a period of growth in which full native competence is possible when acquiring a language. This period is from early childhood to adolescence.
Cued Articulation
Cued Articulation [CA] was devised by Speech and Language Therapist Jane Passy in the late 1970s. It is an original system which uses simple hand cues to show where and how speech sounds are made.
Curriculum
A curriculum is a set of subjects for an educational institution, or a set of subjects within a course.