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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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.

A creative approach to language teaching. A way to recognise, encourage and appreciate students' contributions to language classes

In this extract, Libor Stepanek presents 'The creative approach to language teaching’, which has been developed, tested and successfully implemented at Masaryk University Language Centre.

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Integrating English into pre-primary education: the use of learning areas

This webinar looks at the teaching of English as a Foreign language in pre-primary education and shares the results of a project which investigated the effectiveness of incorporating an English learning area into the children’s play options.

How to develop a more creative climate in your classroom

Alan Maley suggests some excellent ideas for how to set up the conditions in the classroom in order to enhance creativity.

Ideas for using the coursebook creatively

In this extract, Brian Tomlinson looks at why we should be creative with our coursebook and suggests some interesting ideas for teachers to experiment with in class.

Creative ways to teach vocabulary

In this extract Judit Fehér gives tips to teachers on how to integrate creativity into everyday classroom practice.

Diana Lea: Why use an EAP dictionary?

Diana Lea, Editor of the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English, shows how the award-winning Dictionary of Academic English can support learners in reading academic texts and in using core academic vocabulary accurately and appropriately in their writing.

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