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.
Planning lessons and courses
Engaging ears, eyes, brains and minds: Authentic listening at every level
Lewis Lansford, co-author of Keynote, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Excellence in Course Innovation, looks at how teachers can help students at every level to engage with authentic input. Using TED Talks, he’ll look at brain science related to listening and offer practical tips for creating success-oriented lessons at any level.
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Planning lessons and courses
Knowing the subject
Assessing learning
Assessment for learning
This article looks at the origin of assessment for learning or formative assessment, its principles and benefits and how it compares to assessment of learning.
Webinar
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding the educational context
Understanding teacher learning
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Alison Barrett - CPD: What’s the Starting Point for Change?
How can we become champions for change in challenging teaching contexts?
Webinar
Understanding teacher learning
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Andy Keedwell and Ruchi Jain - Supporting and developing teacher reflection
Andy Keedwell and Ruchi Jain detail ways that they have encouraged teacher educators to reflect on their teaching and training through face to face training and other CPD activities.
Understanding my context
Sadie Maddocks - An Education System that Works
In this talk, Sadie looks at different successful education systems and discusses what makes them work.
Megha Ahuja: Ensuring teacher training effectiveness through mentoring
Megha Ahuja presents a model implemented in two K-12 schools for supporting and mentoring teachers in order to achieve educational goals.
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding teacher learning
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Briony Beaven - Teacher stories
Briony Beaven explores the practice of telling stories of professional experience as a powerful form of development.
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding my context
Understanding the educational context
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Colin Bangay - Keeping it real. The starting point is where you are!
Colin Bangay looks at teacher education in resource constrained countries.
Svetlana Kandybovich - On the way to success: higher standards, higher quality
Svetlana Kandybovich outlines the main steps in developing and testing professional standards in Montenegro based on the Teaching for Success (TfS) framework.
Understanding teacher learning
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Tran Thi Hieu Thuy and Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong - Enhancing quality of reflection
Tran Thi Hieu Thuy and Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong look at how to facilitate teachers’ engagement in practising reflective activities.